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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Bulletins by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FACULTY BULLETIN Volume 18 October 19, 1979 Number 1 Convocation Honors 30th Anniversary of Psychology Department Prominent Psychologists and 563 Day & Evening Students To Be Saluted

Two Anniversaries in Psychology will be commemorated as honorary degrees are pre­ sented to three prominent psychologists at La Salle College’s annual Fall Honors Convoca­ tion at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday (October 21) in the College Union Ballroom, on campus. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of La Salle’s Psychology Department as well as the 100th anniversary of the emer­ gence of psychology as an independent disci­ pline. Honorary doctor of science degrees will be presented to Drs. Anne Anastasi, Frank X. Barron, and Neal Miller as some 563 students— including 104 men and women from the college’s Evening Division and Weekend College—are honored for academic ex­ cellence. Brother President Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D., will preside. president for student affairs, will sponsor Dr. Anastasi for her degree. Dr. Barron, a member of La Salle’s class of 1942, will be sponsored by Dr. John J. Rooney, professor of psychology. Dr. Miller’s sponsor will be Brother John P. Dondero, F.S.C., Ph.D., also a professor of psychology at the college. Discussing plans for upcoming “ Youth and American Political System" seminar are (from left): Dr. Anastasi is known among students of John L. McCloskey, the college’s vice president for public affairs; U.S. Congressman Charles F. psychology for her widely used textbooks in Dougherty, and Howard J. Fetterhoff, executive director of the Pennsylvania Catholic the areas of tests and measurements and the Conference. psychology of individual differences. Her books include Differential Psychology, “Youth and American Political System” Psychological Testing, Fields of Applied Psychology, Individual Differences (editor), Seminar Slated and Testing Problems in Perspective (editor). Dr. Anastasi has also served as a research Some 450 students from 45 Philadelphia area parochial, public, and private high schools will consultant for the College Entrance participate in the seventh annual “Youth and the American Political System” seminar on campus Examination Board and as chairperson of the from 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. on Friday, Oct. 26. Research and Development Committee of the The event is being jointly-sponsored by U.S. Congressman Charles F. Dougherty, The CEEB. In 1972, she organized and chaired the Association of Catholic Teachers, and The Secondary School System of the Archdiocese of Educational Testing Service’s Invitational Philadelphia. Conference on Testing Problems and in 1977, “We hope to acquaint young people with the operation of the American political system by she was appointed to the newly constituted exposing them to politics, political leaders, and others in association with the system,” explained College Board Committee on the Scholastic Representative Dougherty, who is one of two dozen local, state, and federal government leaders Aptitude Test. expected to participate. Also speaking at the various workshops will be local business and labor leaders as well as news media representatives. The students will participate in discussions on four general topics during the day: “ Introduction to Politics,” “ Role of Special Interest Groups,” “The Media in Politics,” and “ Politicians and Issues.”

designated full professor of psychology in aesthetic education, and behavioral genetics 1951. She served as chairperson of the have been published in numerous journals, Psychology Department from 1968 to 1974. including Scientific American, Science, and the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. He has been a contributor to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the Encyclopedia Anne Anastasi Frank X. Barron of Mental Health, as well as an advisory editor of the Journal of Consulting Psychology. His Dr. Anastasi served in a number of executive most recent book, The Shaping of Personality, positions in the American Psychological was published this year. Association, including two terms on its board In addition to numerous grants and awards, of directors, and was elected its president in Dr. Barron has received the Outstanding 1971. She is also a trustee of the American Research Award of the American Personnel Psychological Foundation and was its and Guidance Association, the Richardson President from 1965 to 1967. Neal E. Miller Creativity Award of the American Psy­ A native of New York City, she received her chological Association, and the Citation of A.B. from Barnard College in 1928 and her The psychology of creativity is the topic for Merit of the National Association for the Study Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University which Dr. Barron is best known. His widely of Gifted Children. in 1930. Her professional academic career read Creativity and Psychological Health Dr. Barron was born in Lansford, Penn­ began at Barnard College, then continued at (1963) remains a major work on the topic of sylvania. After studies at La Salle and at Queens College. In 1947, she joined the faculty creativity. His studies on imagination, of Fordham University, where she was psychotherapy, experimental aesthetics, Continued on page 2 Continued from page 1 personality, psychotherapy, and social is one of only three behavioral scientists to psychology. He is known especially for have received the President’s Medal of Cambridge University, he completed his M.A. experimental and theoretical work on drive Science. He received this award from Lyndon at the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. at acquisition, the nature of reinforcement, and Johnson in 1965. the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. the study of conflict. Since the 1950’s, he has A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Miller Barron has held teaching positions at Bryn turned his attention to the physiological received his B.S. from the University of Mawr College, Harvard University, Wesleyan mechanisms underlying drive and reinforce­ Washington, his M.A. from Stanford University, University, and was a Fellow at the Center for ment. Numerous applied areas, including and his Ph.D. from Yale University. After Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. From biofeedback, owe a debt to Dr. Miller’s work. He several years at the Institute of Human 1952 to 1969, he was research psychologist at has authored or co-authored five books and Relations, he traveled to Vienna to secure his the University of California, Berkeley. Since made numerous contributions to journals and training in psychoanalysis. After additional 1969, Dr. Barron has been professor of handbooks. years at the Institute of Human Relations and psychology at the University of California, Dr. Miller holds honorary degrees from four as a researcher for the United States Army Air Santa Cruz, and chief of the Laboratory for the universities, including Pennsylvania and Corps, he returned to Yale University to Psychological Study of Lives at the same Michigan. He is a member of the National become James Rowland Angell Professor of university since 1974. Academy of Science, has been president of the Psychology. In 1966, Dr. M iller became Dr. Miller is well known to students of American Psychological Association, and has professor of psychology and head of the psychology in a number of areas. He has made received the Warren Medal of the Society of Laboratory of Physiological Psychology at important contributions to the fields of Experimental Psychologists. Professor Miller Rockefeller University.

Recent Faculty & Staff Activities, Appearances, & Publications

During the past summer, Brother Ellis served the Management of Anxiety: A Feminist Guest Appearances on a Middle States committee evaluating the Reading of Alien". In addition her paper on five-year reports of member institutions and “ Ideology, Nurturing, and Power in North and was a discussion leader at the National South” w ill be presented at the Modern Conference on Church-Related Colleges and Language Association convention this Bernier, Joseph J., assistant professor, Universities, at Notre Dame. December. psychology, is serving as a member of the planning committee for the annual conference Hennessy, Dr. Arthur L., associate professor, Perfecky, Dr. George A., associate professor, of the regional branch of the National history, spoke last March at Mt. St. Joseph’s Russian, delivered a paper, “the Galician- Association of Student Personnel Administra­ Academy in Flourtown on “ China Today: Volynian Chronicle as a Source of the tors. Bernier is also serving as counselor/- Impressions of My Visit,” and at Bucks County Bykhovets Chronicle” at Harvard Univesity, monitor for the athletes at La Salle, Community College on the same topic. Dr. May 26, 1979, which has been accepted for succeeding Dr. Peter J. Filicetti who served in Hennessy also gave a paper at the Middle publication in the Harvard Ukrainian Studies that post for the last few years. States Association of Catholic College and will deliver a paper entitled “ Russification Historians last April in Erie, Pa., on “ Our 20th and Literary Attempts To Avoid It in the Soviet Buch, Dr. Joshua, associate professor, finance, Century WASP State Dept ” , and a talk last Ukraine” at the Philadelphia Branch of the has been asked by the U.S. Office of Education February entitled “The 1940’s” at the George Ukrainian Catholic University of Pope St. to serve on a panel selecting grant recipients School in Newtown, Pa., sponsored by the Clement in Rome, November 27, 1979. for international studies programs. Bucks County Park and Recreation Society. In addition he appeared on September 29th on Rudnytzky, Dr. Leo D., professor, Germanic Butler, Dr. James A., professor, English, has WBCB, Levittown, Pa., on an hour program on and Slavic Languages, lectured this summer on been named assistant editor of the 20-volume the Middle East Today. Ukrainian and Comparative Literatures at international Cornell Wordsworth Series and various Institutions in London, Rome and will thus share in National Endowment for the Hornum, Finn, chairperson, sociology, served Munich. He also participated in the Congress Humanities summer support for the project. He as moderator at a student symposium entitled “ Kirche in Net” (Church in Need) held in has also been selcted to edit Lyrical Ballads for “Careers in Corrections” at the Annual Meeting Koenigsstein, Germany, during the third week the series. of the American Correctional Association held of July, 1979. at the Civic Center in Philadelphia last August. Ciesla, Dr. Casimir, professor, economics, at Vernot, Brother Gerard, F.S.C., Ph.D., assistant the invitation of the Polish Academy of Joglekar, Dr. Prafulla, assistant professor and professor, education, recently gave a talk on Sciences attended the Congress of Scholars of chairperson, management, has been con­ “ Effective Parent-Teenager Relationships: The Polish Descent, July 20-25, 1979 at the ducting for the Smith Kline Corporation a Process and the Product,” to a parent study Jagiellonian University in Cracow and review of methodologies of cost-benefits on group in a local parish. delivered a paper entitled “TheDeterminantsof health care programs. The review, which has Technological Progress in U.S. Manufactur­ been extended twice, is now in its final phase Vogel, Robert M., instructor, education and ing” which will also be published in a Book of and is expected to be published as a director of audiovisual services, participated in Papers of the Congress. monograph soon. The Smith Kline Corporation the Annual Conference of Big Brothers/Big is also sponsoring Dr. Joglekar for an intensive Sisters of America in San Francisco last June. Dallery, Dr. Arleen B., assistant professor, post-graduate course in clinical pharmacology He was also involved as a session leader philosophy, will serve as moderator at the at the University of Rochester, Oct. 28 to Nov. 2, concerning the video training component of meeting of the Society for Phenomenological 1979. He has also been invited to be a the citizen Board Development Program and Existential Philosophy at Purdue Univesity discussant at a session on “the Political implemented nationally. in November and will give a talk to the Economy Approach to Economic Growth- Philosophy Club at La Salle entitled Inflation and Social Rigidities” at the Southern Warner, Brother Thomas, F.S.C., director of the “ Profession: Theory and Practice?” on October Economic Association Conference, Nov. 9, Library, is serving as a member of the 30. 1979. In addition, two of Dr. Joglekar’s papers Evaluating Team for Reconstructionist have been accepted for presentation at the Rabbinical College. Ellis, Brother Patrick, F.S.C., Ph.D., president ORSA/TIMS national conference in Washing­ and professor, English, will chair the Personnel ton, D.C. in May, 1980. Weiner, Tina-Karen, assistant cataloguer, will Affairs Committee of the Pennsylvania serve as a representative to the Conference of Association of Colleges and Universities for Newton, Dr. Judith, associate professor, National Library and Information Associations, the coming year. On October 9, he spoke at English, presented two papers at the Summer Joint Committee on Cataloguing, and as Girard’s Community Leadership Seminar, Institute on Culture and Society, June 23 to chairperson of the National Catholic Library taking the educational phase of the topic July 13 in St. Cloud, Minn.: “Toward a Theory Association, Roundtable on Cataloguing and “Resources for a Civilized Philadelphia.” of Women’s Oppression” and “ Mass Media as Classification. Graduate Program Workshops Conferences Begins in Pastoral Bernier, Joseph J., assistant professor, Buch, Dr. Joshua, associate professor, finance, psychology, presented a workshop on attended the Academy of International Counseling Decision-Making as part of a program for La Business Convention last June. Salle College student leaders in September La Salle introduced a graduate program in and attended a workshop on Structured Ellis, Brother Patrick, F.S.C., Ph.D., president “ Pastoral Counseling” this summer, under the Groups held at the University of Pittsburgh. and professor, English represented the direction of the Rev. Leo M. Van Everbroeck, Brothers’ Colleges at the recent meeting of the C.I.C.M., the director of the college’s graduate Feden, Preston, D., assistant professor, Christian Brothers’ Conference in Toronto. division in religious education. education, and Vogel, Robert M., instructor, Offered in collaboration with the college’s education, conducted a three day workshop for Hoersch, Dr. Alice L., assistant professor, psychology department, the 48 credit program parents of handicapped children entitled geology, attended the New England Inter­ is designed for anyone (laity, clergy, religious) “Special Children Deserve Special Parents.” collegiate Geological Conference at Rens­ who seek professional training in individual This workshop was funded through the Urban selaer Polytechnic Institute in October and will and group counseling in the context of faith- Studies Center in cooperation with the parents attend the Geological Society of America orientation. It is useful for people working in of the Greentree School in Germantown. Convention in San Diego in November where schools, parishes, health, social, or special Vogel, also conducted a five day workshop for she will be giving a talk entitled “ Diffusion educational service, rehabilitation programs the Philadelphia Humanistic Education Center Controlled Growth of Layered Calc Silicate and marriage counseling. entitled “Ourdoor Adventure Training Through Nodules.” In addition to 360 hours of practical clinical Group Processes” last May. experience,the curriculum includes courses on religious issues which may have a positive or negative influence on normal human development as well as courses designed to develop understanding of and skills in individual and group counseling. The program is very flexible. Students can take courses during summer sessions only; in a combination of summer sessions and spring and fall semesters, or in spring and fall semesters only. The summer session, however, requires full-time attendance four days a week for six weeks. During the spring and fall semesters, courses will be offered on Fridays from 1:30 to 10:00 P.M. Students can begin their program of studies either in the summer session or in the fall session.

Grants and Awards

Dallery, Dr. Arleen B., assistant professor, Recipients of Lindback Foundation awards for distinguished teaching in 1978-79 were Paul R. philosophy, participated in the NEH Summer Brazina, C.P.A. (left), assistant professor of accounting, and Brother William J. Martin, F.S.C., Seminar Fellowship on “ Professions: Servants S. T.D., associate professor of religion. or Masters?” at New York University.

Kerlin, Dr. Michael K., professor, philosophy, under a grant from Syracuse University and the American Enterprise Institute attended a week Offices Attained long seminar on “ Mediating Structures” at the Butler, Dr. James A., professor, English, was Airlie House in Airlie, Virginia. recently elected a Trustee of Dove Cottage (the Wordsworths’ home) in Grasmere, England. Newton, Judith, associate professor, English, has received an ACLS Grant-in-Aid toward Ellis, Brother Patrick, F.S.C., Ph.D., president completion of her book, “Women, Power, and and professor, English, has begun to serve as a Ideology: Studies in the Social Strategy of Women’s Fiction.” trustee of S. Mary’s College, Winona, Minnesota, and will soon join the Board of Manhattan College.

Hennessy, Dr. Arthur L., associate professor, history, has been elected Secretary-Treasurer Tour of Egypt of Upper Southampton Township. Planned Perfecky, Dr. George A., associate professor, Russian, is serving as Secretary of the Old Rus’ Rev. Raymond F. Halligan, O.P., assistant Literature session at the annual convention of professor of religion, will conduct another the American Association of Teachers of Slavic educational tour of Egypt from January 3-13. and East European Languages for 1979 and Anyone wishing to participate or knowing has been elected chairperson of the anyone interested in joining the group is Russification Section at the Permanent Brother William Quinn, F.S.C., Ph.D., invited to contact the Special Activities Office. Conference of Ukrainian Studies, held at associate professor of mathematics, rode his This tour is open to all members of the La Salle Harvard University. ten speed bicycle 3,600 miles across the U.S. College community (faculty, staff, students, this summer. The former provincial of the alumni) as well as their friends. Weiner, Tina-Karen, assistant cataloguer, has Baltimore Province of the Christian Brothers Make reservations early because space is been elected Treasurer of the Tri-State College completed the journey from Portland, Ore., limited. Library Cooperative. to Ocean City, N.J. in about 10 weeks. Recent Full-Time Faculty and Administrative Appointments

Michael Benthin Maria Theresa McCormick David L. George Francis X. Healy, Jr. Marijke van Rossum-Wijsmuller Instructor Instructor Instructor Assistant Professor Instructor Biology Education Economics Economics Mathematical Sciences

Donna M. Colombano Barbara Levy Simon Edward J. Bader Jack K. Weaver, C.P.A. Lisa Liem Instructor Instructor Instructor Instructor Instructor Sociology Sociology Accounting Accounting Finance

Gerard T. Olson Shy Berger Jack M. Rappaport Brother Arthur J. Bangs, Ph.D. Brother Lawrence Colhocker Instructor Instructor Instructor Director, American Program Coordinator Finance Management Management University of Fribourg Instructional Resource Center

Brother Gerald Fitzgerald Brother Alfred Grunenwald Richard Walsh Linda M. Johnston H. Keith Mosley Assistant Director Resource Information Administrative Assistant Director Director Admissions Library MBA,Business Equal Opportunity, Capital Campaign Administration Personnel Officer

Patricia Abbott Robert A. Bonfiglio Suzanne BoyII, Ph.D. Ronald C. Diment Christine A. Lysionek Counselor Assistant Director Counseling Psychologist Director Assistant Director Financial Aid Student Life for Union Counseling Center Resident Life Student Life Perfecky, Dr. George A., associate professor, Recent Publications Russian, has published his review of Henry R. Guides & Reports Cooper’s “The Igor Tale: An Annotated Buch, Dr. Joshua, associate professor, Bibliography of Twentieth Century Non-Soviet Available In finance, has published “Are We Fooling Scholarship on the Slovo o polku Igoreve Nature” in Tradelook, May 1979, his article (Columbia Slavic Studies) in the Slavic and Counseling Center “The Oil Crisis: Myths & Facts” will be East European Journal (Autumn, 1979). Dr. published in Tradelook, November 1979. Perfecky’s review of Yar Slavutych’s “Zibrani Tvory: 1938-1978” , a 400 page collection of the The referral of students by the faculty to the Fair, Dr. Theopolis, associate professor, author’s poetry, will appear in the Nationalities Counseling Center has increased considerably during the past year. Faculty members are history, has had his article, “The Impact of the Papers in 1980. New World on Spain: Some Social Aspects” encouraged to refer students who are ex- published in The Journal of the Great Lakes perencing academic, social, emotional, or History Conference, #2, 1979. Pfeiffer, Dr. Mark, associate professor, interpersonal difficulties. Referrals can be psychology and Schuler, Major Lucius, facilitated by calling one of the counselors at Fitzgerald, Eugene, associate professor, assistant professor, military science, and extension 1355. philosophy, contributed to the reference work, others have published two government The 1979-80 Guide to Graduate and Pro­ Human Sexuality Methods and Materials for technical reports entitled, “ Background Data fessional School Admissions is available in the the Education, Family Life and Health for Human Performance in Continuous Counseling Center. This is a helpful publica­ Professions, Vol. I, Heuristicus Publishing Co., Operations Guidelines” and “ Human tion for seniors contemplating graduate or Brea, Calif. Ed. Ronald S. Daniel, Ph.D., Performance in Continuous Operations professional school. Also available is a report California State Polytechnic U., Pomona, Guidelines.” based on the “ Philosophical Orientation to California. College for La Salle Freshmen, 1979.” The Counseling Center also has application Hoersch, Dr. Alice L., assistant professor, Rudnytzky, Dr. Leo D., professor, Germanic forms for the following Graduate School geology, will publish in late fall a paper in the and Slavic Languages, has published three Examinations: Graduate Record Examination, Scottish Journal of Geology e n title d articles this year: 1) “ Ivan Franke et La Law School Admission Test, and Graduate “ Progressive metamorphism of the chert­ Litterature Allemande” in Actes de la Journee Management Admission Test. bearing Durness limestone in the Beinn an Ivan Franke (Sorbonne University Press, Paris, The Center is a certified agency for the Dubhaich aureole, Isle of Skye, Scotland: a re­ and Ukrainian Free Univesity Press, Munich, administration of the Miller’s Analogies Test. examination.” 1979), pp. 83-95. 2) A “Commentary” on Prof. Grabowicz’s article “ New Directions in Lashchyk, Dr. Eugene M., associate professor, Ukrainian Poetry in the United States” in The philosophy, has had the following paper Ukrainian Experience in the United States: A published in the Proceedings of the 6th Symposium, (Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, Eight Faculty International Congress of Logic, Methodology 1979), pp. 17-187. 3) Introduction to Ivan and Philosophy of Science, August 1979: “A Franke’s The Master’s Jests translated by Members Win Framework for a Solution to the Rationality Roman Tatchyn, (The Schevchenke Scientific Problem.” Society, New York), 1979, pp. 9-13. Dr. Prestigious Grants Rudnytzky’s article “Past Encounters with a Newton, Dr. Judith, associate professor, Future Pope” published in La Salle (Winter, Eight La Salle College faculty members were English, will have her review of Nina 1978-79) is quoted in the newest and most awarded a National Endowment for the Auerbach’s “ Communities of Women” definitive biography of Pope John Paul II, Pope Humanities grant for summer study in 1979, it published in Victorian Studies this fall. Also, John Paul II: A Festive Profile by Fr. Ludvik was announced by Brother Emery her article “ Feminism and Anxiety—in Alien" Nemec, Ph.D., S.T.D., (Catholic Book Mollenhauer, F.S.C., Ph.D., provost of the will appear in Social Text. Publishers, New York, 1979). college. The recipients of these prestigious grants, their location of study, and topics were: Brother Daniel Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., the college’s president emeritus and a professsor of English, to the University of Colorado (“ Narrative Structures and the Concept of Coherence”); Dr. James Butler, professor of English, to Grassmere, England through Cornell University (William Wordsworth studies); Dr. Arleen B. Dallery, assistant professor of philosophy, to Yale University (“ Professions: Servants or Masters” ); and Dr. Michael Dillon, professor of political science,to Concord, Massachusetts (New England Transcendentalism). Also: Dr. Richard T. Geruson, associate professor of economics, to the State University of New York at Stonybrook (“ Urbanization and Social Change”); Dr. Patricia Haberstroh, assistant professor of English, to Yale University (“Moral Dimensions in the Poetry of Our Time”); Dr. Miroslav Labunka, associate professor of history, to Yale University (“ Studies in the History of Eastern Thought” ); and Dr. Rita Mall, associate professor of French, to Princeton University (“ Fiction & the Themes of Revolution in 19th Century France").

La Salle College Faculty Bulletin College Council honored four members of the La Salle College family who celebrated 25 years of Volume 18 October 19, 1979 Number 1 service to the college last spring. Receiving plaques from Brother President Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Published by the News Bureau for the Ph.D. (left) were: Drs. Domenico A. DiMarco, associate professor of Italian and Classics; Mark faculty and staff of La Salle College twice Guttmann, associate professor of physics, and Joseph P. Mooney, professor of economics. Elvira a year, in October and in April. Beltramo, cataloguer, also celebrated her silver anniversary last year. Point of View. This is reprinted with permission from The Chronicle By Wendell V. Harris of Higher Education, October 1, 1979, at the request of Brother Emery Mollenhauer, F .S.C., Ph.D., provost. Oh, the Tediosity o f It A ll

ILLUSTRATION FOR THE CHRONICLE BY SUSAN DAVIS

he crusty chairman of the English de­ needed. On the other hand, having learned a lesson understand is that paper is one of the best of partment in which I had my first aca­ from the ending of the boom in teacher education, insulators. If surrounded by enough of it you never demic appointment used to describe espe­ state higher-education coordinating agencies today need come into contact with the problems that cially harrowing days as being like a trip are inclined to predict the same thing of business generated it. The fact is that one can devote time T and energy to effectively supporting equal opportu­ through Hell in a paper shirt. I suspect all academic enrollments, even though these are not the function administrators have such days. One likes to think of anything so finite as the number of school-age nity, social justice, and environmental protection they are balanced by a few days on which the good children. only if one’s legal counsel does battle every time a fight is fought and perhaps even a few victories for Moreover, there is a certain perversity in the government agency tries to exceed the letter of the humane rationality are won. readiness of staff members at the highest levels of law in these areas. But unfortunately there is another kind of day educational planning to take their tools from the But of course not all mischief is imposed from that seems to come around more and more frequent­ scrap-heap. The program budgeting system es­ afar. The most immediate source is the centripetal ly: those days on which academic administration poused by the champions of the tfx airplane, the pull of the in-box. The insidious ease with which seems neither hellish nor heroic, but simply hollow. Edsel, and the Vietnam war apparently still retains photocopy machines allow the most trifling matter “Stale, flat, and unprofitable” are the words Hamlet its countenance of legitimacy among refugees of the to reach the desk of everyone who might be in the would apply to them—while those of that latter-day balmy McNamara days who have found shelter in least tangentially concerned and the contemporary philosopher, Sylvester of the Bugs Bunny comic state bureaucracies. Similarly, zero-based budget­ expectation that one should have the opportunity to strip, would be “ Oh, the tediosity of it all.” ing, whose time has not only come but passed if the offer one’s advice (one’s “input” in the term so dear As I return to the happier pastures of literature Harvard Business School understands such things, to those who have difficulty discriminating between and writing after nine years of university-level is welcomed as a new revolution. human minds and computer terminals) to everyone administration, I should like to hazard three causes Of each such system one wishes to say what on everything can keep one’s days filled with the of increasing administrative melancholy and dyspep­ Edmund Burke said of the French National Assem­ drafting of responses to trivia. sia together with certain remedial tactics. bly: “Its improvements are superficial, its errors However, if one is to effectively influence cur­ One of the exorbitant taxes on administrative fundamental.” The only defense at the university riculum changes, program planning, recruitment time and spirit, at least in public institutions, is level, I fear, is to add a shadow staff that is kept patterns, and the setting of priorities, one has to be exacted by the confusion in state-level agencies informed of all planning and policy decisions, and out peregrinating among the programs themselves. between coordination and management, auditing provided all data, so that it may function like the One needs to be actively looking for opportunities and decision-making, review and supervision, stra­ British Foreign Office, keeping the diplomatic lines to assess campus moods, encounter deficiencies and tegic planning and tactical operations. The problem open, attending to the necessary ceremonies, and complaints at first hand, and, above all, offer is that the more conscientious the staff of a coordi­ assessing the ramifications of actions by foreign suggestions at various levels, in various milieux, nating board or other-level agency, the less comfort­ powers while the Home Office gets on with the and with various degrees of formality and informal­ able it is with the difficulties of knowing from its essential business. Academic administrators can in ity. One needs to remember, in short, that one’s rearward command post whether the right decisions no way afford to ignore whatever statewide coordi­ desk is like a fortification: good for defense and are really being made out there on the front lines. nating, auditing, and budgeting agencies may exist; consolidation but useless for advance. The solution that naturally suggests itself is to neither can they let them cut into the day-to-day gather more information. But an increase in reports, problem-solving and internal planning that have am aware that what I have suggested about reviews, budgetary detail, and tabular displays been their responsibilities since long before such keeping one’s own eye on improving aca­ somehow doesn’t help. The natural response then is agencies began to make importunate demands. demic programs while staff with no other that even more is needed. And so it goes, reminding An equally obvious expense of spirit in a waste of I responsibilities is charged with improving the one of Santayana’s identification of the not uncom­ paper results from the regulatory fecundity of feder­ external reports on those programs, looking after mon phenomenon of “the repeated redoubling of al agencies. The sins against which even the most the spirit of equal opportunity while legal counsel effort as a result of having forgotten your aim.” Or vexatious federal regulations affecting universities looks after the letter, and being jealous of the perhaps, more simply of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. are directed are real: It is only the long-term intrusion of the irrelevant and trivial may sound like In the meantime, back at the university, review is efficacy of the agencies that seek to exorcise these a retreat from leadership. But then no one ever led a added to report is added to mission statement is sins that is illusory. Discrimination against women successful campaign by riding off in all directions. added to requests for ever new displays of data. The and members of minorities has been and continues It was in 1908 that Irving Babbitt wrote, “The fact is that there is a direct correlation between to be a dismal fact; it will not be cured by insistence task of organizing and operating a large and com­ distance from the action and the lust for data. While on the formula “Equal Opportunity Employer” at plex machinery has left us scant leisure for calm the letter killeth, the column of data mummifies; the end of every advertisement and at the bottom of reflection.” Seventy additional years have fenced us between the two the spirit of educational enterprise every sheet of stationery. round with routine meetings, barricaded us behind has an exceedingly hard time of it. piles of paper, immersed us in external directives. Indeed, the emphasis given the particular kinds of igher education's lack of concern for the The daily battle is to avoid confusing the clanking of data on which statewide boards make decisions is handicapped has been deplorable; it will administrative machinery with what Newman called likely to warp the very processes they are designed be only superficially remedied by the the Idea of the University—without such an Idea, to monitor. Unfortunately, coordinating agencies H mandate that every institution cobble to­ all administrative effort is mere vanity and vexation are like armies, always doomed to be preparing to gether makeshift ways of making all its programs of spirit. fight the last war. Examples are everywhere. Many minimally accessible to every possible kind of a state continued to encourage new degree pro­ handicap. It may indeed be said of h.e.w.’s legions: Wendell V. Harris, who has served as associate grams—often at the expense of established ones— “Never have so many been given so much power to provost at Northern Illinois University and acting long after the falling birth rate and leveling-off of the effect so little of value by the regulation of what academic vice-president and provost at Pennsylvania percentage of high-school graduates going on to they understand so meagerly.” State University, is now head of the English depart­ college should have signaled that they wouldn’t be One of the things no federal agency seems to ment at the latter institution.