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nent class, (c) I should not have such a class at 

 all. — President Judson. 



{a), (6) We do not. After a certain length of 

 service an assistant professor has hitherto been 

 expected to win promotion or drop out. (c) This 

 is a diiBcult problem as yet unsolved. — President 

 Lowell. 



(a) Yes. (5) No. (c) Instead of making a 

 permanent class of assistant professors I would 

 make a special class of professors who devote 

 themselves to the training of college boys — a task 

 as important as that of those who devote them- 

 selves to research. — President Bryan. 



(o) We do not at present. (6) If conditions 

 tend to form a permanent class of assistant pro- 

 fessors the present salaries will not be adequate 

 for efficient life-service in this work, (c) I would 

 give them votes in the faculty and after the first 

 five years of satisfactory service, life tenure and 

 make their salaries proportionate to full pro- 

 fessors' salaries rather than to instructors' sal- 

 aries. — President MacLean. ' 



(a) Yes. (6) No. — Dean Templin. 



(a) Those most indispensable as men or as 

 teachers or in research may look forward. (6) 

 No. Salaries should be higher and discrimina- 

 tions keener, (c) I wish I could give any. It is 

 one of the administrative problems most difficult 

 to handle. — President Jordan. 



(o) No. They are permanent if good enough. 

 If vacancy occurs above them they may or may 

 not be promoted. It depends upon whether a 

 better man can be obtained. (h) No. There 

 should be a general lifting of the salaries of the 

 whole grade, (e) None. — President Northrop. 



(a) No. All assistant professors are on perma- 

 nent appointment and may look forward to pro- 

 motion, (h) I think not, but with chance for 

 promotion before all, the salary seems reasonable 

 for assistant professors in comparison [about two 

 thirds of full professors' salary], (c) I should 

 prefer not to make a man " assistant professor " 

 till he demonstrates his fitness and capacity to 

 become " professor " when maturer. I would also 

 treat all teachers of professorial rank as equal 

 in freedom, initiative, etc., before the administra- 

 tion. — President Hill. 



(a) Assistant professors for definite period of 

 appointment, commonly three years; associate 

 professors, indefinite. (6) Salaries for assistant 

 professors are too small, but not more so than 

 for other classes of staff. [Ratio to full pro- 

 fessors' salary (1907), associates 73.5 per cent., 

 assistants 59 per cent., instructors 38.5 per cent.] 



(c) Would keep rank of assistant professor for 

 definite period, and make that of associate pro- 

 fessor permanent appointment. — President Van 

 Hise. 



(a) We desire not to form a permanent class 

 of assistant professors if we can help it. If a 

 man is not ready to rise above $2,500 with us, 

 we make it easy for him to go to some other 

 institution where research qualifications are less 

 necessary for a full professorship. It occasionally 

 happens that a man makes himself more useful to 

 us as assistant professor than he could anywhere 

 else and obtains a quasi-permanent position of 

 this kind. (6) No. (c) I think it can be prac- 

 tically done away with if we recognize that nearly 

 all men who make good assistant professors will 

 make better independent teachers in schools where 

 original deep thought is not so much required as 

 it ought to be in university teaching. — President 

 Hadley. 



At Columbia it is recognized that there 

 are certain men who might well remain as- 

 sistant professors so long as they were in 

 service, no matter what their compensation 

 or the length of their experience. Persons 

 whom it might prove to be desirable to re- 

 tain in the service of the university, either 

 as instructors or assistant professors, 

 might, after having served for five years, 

 be appointed by the trustees to serve dur- 

 ing their pleasure, and their salaries fixed 

 regardless of their grade. By making this 

 provision for academic officers of this type, 

 who are rather numerous, much of the 

 pressure which is now felt to advance men 

 to adjunct professorships and professor- 

 ships, in order to reward them for long 

 service or to give them increased compen- 

 sation, would be relieved. 



Queries ^d, f, g, h, i and j had bearing 

 on the relation of length of service to sal- 

 ary and promotion. 4:d asked whether 

 salaries were graded with respect to length 

 of service. 



The replies: 



Yes. $2,000 for first four-year appointment. 

 $2,500 on reappointment. — President Judson. 



