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The Teaching Personnel in American Political Science Departments: A Report of the Sub-Committee on Personnel of the Committee on Policy to the American Political Science Association, 1934

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John M. Gaus
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The Sub-committee on Personnel of the Committee on Policy of the American Political Science Association has the function of considering and reporting on problems relating to the selection, training, and employment of men and women whose training is primarily in the field of political science, and the study of political science in the education of those to whom it should be an essential part of a training program. The fields of possible employment would seem to be the following:

1. Teaching political science in (a) universities, (b) four-year colleges, (c) junior colleges, (d) normal schools and teachers colleges separate from universities, (e) secondary schools, and (f) other institutions.

2. Research work in connection with (a) universities and other institutions of learning, (b) government departments, (c) institutes and bureaus of government research outside universities, (d) political parties, farmers organizations, trade unions, chambers of commerce, taxpayers' associations, and similar interest groups.

3. Public service such as (a) general public administration, (b) technical staff services (personnel, finance, etc.), (c) professional line services (foreign service, engineering, etc.), (d) legislative drafting and reference service.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 1934 , pp. 726 - 765
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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References

1 Professor L. L. Bernard has gathered some materials on the early history of political science in the United States into his article on the social sciences as a discipline in the United States in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. I, pp. 324–349Google Scholar.

2 On Lieber, see especially Harley, Lewis R., Francis Lieber; His Life and Political Philosophy (N. Y., Columbia Univ. Press, 1899)Google Scholar.

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6 The list for 1912 is printed in a supplement to this Review, Vol. VII (1913). Recent lists have been mimeographed by the secretary-treasurer of the Association.

7 U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1932 Statistical Abstract, p. 102Google Scholar.

8 On teachers colleges and engineering schools, see Report of the Committee on Policy of the American Political Science Association, cited above, pp. 146–168.

9 In association memberships, the difference is considerable. The American Historical Association reports 3,336 and the American Economic Association 3,627 members. World Almanac, 1934, pp. 421, 422Google Scholar.

10 U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1932 Statistical Abstract, p. 104Google Scholar.

11 For the field of law, see Crawford, A. B., “The Legal Aptitude Test Experiment at Yale”, 7 Am. Law School Rev., 530 (1932)Google Scholar; 1 The Bar Examiner, 151 (1932)Google Scholar.

12 Social Science Research Council, Report of the Committee on Social Science Personnel (mimeographed), Sept., 1933, pp. 1–10Google Scholar.

13 American Political Science Association, Personnel Service, “Descriptive List of Fellowships and Scholarships Available to Graduate Students in Political Science,” December, 1931, 24 pp., mimeographed. This list was inaccurate in some respects when issued, and is also already partly out of date. It shows, however, the number of fellowships and scholarships involving no teaching or assistantship duties, and definitely allocated to political science or government, to be less than a dozen annually for all the leading universities and colleges. In 1931, there were, of course, many assistantships in political science departments involving such duties as teaching, paper reading, and research, but these have subsequently been much reduced in number.

14 On this point may be noted the work of Clark, Harold F., in Columbia Alumni News, Vol. XXIV (Oct. 14, 1932)Google Scholar, briefly summarized in Bull. of the A.A.U.P., Vol. XIX, pp. 169–170 (March, 1933)Google Scholar. For current conditions, see reports of Sumner Slichter, H. on “Economic Condition of the Profession”, in Bull. of the A.A.U.P., Vol. XIX, pp. 97–105 (Feb., 1933)Google Scholar; Vol. XX, pp. 105–111 (Feb., 1934).

15 See below, p. 758.

16 Social Science Research Council, Report of the Committee on Social Science Personnel (mimeographed), Sept., 1933, p. 8Google Scholar. See also the corresponding report of Sept., 1932.

17 Reed, Alfred Z., Training for the Public Profession of the Law (N. Y., 1921)Google Scholar, and also Present-Day Law Schools in the United States and Canada (N. Y., 1928)Google Scholar, espec. Chap. 14. See also Amer. Law School Review, which has recently printed many articles on this question, and especially the symposium on “What Constitutes a Good Legal Education”, in Vol. VII, pp. 887–909 (Dec, 1933)Google Scholar.

18 Frank, Jerome, in 7 Am. Law School Rev., 897 (Dec, 1933)Google Scholar.

19 Ibid., 889–890.

20 There are, of course, some notable exceptions to this statement, but they are exceptions, not the rule.

21 See Bull. of Am. Assoc. of Univ. Prof., Vol. XVIII, pp. 169–185 (March, 1932)Google Scholar, for a committee report on “Requirements for the Master's Degree”, and Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the Thirty-Third Conference of the Assoc. of Amer. Universities, 1931, pp. 45–57Google Scholar.

22 See this Review, Vol. XXIV, 711–736 (Aug., 1930).

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24 See Johnston, J. B., The Liberal College in Changing Society, pp. 276–282Google Scholar; also Bull. of Amer. Assoc. of Univ. Prof., Vol. XIX, pp. 173–200 (Mar., 1933)Google Scholar, for a vigorous criticism of present required courses in education for secondary school teachers.

26 Social Science Research Council, Report of the Committee on Social Science Personnel (mimeographed), Sept., 1933Google Scholar, and the corresponding report for 1932. See also supplement to Ann. Report of the S.S.R.C., 1931–32, on “Training for Research in the Social Sciences.”

26 1933 report, p. 13.

27 It is interesting to notice that the increase in the number of Ph.D.'s conferred in political science corresponds very closely with the numbers conferred in all fields. The figures follow: 1890, 126; 1900, 342; 1910, 409; 1920, 532; 1926, 1,302; 1928, 1,447; 1930, 2,024. See Statistical Abstract, 1932, p. 104Google Scholar.

28 As reported by the Bureau of the Census, the total number of collegiate students enrolled in American colleges and universities increased as follows: 1890, 173,691; 1900, 224,284; 1910, 332,696; 1920, 521,754; 1930, 971,584.

29 M. E. Haggerty, op. cit.

30 Our own recent personnel lists have included nearly all the young doctors in political science of recent years.

31 It should be noted that most of the men teaching political science in American colleges and universities are relatively young, and that the vacancies due to deaths and superannuation are at present relatively few.

32 See p. 758 below for the employment data on recent doctors in political science.

33 Supplement to this Review, Vol. XXIV (1930), pp. 154–159.

34 See materials referred to in note 14 above. The Bulletin of the A.A.U.P. during the past five years has had many items on the subject.

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36 See Amer. Jour. of Soc., Vol. 38 (Sept., 1932)Google Scholar, for announcement.

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