Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 15, April 9, 1973

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volume 13, number 15
April 9, 1973
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Appointment Forms For Faculty Revised
Faculty members will be receiving a revised type of faculty appointment form this year. Separate forms will be used for each faculty status—tenure-earning, tenured, term and part-time.
“The purpose of the revised forms is to identify more clearly the relationship between the faculty member and the University,” said Dr. Sidney Besvinick, associate dean of the faculties. “Each form, in addition to the usual salary and employment information, outlines the faculty member’s privileges and responsibilities accompanying his particular type of appointment.
“The revised forms do not, however, in any way change the relationship or status of the faculty member to or with the University.”
Dr. Besvinick said that the revision will provide adequate distinguishing features for the different kinds of appointments.
The form for tenure-earning faculty members quotes the faculty manual in defining this type of appointment. It also shows the date tenure will be earned.
The tenured faculty appointment form acknowledges the tenured status of the faculty member, while the term appointment form cites the specific duration of the appointment, usually on a year-to-year basis, and shows the date of termination.
The part-time faculty appointment form points out the rights and responsibilities of part-time faculty members and lists the specific course or courses to be taught.
“With the revised forms, we hope there will be no misunderstanding of a faculty member’s position,” Dr. Besvinick said.
The forms will be prepared and distributed to all faculty members as soon as possible after the budget is approved by the Board of Trustees, which should be about April 15.
University to Honor 37 New Founders
The Society of University Founders has added 37 new members, who will be honored by the UM Board of Trustees Friday, April 13, at the seventh annual formal banquet to be held at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach.
Mrs. Robert Z. (Nancy) Greene and Baron deHirsch Meyer are co-chairmen of the black tie affair. President Henry King Stanford will be host.
The University Founders either personally or through their organizations have committed a minimum of $50,000 to the support of the University since its founding as an independent institution in 1925. Membership currently numbers 259.
New founders, as of the publication date, are: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Alpern, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Cantisano, Jr., Wilbert E.
Chope, Mae Knight Clark, Dr. M. P. (Mickey) Demos, Marcella Doran Estate, Esther B.
Allen Edwards, Lisbeth and Edward C. Fogg III, Fund for Higher Education (In Israel), Amnon Barness, chairman, Paul R. and Hattye S. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Emil J.
Gould, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc.;
John Hertz, Leon Hess, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Hochwald, Henry A. Keller, M. Gordon, president, Koret, Inc., Mr. and Mrs.
David J. Light, Mrs. C. Ruxton Love, The Mailman Foundation, Inc., Mrs. Maytag McCahill, Florence and Brown McClelland, James W. McLamore and Nancy N. McLa-more, Nicholas H. Morley, Estate of George Neubert;
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Inc., Arnold and Muriel Rosen, Walter G. Ross Foundation of Washington, D.C., John F. Saxon, Alvin Sherman, Thomas L. Tatham, William H. Walker, Jr., Hortense and Joseph Weintraub, Western Electric Fund, WPLG-TV;
Two anonymous contributions.
Doctor of Arts Program Approved
Senate Endorses Housing Resolution
The Faculty Senate has endorsed the Resolution on Housing recently adopted by the UM Board of Trustees. To combat discrimination in housing, the resolution declares an “affirmative commitment to overcome the obstacles faced by University-employed Blacks and members of other minority groups seeking housing in Coral Gables and the surrounding communities.” The resolution was recommended to the Board and later to the Senate by the Minority Affairs Council because of several instances involving refusal of housing to black faculty members, either to purchase
Report Competition Opens
For the second year, the finance department is sponsoring competition to find the best annual reports of single banks and multi-bank companies in the nation.
Selection for two “Golden Ibis” awards will be made on the basis of excellence in information covered, design, layout, special effects, innovation and overall quality.
Judges will be from finance, accounting and graphic arts departments.
Last year’s winner was Virginia Commonwealth Bankshares (now Bank of Virginia Company) of Richmond. Six special merit awards and fifty honorable mention awards were also given. Some 700 annual reports were submitted in the competition.
or rent in Coral Gables and surrounding communities.
Ted Nichols, assistant to the president and director of the University’s affirmative action programs, is chairman of the Council.
A new three-year Doctor of Arts degree, designed specifically for those planning to enter undergraduate college teaching, will be instituted beginning in September 1973.
Director of the program will be Dr. M. A. F. Ritchie, professor of higher education.
The doctoral program was announced by President Henry King Stanford following its approval by the Academic Affairs Committee and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.
FIRST IN SOUTHEAST
Dr. Stanford noted UM is the first private university in the Southeast to offer the D.A., a program strongly endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and approved by the Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S.
Initially, the degree will be offered in the fields of education, engineering, English, foreign languages, international studies and physics, according to Dr. Clarence Stuck-wisch, dean of the Graduate School.
The D.A. differs from other doctoral programs in that it emphasizes broad cultural preparation rather than centering upon a research objective. Regardless of his major field of study, the candidate is required to take courses to acquaint him with the problems of institutions of higher education.
SUPERVISED INTERNSHIP
Included in the requirements will be a supervised internship in college teaching and a written project, which may consist of applied research or creative scholarly work relevant to college teaching.
Dean Stuckwisch had this comment on the new degree: “As with the Ph.D. program, a most important concern in establishing the D.A. program is the quality of the faculty. They must be knowledgeable in their respective disciplines, must be excellent teachers and should be philosophically and personally committed to the preparation of first rate college teachers.”
Dr. Ritchie, who has served as president of two colleges and is the author of The College Presidency: Initiation into the Order of the Turtle, said: “The Doctor of Arts
degree will provide a program geared to the real needs of prospective college teachers and their students. I believe its establishment in universities generally may play a significant role in restoring the teaching function to its rightful place on the American campus.’
In This Issue. . .
A recent visitor to UM’s School of Medicine was Vice Admiral Don L. Custis, M.C., USN (left), the newly appointed Surgeon General of the Navy. The purpose of his trip was to inspect the UM Naval Medical Student Scholarship Program, one of the most active in the nation, and to attend the commissioning of students into the program. Here he talks with Lt. J.G. William L. Hardy, a senior in medical school, and Dean Emanuel M. Papper, M.D. UM now has 35 students in the Navy program.
Judaic Studies Offered As Parallel Major
by Sharon Clark News Bureau
Keeping pace with a national trend, the University will inaugurate an undergraduate interdisciplinary program in Judaic studies effective September 1973.
The degree program will be offered as a parallel or double major, which must be taken concurrently with a disciplinary major, in the College of Arts and Sciences. It consists of 36 credits, 18 of which are requirements in Hebrew language, Jewish history and Jewish literature. In addition to the required courses, students must also take a minimum of 12 credits in one departmental discipline such as history, sociology, religion or language.
Many of the requirements in Judaic studies may also be used to meet the general education requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences.
A search is currently underway for a coordinator to administer the program which will be offered as an inter-departmental major with several departments within the University offering from one to four courses in Judaic studies on a regular basis.
Dr. Sidney Besvinick, associate dean of the faculties and director of academic planning, notes: “This program is not being offered as a discipline to provide religious preparation for students but as an objective appraisal of the contributions to our development by a significant segment of our society. Here is a facet of western civilization that has been almost totally ignored in terms of its cultural contributions to our society. It seems incomprehensible that such an important element of our heritage could be ignored in studies at most universities.”
UM is currently offering 10 courses in Hebrew and Judaic studies. They are Elementary and Intermediate Hebrew, Survey of Jewish Literature, History of the Jews in Modern Europe, Modern Near East History, Music of the Hebrew Cultures; Politics of the Middle East, the Hebrew Prophets, the Sociology of Jewish Americans and a sociology seminar.