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Associate Professor be re-established to  \nIn University Values and University  \nAssociate Professors  \nretain highly qualified teachers or to attractstaff capable of taking responsibility under a  \nOrganization',a paper written for a meeting  \nand Lecturers  \nof Commorwealth Vice-Chancellors in 1971  \nBetween 1910 and 1919 enrolments in-  \nProfessor for the teaching and development  \nin Ghana,and later published in Minerva  \ncreased by a factor of five and prices by a  \nof a particular field of study.The Senate  \n(Vol.X.No.2,April 1972),I wrote that the  \nfactor of two.That greatly reduced the pro-  \nevolution of major differences in status in the  \nadopted the Board proposalthat the grade be  \nportion of expenditure financed from the  \nre-established and that Associate Professors  \nacademic profession deserved further study:  \nnot be members of the Professorial Board.  \nGovernment Endowment and private bene-  \nI thought it likely that financial constraints  \nactions such as the Great Challis Bequest.  \nThat decision reflected the increase in hier-  \nhad been influential and that with the in-  \nThere was pressure on the University to in-  \narchy that accompanied the growth of mana-  \ncrease in the size of the academic profession  \ncrease and keep staff,pressure to appoint  \ngerial problems in large Departments.  \njudgements had been made ^that scholars not  \ncheap grades of staff,and pressure to main-  \nof the highest class would have to be ap-  \nSenior Lecturers and Tutors  \ntain a high proportion of short-term contracts  \npointed and that this should be reflected in  \nEnrolments started to increase even before  \ngiven the uncertainty of government grants  \nstatus and responsibility'.I pointed also to  \ndecided annually.Professors had declined  \nthe end of the Second World War,and to pro-  \nthe need to re-examine the roles of hierarchy,  \nvide for the retention and recruitment of  \nfron about 50 per cent of full-time staff in  \nwhich had increased in large universities,  \nsuitable staff the Senate in 1944 created the  \n1900 to 25 per cent by 1919.  \nand collegiality.  \ngrade of Senior Lecturer for all who had  \nIn 1919 the University received the Mc-  \nRecently David Wood and I completed a  \nCaughey Bequest.and used a substantial part  \nbeen Lecturers for 10 years or more,and  \nmonograph on Status and Leadership in theUniversity of Svdney,1850-1985,and my  \nprovided for the possibility of the promotion  \nof the income to establish from 1920 four  \nChairs and five Associate Professorships.  \npaper today is based on that monograph.  \nFour other Associate Professorships were  \nThe University of Sydney started with  \nalso created in 1920.  \nthree Professors chosen by the best academic  \nThe creation of Associate Professorships  \njudges in England.As the number ofstudents increased they were given part-time  \nfollowed a report of the Professorial Board  \nwhich proposed five grades of teaching staff  \nassistance by suitably qualified graduates  \n一Associate Lecturers and Demonstrators,  \nresident in the colony at the time.They were  \nLecturers and Demonstrators.Assistant Pro-  \ngivena variety of titles,including Reader.In  \nfessors,Associate Professors and Pro-  \n1866 a full-time position of Reader in  \nfessors.Senate agreed to establish the two  \nGeology and Mineralogy and Demonstrator  \nextra grades of Lecturer and Associate Pro-  \nin Practical Chemistry was created.Then in  \nfessor.The Associate Professors were to be  \n1880 two full-time Lecturers were ap-pointed.another in 1884,and a fourth in  \nused to retain exceptionally good teachers  \nwhen no Chair was available or to appoint a  \n1888.The first Reader bccame a Professor in  \nperson to take charge of a branch of a subject  \n1870,one of the Lecturers became Registrar  \nwhich would have a full Chair were funds  \nand the other three became Professors in  \navailable,or to help the 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