Sunday, March 25, 1973 Pge Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY I ENGLISH DEPT. CASE:* 'Tracking' brews Trac kigbrescoo Profs denied tenure in Ann Arbor publi te P (Continued from Page 1) However, School Board President Michael, however, claims most Ted Heusel says that although students are aware that they areI there had been an attempt to stop being "tracked," and those in the tracking in the past, the majority (continued from Page 1) timehaving to show large amounts i be a humanities subcommittee. non-college preparatory track are of school board members now feel; sell Fraser. "I find the criteria of publications early in one's ca- Rhodes calls the committee com- generally opposed to it. that tracking is necessary. reasonable." reer." petent. He cites the need for an ex- A University study in 1966 ob- Aede astakn ildf- reaonale" rer" pten. e cte th ned or n x- Uivesi yd in16ob Aberdeen says tracking will defi- It is simply not true, he adds, LSA Dean Frank Rhodes believes ternal as well as internal review served that tracking was. strongly nitely be a campaign issue for a "that the college cares only about scholarship and publication are of faculty work, as important in associated with dropping out of publication aid not teaching.'' "one guarantee of the quality of tablishing a uniform standard school, with nearly nine times the "Scholarship and teaching must teaching." the college. number of students in the lowerr be in balance. Scholarship is gen- The LSA decision to reject the track dropping out. erated out of teaching.Thatper- Inadditiontwo professors' tenure "requests The study also found that those ntroversy c schools couple of candidates in the upcom- ing school board election in June. But he predicts that it probably will not be called "tracking." "It might be called 'excellence in education' or something like that, but it'll be there-very subtle, but still there." p MUSIC LESSONS SIGN UP NO WFOR CLASS GUITAR LESSONS, JUST $12.00 FOR A SIX-WEEK COURSE. Rentals ava ilable. Also private lessons on guitar, flute, recorder, banjo, J piano, and moog. CALL h a t~{ J Ann Arbor Music Mart 769-4980 9:30-9:00 336 South State Street SPECIAL! HOT CHOCOLATE Daily Now- 64-0558 son who is a lively teacher is likely to be an active and vigorous schol- ar. You couldn't get someone through here who was a bad teacher. English Prof. Marvin Felheim sees things very differently. He calls the assumption ofeequal weight a lie, and he sees an enormous increase in the emphasis given to publication in the last few years. "People ought to pro- duce all the time," he said. But Felheim objects to the idea that the only type of production is publication. "There are other areas of creativity." In addition the problem of pro- duction is where to publish. Ac- cording to Felheim, most literary journals are clogged up and are more likely to take works by more established writers. "The journals are means to an end," he said. "They are dull and nobody reads them." The apparent drive for publica- tion may be rooted in the past. Several years ago a ranking of English graduate schools was pub- lished, placing Michigan approxi- mately 17thnationally. Since then, according to Prof. Steven Wei- land, there has been an increased effort to up the department's na- tional professional standing through publication. "The ranking is ab- solutely ridiculous," he contends. "Our classrooms count first. I am much less concerned with our na- tional image." "This was once a great depart- ment, but it is not now," said Prof. Daniel Fader. "At the time of pro- motion we all become great teach- ers. It is so easy to work at ad- ministrating than scholarship. The easiest one to judge is scholarship. Scholarship is the most visible." Hercontinues: "Teaching is ex- aggerated. It is required of all of us that we be good teachers. Bad teachers should have no place in the University, no matterahow good their research. "Scholarship is the one clear piece of evidence that a man or woman is working. Teaching can become automatic," he added. Publication is believed by some to be the only way of judging a professor's future potential. Fraser says, "The college is being asked to make a life time commitment. Publishing is an indication of vi- tality of years to come." Fader agrees. "You want some- thing promising for the future- not a remark on the past," he commented. However W e ia n d disagrees.j "One can demonstrate scholarly attributes without at the same Do You REALLY Want To Go To MEDICAL DENTAL VETERINARY SCHOOL Let us help you gain admission PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL PLACEMENT SERVICE 29636 Pickford Livonia, Mich. 48152 I of who is quaiiied to judge a pro- fessor's publication. Is it up to the individual department members to judge each other's work, or should the decision be up to LSA? Weiland charges "the dean is suggesting we are not fit to evalu- ate our own people." Fraser defends the college. "I think it is proper for the LSA Executive Committee to act as a check. What the majority of the of English Executive Committee wants is not always best for the department,' 'he says. Felheim questions the compe- tence of those on the LSA commit- tee. "What does the executive committe know about the problems of the field?" According to Rhodes, all tenure recommendations are reviewed 'by an LSA executive subcommittee from that department's area. For the English department this would was also based on a difference of opinion about unpublished manu- scripts. In general, according to Rhodes, the college p r e f e r s published works. "Getting a book published says something about its quality," he comments. "Theereviews re- ceived also indicate something about the quality. We prefer print- ed material, but will on occasion look at manuscripts." The English department commit- tee hadnapproved the unpublished work of one of the professors. "Mere publication is not always a sign of quality," Weiland says. "It is an acknowledged joke of how much junk there is in our field." In addition, there is a time ele- ment involved. A person shouldn't be spited because his work is only a year or two away from publica- tion, he adds. pupils from working-class homesj are far more likely to be in the general curriculum than those from middle-class homes. And grading standards in the college-oriented curriculum tend to become more lenient than in the general curriculum. Human relations ombudsman Dr. Robert Potts submittedaa proposal in 1971 asking the Board of Edu- cation to abolish the system of tracking in Ann Arbor schools, but it was set aside for "further study." 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