Caption: Booklet - State of University (1958)
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Hut i w o u ld i not • of faculty p icipation in the organ! d life of t h • livei i t y — I OTiph; / the pi > the individual U f r and scholar. Our planning foi die future is not only for Ituden but t enable th ulty better to do its work with udents and to arlvan r carch. New buildings are important for new ci ohnenl but they ai ntial to give the sc holar the tools for proftl a ' ! Silent. ) nphasis on improvement in the salary structure has \ in p e n t budget presentations and it will ren irj B in tl O i J point Every effort to strengthen the University in quality . d import in the life of the stat and the nation is indirectly a support of the i ult As the University grows in pi itigC and is recognized for strength, faculty welfare is proportionately advanced. Some believe that University growth and I ulty welfare are. in competition. They advocate arbitrary limitations of size and ( pansion of function. In my opinion, this position does not recognize tin dynamii of institutional strength. T h e welfa; of the faculty is relat 1 to the normal and wholesome growth of the University. Support will be pr ired only for that which in the broad sens< is regarded a important. J a n s Conant has reminded us of the. continuing interrelationships o public understanding, normal growth, and faculty welfare. " T h r o u tl thousand years of university history, one fact has >od out; university have flourished when their teaching was relevant to the time university hav< withered when they clui to outworn discipline nd traditii . But lest w( rashly innovate for innovation's sak< we must i nber that universities have also sickened wl n they < itered rashly upon ne\. \ i 2 tures irrelevant to the problems of their times." As we translate our planning for the future into quali ive I whether we an discussing salaries or buildings or nev. progi l < remember that in so doing we are ( aling with the \ If of th ult\ Conant, Jamci B. "The Univenity and a Free Sot • (Historj of t I State Umvenity; Vol. V, Addrei > and 1'roceedingi of the I iiigurai of n Landu Bevif, October 24 and 25, 1940), Ohio State Un. I ig, ( ,|„, : 0 rd 104J
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