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University of Southern California
Vol. LXV1, No. 70	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, February 12, 1974
Faculty Senate rejects
parts of
BY PETER WONG
Editor
The Faculty Senate overwhelmingly rejected Saturday the most controversial portions of a task force report about the university’s tenure and promotion policies.
It also established a committee to study other parts of the report.
The senate listed three specific recommendations ofthe task force that were to be clearly rejected.
They were the possibility of waiver of tenure, extension of the probationary period before the granting of tenure, and fixed-term renewable contracts in place of tenure.
The contracts system was to have been experimental in some academic units that were to volunteer.
However, the senate voted 72-15 to reject the three recommendations, as well as others deemed to be in violation of guidelines of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the national organization for faculty members.
The Faculty Senate’s comments will be forwarded to President John R. Hubbard, along with those of the Council of Deans and the President’s Advisory Council.
However, because of faculty reaction as expressed in Saturday’s votes, the most controversial portions of the report appear to be dead.
The senate spent nearly six hours in debating the report, prepared by the Task Force on Tenure and Promotion under the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning. The report was submitted in August, 1973.
“The senate deliberations were quite impressive. It was
Activities to show Black experience
Campus observance of Black History Week, which continues through Friday, will include a seminar and an exhibit of Black artists’ works.
A seminar in “New Images of Black Leadership.” with Robert L. Brock as guest speaker, will be held at noon today in Student Activities Center 205.
“The purpose of the program is to give the USC community an opportunity to share in the many facets of the Black experience,” said Lawrence E. Rodgers, chairman of the event and director of the Haynes Foundation Drug Research Center on campus.
The art and social service exhibit, sponsored by Art-West Associated, will take place today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Fisher Gallery.
The exhibit will include works by such artists as Ber-\nie Casey and Wes Hall.
ADVISORY COUNCIL HEARS REPORT
No change seen
BY JON ALLEN
in tuition revenue
Staff Writer
The university is taking in about the same amount oftuition as at this time last year in spite of increased enrollment, the President’s Advisory Council was told Monday.
James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, reported though there are about 900 more students than a year ago, the average number of units per student is less.
The council, formerly called the University Council, was also told that the housing procedure
has been changed to benefit all students, out-of-state students in particular.
Housing assignments for housing are now handled in the admissions procedure. Housing will be guaranteed to out-of-state students who submit their materials by a certain date.
Appleton also said that applications for freshman standing in the next academic year are at about the same level now that they were at the end ofthe application period a year ago.
Transfer-level applications are about the same and there are
slightly more graduate applications, said Appleton.
President John R. Hubbard told the council about the continuing search for a vice-president for health affairs. He said that Edmund Ackell of the University of Florida, who had been most highly considered for the position, had confirmed by phone that he would take the position.
A letter received from Ackell by Hubbard on Friday, though, said that some personal problems were presenting obstacles but that Ackell would try to let the university know his status in two weeks.
Hubbard also said that a search committee for a dean for the School of Dentistry is being formed, with representatives from the School of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, and one
other school, the representative of which has not yet been selected.
The council was also told that:
•	The increase in Rose Bowl student ticket price was because of a television contract with NBC that yielded less money to the Tournament of Roses.
•	The remodeling of Seaver Residence Hall on the medical campus is planned.
•	Differences in prices on similar items between the university bookstore and the Medical Campus bookstore is because of medical bookstore purchases at higher prices because of its smaller inventory.
The council also unanimously adopted bylaws Jan. 21 that, among other things, will vacate about half the seats so new members can be elected.
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tenure report
probably the best meeting of any faculty senate that I've seen in the past five years,” Richard H. Peairs, Western regional director for the AAUP, said after the meeting.
“Every member apparently did his homework, and no one left early. It was in the best tradition of faculty participation in academic governance.”
The morning session was divided into four forums. Two faculty members were asked to comment on each of four selected issues.
Donald J. Lewis, dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communication, and J. Wesley Robb, professor of religion, discussed the recommendations on faculty appointment and promotions policies.
Dallas Willard, associate professor of philosophy, and James H. McBath, professor of speech communication, discussed the
recommendations about procedures for appointment and promotion.
Robert Ellickson, associate professor of law, and John E. Elliott, professor of economics, discussed the most controversial recommendation—the experimental adoption in some academic units of fixed-term, renewable contracts in place of tenure.
Aaron Rose, professor of safety and systems management, and Martin Siegel, associate professor of mechanical engineering, discussed recommendations on personnel policies and possible conflicts with AAUP guidelines.
Supporters of controversial portions of the report generally argued that they would strengthen academic freedom and help clarify university policies and procedures
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AGAINST TENURE REPORT—James H. McBath, professor of speech communication, spoke out at a Faculty Senate meeting Saturday against a task force report that would have changed the university's tenure policies. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
BLACK HISTORY WEEK—This picture of Martin Luther King is among the works by Black artists being displayed in the Fisher Gallery as part of Black History Week, Feb. 11-15. DT photo by Mike Martinez._ J