https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/0727d08a7a3b5fd883162732ad797bd5.pdf 9f8b77333066df6a3ce286a34af7e4ac PDF Text Text ftov~NBER 30, WoL.II, 1958 No.3 CONPILED HONTHLY BY INFORNATION SERVICE, SOUTH WE STERN ILLINOIS RESIDENCE OFFICE, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, FOR THE STAFF NENBERS OF THE RESIDENC E CENTER S, THE NEWSLETTER IS HADE POSSIBLE BY THE COOPERATION OF STAFF !1E l1BER S WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEWS I TENS. FACULTY NEWS L E TT E R Faculty lfumen's Club Sponsors All-~aculty Christmas Party A Christmas Party for the entire faculty of the Residence Centers, planned by the Women's Club, is scheduled for December 13. Married staff members are asked to bring husbands or wives to the party, \vhich will include a dinner at the East St. Louis Residence Center, Routes 40, 66, and Alternate 67 at Ohio Street. Board members \vill bring the meat dish, and every other faculty member \vill be asked by his telephone chairman to indicate his choice of other things to bring. There will be a Christmas Grab Bag, so everyone is being asked to bring some white elephant, appropriately wrapped and accompanied by an original verse. According to the sponsors of the party, this really i0 supposed to be some Hhite elephant that the donor has been \vaiting to unload at an affair like this. (NEHSLETTER \vas advised to carry this item as the lead article in this issue "because busy housewives haven't time .to plow through ponderous accounts of abstruse articles published in scholarly maga~ines and lengthy papers read before professional organizations.") Add to December Calendar: Square Dancing -- Alton Residence Center Gym, December 6, 7:00 p.m. New University Telephone Lines in Operation Two direct telephone tie lines are nmv in operation bet\·J een the Alton and East St. Louis Residence Centers. (The administrative offices at the Broadview Hotel are serviced by the sHitchboard of the East St. Louis Center.) ONLY AUTHORIZED FACULTY and STAFF HEHBERS NAY USE THESE DIRECT LINES, according to the executive dean's office. Since these lines are in demand almost continuously, staff members are urged to complete calls on them with celerity. The Business Office today asked FACULTY NEHSLETTER to publish these instructions to staff members concerning use of University telephones: "If you wish to make a call from one Center to the other, ask your suitchboard operator to connect you with the operator at the other Center. \.vhen she ans~;vers, tell her what extension you want. "If you \vish to make an outside call, tell the switchboard operator at your Center what number you wish. She will give you an outside line, and -- on request -she will tell you whether you can dial your number directly or \vhether you must dial "O" to place your call with the Telephone Company operator. (Some outside calls can be made more economically through the S\·Ji tchboard of the other Center.) 11 IF YOU HISH to MAKE a LONG DISTANCE CALL~ GIVE YOUR Sh!ITCHBOARD OPERATOR YOUR NAME and DEPk'lTMENT AS l.ffiLL AS the Nut-lBER YOU INTEND td CALL. She has been instructed to keep a list of all long-distance calls. (If you call Carbondale 1340, tell her the Extension as well.) "If you call from a telephone outside the Centers, dial EJTHER Bridge 4-2100 or Alton 2-0001, and the s>vitchboard operator who answers will help you get the Residence Center extension you wish." ----------------------------~------ �. >· - 2 - New Directory Now on Sale Just off the press is a 1958-59 directory containing the names of the faculty and staff at everycampus of SIU. One of these will be supplied by Auxiliary Enterprises for each extension. Additional directories may be purchased at the University Book Store at 75 cents each. In this new directory the faculty and staff of the Residence Centers are listed on pp.41-47, and every Alton extension is a three-digit number. ----------------------------------SIU Playing Cards Now Available Attractive twin-pack SIU playing cards are now available at $2.50. Featuring Brown & Bigelo~v's patented Redi Slip plastici zed finish, they can be wiped clean with a damp cloth. An extra joker, for canasta, is included in each deck. They are packed in a ttvin-tuck gold carton and mailing case and make ideal gifts. The University Seal is on the back. The project is sponsored by the SIU Alumni Association. Place your orders vlith Mildred Arnold, Suite 227, Broadvie~v Hotel, East St. Louis, Illinois; .Telephone - Bridge 4-2100, extension 3 or 4. (advertisement) ' Going on THE ACADEMIC MARKETPLACE Early this month NEWSLETTER asked Dr. \Villiam T. Going, dean of instruction, to write down for this issue some of his impressions of the University Library's latest book on the hiring and firing of university faculty members. Several days later he tvrote: "All of us interested in the anatomy of our academic profession -- its mores, morales, and machinations -- will find Theodore Daplow and Reece J. HcGee's The Academic Harketplace (Basic Books, Inc., 1958) a book worth reading. (The copy I read was furnished through the courtesy of East St. Louis Residence Center Library.) "This is scarcely the place for a full-fledged book review, but I thought you would be interested in at least three points. ;'Quoting from an address by H. H. Cowley, the authors remind us that after the emergence of the Italian universities in the late Middle Ages, students held all the administrative posts, establishing fees to be paid professors, the length of their l~ctures, and the fines to be levied against teachers who came to their lecture halls late or who taught less well than the students thought desirable. Eventually, for a complex of reasons, student control >vaned, and the civil authorities took over by appointing what we would today call boards of trustees . . . lay bodies of non-academic people. Our American universities, copying in particular the organization of Yale and Princeton, who, in turn, copied the University of Edinburgh and Leyden, have thus inherited an Italian pattern of giving all the ultimate governing power to boards of trustees, professors being in fact hired men. �- ., .) Going on Ttffi ACADEMIC MARKETPLACE (Cont'd) "A second matter of interest is a sampling of the eleven recommendations in the final chapter: 1. That the tenure rank of lecturer be established for .men primarily interested in teaching. 2. That the order of seniority at each academic level be respected and streng"thened. 3. That standard base salaries be adopted for all academic ranks, and that salary information be made a matter of public and accessible record. 4. That a standard teaching load, expressed in class hours, be adopted in all departments of the university for all members of the teaching staff. 5. That both the period of probationary appointments and the period of probation be much extended. 6. That fringe benefits be improved and expanded. 7. That the personal and arbitrary control of administrative officers over members of the faculty be reduced as far as possible. 8. That regular, orderly procedures be established for promotion and for the renewal of contracts. "The third point, which is an ironic one, I borrowed from the summary on the book jacket. Like most anatomies, The Academic Narketplace does not present a pretty picture. lle learn, for example, that the chief criteria used in making appointments are prestige and compatibility, but that prestige, which rests on scholarly achievement and not on teaching ability, is judged by a survey of opinion rather than a survey of published work: the printed material gathered or submitted for that judgment is looked at but not read. "Jacques Barzun, who has \·l ritten the foreward to the book, concludes: 'To a foundation, this work is obviously a report; to the authors' colleagues, it will be knmvn as a study; but to the reader, the lucky reader, it will surely seem what it is-- a book.'" Last \veek Going called attention to ::t review of this book in the December issue of HARPER'S HAGAZINE, in which Paul Pickrel, discussing THE ACADENIC MARKETPLACE and THE ACADEHIC lUND by Paul Lazarsfeld and \lagner Thielens, Jr., says : "After these two studies of the problems of the academic bureaucracy it is a comfort to turn to a book concerned with the quality of education offered in American colleges -- SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE PROFESSORS, by George \.Jilliams. Dr. Hheat Addresses 11th Group since Start of Quarter This \veek brought to eleven the number of community groups Dr. Leonard \.Jheat has been asked to address this quarter. In addition to giving four talks on the State Bond Issue for Education-Helfare purposes and appearing before four church groups, he addressed the teachers and administrators of the Belleville Elementary Schools; the Belleville League of Homen Voters and the PTA Council; and the St. Clair County School Administrator's Association. Hheat, supervisor of graduate advisement at both Residence Ce nters, came to SIU last January from the University of llinnesota at Duluth. �SIU to Ask Le r; islature for Honey to Develop Proposed Second Campus Southern Illinois University will ask the st ate le gi s l a tur e to appropriate $20 million in capital funds durin g the ne xt bi ennium for a proposed second campus near Edwardsville, it was announced last ue ek a t a meeting of the University's Board of Trustees in Carbondale. Construction, land development , and planning cost es timates for the ne•v campus during 1959·61 total approximately 1/3 of the total $62 million the university \vill re quest from the next session of the general assembly for capital improvements. The board of trustees also approved an operating budget re c. uest of $47,807,889.00 ·· more than double the appropriations received for the current biennium -- but costs of operating the Edwardsville campus or the present SIU residence centers in Alton, East St. Louis, and Belleville 1vere not li ste d separately . Hmvever, the capital budget the univer s ity will seek ear-marks $14 million for buildings on the proposed campus to se rve the populous in the Hadison and St. Clair Counties area. Another $4 million 1·1 ill be made for land development and $2 million for architectural and engineering planning , the board decided. A $1,600,000 fund drive headed by civic leaders is now underway for purchase of the 2 ,600-acre site west of Edward sville. The initial buildings planned and thei r estimated cost are: central services and classroom building, $3.5 million; classroom and office building, $2 .5 million; physical education, $1.5 million; library, $3 mill ion; natural sciences, $2 million; and physical plant and pmver plant, $1.5 million. Some $20 million >·Jill be neede d for neH buildings at Carbondale, the bo ard stated. Commenting on the ne ed for hi gher appro priations for the unive rsity, President D. \v. Morris pointed out that SIU' s enrollment has increased by 7, 267 students since the post-Har peal~, a gain of some 2, 000 mo r e th an al l five of the other state colleges and universities combined. lvhile most schools across the country are just now approaching their record totals of 1948 and 1949, Southern's student body h a s increased by 329 per cent, reflecting the greatly increased area int eres ts in hi gher education and the resulting nevl opportunities and pro c rams at SIU. Morris also said tha t service-minded SIU tau ght 9,000 students in more than Lf00 extension and adult education classes of f the campus last year, not including students registered for credit courses a t the universi ty's residence cent e r s. Another 35,000 attended non-credit workshops and conf erences at the university. (In a November 20 editorial, the CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE tried to make out that "the competition for the tax dollar in Il l inois \v as amic able " until SIU' s "ambitions . . .led to such fantastic demands as a neu 2 , 600- acre c ampus in Had ison-St. Clair Counties and a 194 million dollar capital improvement pro gram. ': ) Dr. Broadbooks Publishes on Mamma l s The JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY for Hay of this year carried an o.rticle by Dr. Harold Broadbooks, zoolo gy, Alton, on the Nort huo.r d Extension o f the Kanc;aroo Rat in Washington. In July an illustrated 48-page a rti c le by Bro adbooks on the Life History and Ecology of the Chipmunk in Eastern Michigan ap pe are d in MISC. PUBL., NUSEUl-1 OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HICIIIGAN, NO.l03. Dr. Duncan " Defe nds Biased Teachin ~" "In Defense of Biased Teaching:' before the Carbondale Unitarian fellowship last week, Dr. Robert Duncan, evening colle ge s upervisor , Alton, call e d attention to the loss of human v a lues in our growing technical proficiency. �• - 5 - Dean See Advocates Better Training for U.S. Foreign Service Officials State Department officials should be Given more thorou gh training in the languages , history, and customs of the foreign countrie s to \vhich they are assigned, Dr. Harold B. See told a joint meeting of the Rotarian s and teachers of Collinsville last week. See, uho spent a year in Burma as a Fulbright lecturer and consultant to the Ministry of Education immediately before coming to SIU to head the University's program in SouthHestern Illinois, proposed severa l steps that should be taken to improve the U.S. Forei gn Service: 1. A greater attempt should be made toHard elimination of the language barrier by giving more an d better training in l angu age facilities to state department officials. 2. Increased understanding of foreicn peoples could be achieved through better and more extensive training of state department officials in the history and customs of the people and through direct contact Hith the foreign nationals \vhi le on . ass ignment. 3. Career diplomats and state department officials should be trained for Hark in a selected area. Tvm- year ass ignments to a foreign country are not efficient, since it takes a neHcomer almost that long to become well enough acquainted with the people to be of any value as an emissary. 4. Channels should be provided through which undistorted facts may reach policy-making bodies in llas hin[;ton. In addition to appearing as the featured speaker before the Collinsville group and tHo Belleville groups, the Ea s t Side Han agement Association and the Methodist Nen' s Association, See spoke informally before more than a do ze n other community groups in November; subject: SIU's Development in This Area. American Institute of Musicolo gy Brings Out Dr. Harren's Publications Four publications by Dr. Ed>vin Harren, music, Alton, dealing \Jith the Hasses of Robert Fayrt'ax, are being brought out by the American Institute of Musicology in Rome: "The Hasses of Robert Fayrfax; ' Hill appear in the Institute series, CORPUS HENSURAJ3LIS HUSICL\E. The volume \vill contain the six Hasses of Fayrfax, published here for the first time . "The Life and 17orks of Robert Fayrfax'' appeared in a Spring issue of the Institute's organ, ~1USICA DISCIPLINA. A detailed stylistic analysis of the Masses Has accepted for publication by the next issue o f the same organ. The tHo HUSICA DISCIPLINA articles Hill be combined and amplified \Jith several facsimilies in book form in the Institute's series, }lliSICOLOGICAL STUDIES AND DOCUMENTS, also scheduled for publication this year. The Director of the Institute, Dr. Armen Carapetyan, has asked \.Varren to collaborate with Dennis Stevens, eminent British musicologist, in bringing out the rest of Fayrfax's works. Staff llembcrs Attend Professional Hee tin gs Attendance at professional meetint;s reported to NEHSLETTER since the last i ss ue: South Central J:.iodern Language Association, Tulsa, November 7 and G Dr. Robert Duncan, chairman, languaGe and fine arts division Southern Illinois English Teacher s Association, Carbondale, October 31 Dr. Robert Duncan, En g lish, Alton Dr. Milton Byrd, English, East St. Louis �- GStaff Hembers Attend Professional Ueetings (Cont'd) American Associntion of Evening ColleGes, Louisville, November 17-19 Dr. Robert Duncan, evening colle Ge supervisor, Alton Mr. Clifton Cornwell, evening colle ge supervisor, East St. Louis Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis, St. Louis, October 15 Dr. Robert Duncan, evening college supervisor, Alton Dr. James Turner, director, East St. Louis Center American Association of Teachers of Germnn, Chicago, November 15 Dr. Ruth Kilchenmann, German and French, Alton Dr. Raymond J. Spahn, German, East St. Louis From the Desk of the Dean of Instruction "As He appronch the end of the first quarter of our second academic year, I hope you agree that we have made reasonnble progress \vi th thing s academic. Nuch, I know, is yet to be done. Nmv that the Faculty Council has had some experience in acting as an advisory clearinghouse of instructional matters for the Residence Centers' administration, I hope thnt you will feel free to refer to it those matters which go beyond the faculty meetings of the local centers. "As >·Je approach the first grading period of the academic year, I trust that you · believe Hith me that the way a faculty member chooses to grade his students is im important part of academic freedom. I hope that you \vill evaluate your students against the goals and aims that you hnve established for the course, measuring them against the decent competency of the field as you have come to know it across the years as student and teacher. "And after this task is over, I hope that all of us can enjoy a pleasant holiday with family and friends." � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty News Bulletin November 1958, Vol. 2, No. 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 1958