THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursdoy, April 17, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, April 17, 1969 Making of a teacher -- RC R /vis -~ - . -- w*,j w ~- i i a s k i (Continued from Page 1) who are in that bag shouldn't be People below assistant professors in the Residential College." -lecturers and instructors-have Guskin, however, is in the mi- professional pressure as well, but nority,-and most young staff mem- it is a little more distant and cer- bers do tend to think about how tainly less threatening, their departments react to their Teaching fellows have a prob- work, lem of a different sort. They are In addition to these personal under pressure, sometimes direct dilemmas, there is a forceful fi- and sometimess less so, to finish nancial problem to contend with. their "prelims" and their disser- The Residential College is far tations. But once again, they are from rich. It is, in fact, seriously a little more distant from the cru- underfunded, and must depend on cial time when tenure may be departments to pay men for the decided upon. 'time they work in RC. In general, Dean Robertson is able to reim- But outside pressures are still burse departments for only about a factor. Most professors respect half the time a professor spends the pressures that are on them in the Residential College. and tend to float back toward As a partial result, the depart- their departments. ments don't have enough money "The job market is too good to to hire men to replace the people get hung up on the question of they lose to RC, and must some- tenure," says Alan Guskin of the times call back professors for their psychology department. "Tenure own needs after a semester tour is good for the guy who wants to with the RC. settle down, and a lot of people 1; or example, Prof. Thomas Ten- get hooked on the status of Mich- tler of the history department, a igan," one semester RC veteran, now; "The Residential College does finds himself unable to return to detract from normal academic the college in the fall because of pursuits," he' agrees, "but those heavy departmental obligations. "I wasn't forced not to return' to the Residential College. The history department has been very liberal about this," he says. "But someone has to teach History 101. There is a shdrt supply of men in this area (Medieval history) and the departmental commit- ment is just too great." The difficulty pf adjusting an individual's relationship with RC and his own academic career has brought about delicate balancing between commitment to RC and continuity in its programs. In a constantly innovating in- stitution like RC, continuity is im- portant. While change goes on, there must be certain features held constant. The best assurance of continuity is some type of perma- nent staff, in RC permanence is not always desirable. RC is an in- volving place where a limited time commitment prevents individuals from focusing their life on the college. "The gratifications of working in the Residential College are, enormous," says Guskin "but you can't work there full-time too long. The place is just too de- manding." But to'keep dynamic the college must continue to demand much, and be prepared to change much. The rate of change has been Continued from Page 1) lessness. "Things change too Other departments do not feel quickly," one professor says," peo- particularly constrained by the ple here change programs before limited budget, since the number' they know what the original pro- of students and professors willing, gram could do." "'to stay for the summer is small.1 Summertime activity on campus suffers I HRC claims U' mortgage aids in hiousing discrimination Whether or not change will' be institutionalized cannot be pre-, dicted with certainty since the college is still only two years.old. But educational changes inno- vated in the RC will most cer- tainly rub off on LSA. The immediate effect RC has had on LSA has come through the professors who have taught in the college. "Faculty members who havetaught in RC bringrback their learning experience to LSA when they return," says Prof. Co- hen. "I've heard quite a few pro- fessors say that they just don't teach the same way in LSA once they've taught in the Residential College." RC recently set up an advisory committee on teaching to work' with Dean Robertson on evalu- ation of RC teachers. The commit- tee will certainly be important within RC, but what role it will have on the literary college as a whole remains to be seen. Dean Robertson feels the virtueI of the committee is that "We can make material more readily avail- able for departments in evalua- ting teaching. And \we expect to do it routinely for departments in the future, even when not asked for it." Robertson says the information has been used by the literary col- lege in consideration of tenure and teaching awards. "I really can't say what effect it will have." he says, "but we won't let departments forget what their men are doing here." The role of the Residential Col- lege in this area, as well as in other edupational areas, is a grow- ing one. But there seems to be general agreement that the RC will enhance the status and the quality of teaching in the literary college. TOMORROW: THE MONEY GAME "In this department there is no demand that hasn't been satis- fied, with the one exception of a full-term graduate reading course in French 111," says Prof. James O'Neill, chairman of the Ro- mance languages department. O'Neill admits, however, that his department "has not been able to offer a complete undergraduate program in the long trimester term," as it was originally envis- ioned. The philosophy department ac- tually will have a surplus in this year's summer budget, because it is not hiring as many full profes- sors to teach as it did last sum- mer. "We could offer a larger p r o- gram if we wanted to," says De- partment Chairman Prof. Richard Brandt, "but there hasn't been any indication that we have to." Last year, students underenroll- ed in his department. Nor is the English department ~sinking from lack of funds. Prof. Russell Fraser, chairman, says the budget squeeze "hasn't had any really dramatic effect o v e r here." He does admit, however, .Bus service extended University North Campus b u s service will be extended starting Saturday (April 19) to provide ad- ditional runs' to cover late library closings during final examination period. The extende bus service will leave central campus at 15 and 45 minutes after the hour as well as the regular times on the. hour and half past the hour. The ad- ditional service will begin each day after the last regular run, and will conclude with a final run at 5:15 a.m, each day. (Continued from Page 1) issue over a moi'al issue," Hunter "Legally the University doesn't charged. "Do they have a right to have responsibility," said Hunter take federal and state funds to in reply. "But they have a moral perpetuate racism?" obligation to help stop this dis- Griffith said yesterday the Uni- Oriffith said that while "theor- versity stopped issuing mortgage etically,it would be possible for loans to commercial companies the University to get rid of the after the Cutler Hubble mortgage, but not without a loss." He indicated the mortgage was "As a matter of practice for the within a short time of being paid last ten years we have confined off. mortgage loans to members of the "They are playing an economic University staff only," Griffith ex- a Mrs. Fagin, along with nine other local citizens, decided to test the degree of discrimination in Ann Arbor housing. Mrs. Fagin said the group, five whites and five blacks, went out to 15 apartments posing as blacks, whites, and mixed couples. She testified that at one Cutler Hubble apartment the manager arranged to meet prospective ten- ants when they drove up to t h e building. She said when the oc- cupants of the cai' were not white the manager drove on without stopping. In another apartment, the man- ager - canceled the appointment when he learned the couple com- ing was racially mixed..When they showed up anyway the manager asked them personal questions about themselves and said their application would have to be ap- proved in Detroit. that the department' "is no longer able to bring in eminent visitors to teach for the summer." While the college's various de- partments have weathered t h e budget squeeze with varying de- grees of success, it is clear that the trimester system as originally planned seems doomed. For even if. more and more pro- fessors and students choose to stay at the University for the spring-summer term, the literary college budget for that term ap- parently lacks the potential to support any expansion at all. Social Work students slap Dean's offer (Continued from Page 1) of students and faculty on the committee. Under this proposal, the students would judge prospec- tive professors. on their teaching ability, while the faculty members would judge the candidates' com- petence in research, publication and understanding of theoretical material. This amounts to a rejection of Fauri's proposal said SWSU pres- ident Jesse Bernstein. Under the SWSU resolution, students on the Search committee, as well as students on the student- faculty committee in the method (specific area) for which the pro- fessor was to be hired, would have the opportunity to interview all candidates. After both students and faculty had made their evalu- ations of the prospective faculty member, Dean Fauri would chair a meeting to resolve any differ- ences which might arise between the two groups' findings. The vote on the resolution was immediately called into question because a quorum of 25 delegates was lacking. 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