Almanac, November 1962, Vol. 9, No. 3
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Research Grants, Fellowships Management Committee Reports Now Available to Faculty To President's Staff Conference The University's Committee on the Advancement of A four-point program designed to strengthen and sys- Research has announced plans to award ten Summer tematize the methods by which the University recruits and Research Fellowships for 1963. In keeping with University retains administrative staff personnel was submitted this policy of providing more generous support for faculty month to the President's Staff Conference by the newly research, these awards have been increased in number and organized Committee on Management Development. the stipend raised to $1500. The program, which the Conference has asked the Com- Competition for these fellowships is open to all full-time mittee to find means of implementing, contains these members of the faculty who hold a doctorate or its equiva- points: lent. While appointments will be based primarily on the 1. The Committee on Management Development should merit of projects proposed and on the research potential be established as a standing committee. of applicants, preference is given to applications from 2. The Committee should have the responsibility of younger members of the faculty and those from the lower seeing that periodic evaluations are made of the abilities, academic ranks. experience, and performance of the present administrative The committee also has somewhat greater resources for personnel, so that those staff members who show the great- its regular grants in aid of research than it has had in est promise of further development can be identified. recent years. These grants provide for clerical or technical 3. No in the administrative assistance, equipment, supplies, and essential travel on change University's organi- do not include for zation or in management personnel should be made without approved projects. They stipends appli- the prior knowledge and approval of the Committee. cants, as do the Summer Fellowships. 4. The should enter a of Applicants are encouraged to consult members of the University upon program committee or its Dr. R. Nixon of the management apprenticeships in the larger administrative secretary, Eugene areas, so as to provide a source of qualified and seasoned Chemistry Department at his offices in Harrison Labora- Extension 8313. forms be obtained individuals to fill positions that become vacant through tory, Application may promotions. from him. the of Members of the committee are Dr. W. Wallace Weaver, Urging necessity periodic evaluations, the Com- chairman; Dr. P. L. mittee's report declared that "in a promotional program it Sociology Department, Bargellini, is essential that there be a formal of the Electrical Engineering; Dr. Maurice Brull, Mechanical appraisal perform- Dr. M. Case, Dr. ance levels and advancement potential. Each University Engineering; Lynn History; Hennig officer should be encouraged to meet at least annually with Cohen, English; Dr. Vincent G. Dethier, Biology; Dr. staff Richard Easterlin, Economics; Caleb Foote, Law; Dr. his members to review performance and progress. E. II, Only with the record of these evaluations and appraisals Robert Forster, Physiology; Dr. Alan G. Mac- of is it to the un- Diarmid, Chemistry; Dr. A. K. Mann, Physics; Dr. Robert management growth possible recognize Nelson, Romance Dr. William M. Protheroe, tapped potential within the University." Languages; In of its recommendation that no be Astronomy; Dr. Paul Sack, Education; Dr. Philip Teitel- support changes and Dr. made without the Committee's knowledge, the report baum, Psychology, Claude Welch, Religious stated: Thought. "When any change in administrative staffing is antici- pated it should be brought to the attention of the Com- mittee. Without expecting that all position vacancies can Dr. Pillard in South America or should be filled by promotion, the Committee feels Dr. Matthew J. Pifiard, Associate Professor of Educa- strongly that no administrative post should be filled from tion in the Graduate School of Education, is one of two without the University when there is an equally qualified (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) 2 THE ALMANAC Back grounder inating here. However, the Press welcomes submission of manuscripts by outside scholars, and in this year's list are included manuscripts from faculty members of many of the The University Press nation's leading universities. Members of the University faculty who are interested "On the non-material side," Yoseloff continued, "the in obtaining publication for book manuscripts have at activities of the Press have been equally gratifying. There their disposal the services of the University of Pennsyl- has been no lowering of the standards of acceptability by vania Press. the Editorial Committee, and the Committee has rigidly adhered to its of on A substantial operation and a long-established one, the policy accepting manuscripts entirely Press issued 33 new and revised editions in the fiscal the basis of favorable reports from the best qualified year readers. This has assured a of recently ended, and reported an income from sales and program publications equal fees of with a to the highest standards of acceptability enforced by any reprint approximately $150,000, compared in America. current national average for 57 other university presses university press of $112,000. "The unique financial position of the Press continues to The Press limits its to works of make it possible to accept manuscripts for publication publications scholarly without subventions from individual authors, and interest, and has as its principal purpose making publica- seeking tion available to scholars who would otherwise find it no manuscript is ever offered to the Committee or accepted difficult to a It does not handle fiction, text- upon the contingency of the author's having to provide a get hearing. subvention." books, or poetry. While selection of for lies in The University of Pennsylvania Press is fully independ- manuscripts publication ent, and has no affiliation with the American the hands of an editorial committee composed of University Association and staff members, all details of actual of University Presses, since its Director is not a faculty faculty publication member, as are in the hands of Thomas Yoseloff, publisher, whose required by AAUP rules. other publishing interests include the firm of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, and the Golden Cockerel Press, London. The University provides Mr. Yoseloff with a minimal operating budget, which is used largely for advertising and Annenberg School Dedicated promoting books by its faculty members; except for this, his function as a publisher may be compared with that of In Communications Field a commercial book However, since income from publisher. The new building of the Annenberg School of Commu- sales seldom matches unsubsidized operating costs, com- nications at 3623 Locust St. was dedicated Nov. mercial success either for an individual book or for the Thursday, 8, in ceremonies held in the school foyer. operation as a whole is not a consideration. E. Johnson the with members who desire to submit Chaplain Stanley opened program Faculty manuscripts may an invocation and was followed by President Harnwell, do so through Miss Edith Wehle, secretary to the Univer- who introduced Gilbert Seldes, Dean of the School, and sity Press, at 3436 Walnut St. Such manuscripts are first Walter H. of The screened the Annenberg, publisher Philadelphia by organization's editorial committee, com- Inquirer and donor of the building. posed of Dr. Ray H. Abrams, chairman; Dr. Robbins Burling, Dr. Irwin Friend, Dr. John G. Brainerd, Dr. Mr. Annenberg, an alumnus and a Trustee of the Uni- Anthony F. C. Wallace, Dr. Maurice Johnson, Dr. Kenneth versity, established the School through the Annenberg M. Setton, Gilbert Seldes; Provost David R. Goddard, and Fund, Inc., in memory of his father, the late M. L. Vice Provost Roy F. Nichols. The Committee customarily Annenberg. As a highlight of the ceremony he and his sends submitted manuscripts out to specialists in the field mother, Mrs. M. L. Annenberg, unveiled a marble plaque of interest on this and other campuses who serve as first set in the foyer wall, the plaque reading, "This building is readers. Frequently, but not without exception, the com- a memorial to Moses Louis Annenberg, 1877-1942." mittee abides by the reader's recommendation to accept The new structure, which was opened to use on Septem- or reject. ber 10, occupies a tract extending from Locust to Walnut Once accepted, a manuscript is turned over to the pub- St., immediately north of Dietrich Hall and west of the lisher for setting in type and the planning of a suitable Faculty Club. Faced with limestone, concrete and glass, cover and jacket. Galley and page proofs are returned as the building contains a 375-seat auditorium, classrooms, promptly as possible to the author for reading. In general, offices, studios for television, radio, cinematic and photo- an author may expect the total process of bringing a book graphic use, and a comprehensive communications library. out to take about 14 months from the time the manuscript The Annenberg School is a professional graduate school is accepted. This, Yoseloff says, compares with an average founded to prepare college graduates to deal responsibly of 10 to 11 months for commercial publishing houses, and with the complex problems of social communication, par- is about on a par with the time taken by other university ticularly those related to the mass media. Forty-five stu- presses. dents are now enrolled. "The University community has every right to be proud It is expected that graduates of the school will participate of the continuing output of publications by its own faculty," actively in the various fields of mass communications as Yoseloff said in his report as Director. "Of the 33 books creators, critics, teachers, executives and policy-makers in published in this fiscal year, 22 originated in the Univer- the years following graduation.