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peace and reconciliation be-
tween Israel and Egypt and
the other Arab countries
through face-to-face nego-
tiations."
The resolution said, "We
urge our government not to
be deterred from its recon-
ciling role as peace-maker
by those who .would repu-
diate the ideals of peaceful
co-existence in a pluralistic
Middle East."
The resolution was signed
by the Rev. Jimmy Allen, of
San Antonio, president of
the 13 million-member
Southern Baptist Convention
and Rabbi Marc H. Tan-
enbaum, national inter-
religious affairs director of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
Wright (D-
Rep. James `A
Tex. ), the House Majority
Leader who addressed the
conference, deplored the ha-
tred and hostility of the re-
jectionist Arab states at Tri-
poli, saying that "they are
not the wave of the future,
they are the ebb tide of the
past."
The conference issued a
statement affirming that
Baptists and Jews "will
seek to strengthen human
rights in this country and
abroad through our firm
support of both political and
civil liberties as well as
economic justice." The
statement expressed the sol-
idarity of Baptists and Jews
"in the common effort to
assure the human rights of
our brethren in the Soviet
Union."
The conference, held at
the Southern Methodist Uni-
versity, was sponsored
jointly by the AJCom-
mittee's Interreligious Af-
fairs Department and the
Christian Life Commission
of the Texas Baptist Con-
vention, the largest Baptist
Convention in the country.
Its theme was "Agenda for
Tomorrow—Baptists and
Jews Face the Future."
Senate Presented
Energy Research
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
(D-Ohio) has provided the
Senate with the texts of the
"hard hitting, practical pa-
pers" presented on energy
conservation at the General
Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds last month.
In a floor speech, the Sen-
ator hoped "other will ben-
efit from this fine work."
He pointed to their "prac-
tical solutions" to meet the
"crucial" energy situation.
The papers were by gr.
William Rice of Washing-
ton, Billie Tisch and Rachel
Lieberman of New York,
and Harry Rosen, director
of the Jewish Community
Center in Dallas where the
CJF Assembly was held.
The very world rests on
the breath of children in the
schoolhouse.
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
AMONG JEWISH PROFESSORS: Some 10 years ago
the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported
that there were approximately 40,000 Jewish professors in
American institutions of higher learning. They constituted
at that time about 8.7 percent of the total number of
professors in colleges and universities.
About five years later the number of Jewish professors
was estimated at 50,000 the majority of them below the ag
of 45. In 17 of the most prestigious universities they made
up 17 percent of the total faculty. In some universities there
were 300 or more Jewish professors.
The situation is much different today. Jewish faculty
population has perhaps not decreased, but it has also not
increased during the last years. There are several reasons
for this "freeze." One of the major reasons is the priority
which colleges and universities must now accord to Black
applicants--and also to women--when engaging new teach-
ing personnel. This priority system, imposed upon in-
stitutions of higher education, is sarcastically termed in the
academic world as "reverse discrimination." It affects not
only Jews but- all the "white"--members in the teaching
profession.
Among the other impediments for young Jewish profes-
sors to find themselves on the staff of colleges and
universities is the curtailing of academic appointments in
general because of reductions in the faculty budget. A
contributing factor is also the decrease in enrollments as a
result of declining birth rate.
Young Jewish professors who had joined small univer-
sities, hoping to make these a bridge to appointments in
larger universities, are now only too glad to hold down their
positions. -
THE BROKEN BARRIERS: The rise in the number of
Jewish professors came after World War II. Some 50 years
ago it was rare to find a Jewish professor on the faculty of
an American school of higher learning. This was due
mainly to the fact that the great majority of the Jewish
population consisted of immigrants whose children began to
attend college in large numbers only about 50 years ago.
Partly it was due also to anti-Jewish prejudice.
City College of New York was one of the first
institutions of higher learning that opened its gates to
Jewish professors. But even City College, which had many
thousands of Jewish students, was accused 40 years ago of
having only five Jewish professors on its faculty. The late
Lionel Trilling recalled that he was the first Jew appointed
to the English department at Columbia University. The
Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew to
professorship until 1939 after Felix Frankfurter left the
faculty to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In order to
attain professorships, Jews had to achieve distinction in
their respective fields of national and international
character.
Today, some 25 percent of the Jewish professors are
teaching law, while more than 22 percent are teaching
medicine. About 20 percent are in the field of biochemistry,
14 percent in bacteriology. Jewish professors who teach
psychology, economics and social work are 15-20 percent of
the total number of Jewish academicians. The percentage
is less is physics, mathematics and chemistry, and much
less in the humanities.
LOW PROFILE JEWISHNESS: The 50,000 Jewish pro-
fessors constitute a tremendous intellectual force. How-
ever, the great majority of them are not interested in
Jewish affairs.
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
has been attempting during the last few years to stimulate
interest among them to Jewish communal activities in the
communities where their campuses are located. However,
very few are responsive. The United Jewish Appeal has a
Faculty Advisory Cabinet to assist in the planning and
organization of faculty fund-raising campaigns on campus-
es. But such campaigns are being conducted in only 32
colleges and universities. Faculty activity on behalf of
Soviet Jewry is not perceived as an on-going project at very
many schools, although special campaigns on behalf of
individual Soviet Jewish academicians are not unusual.
Almost all of the smaller campuses report an up-hill
struggle to involve Jewish faculty in the work of Hillel
Foundations or any other type of Jewish program. Most of
the faculty are low-profile concerning their Jewishness on
campus. Some are married to non-Jews and are not
interested in participating in Jewish programs. In the
larger universities, some Jewish faculty members contrib-
-
nrograms as wiliest sneakers