Teaching Fellows Won't Get Pay Raise; Cut in Graduate Enrollment Considered

The Administration has issued a "white paper" turning down most of the requests made by the Federation of Teaching Fellows.

Although the paper, signed jointly by Dean Ford and John P. Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, leaves the way open for adjustments in the measurements of a fifth-time teaching load, it rules out increases in teaching fellows' pay "for the present or the immediate future."

The paper took direct issue with the Federation's claim that teaching fellows should be regarded, for salary purposes, as Faculty members employed by the University.

Instead, the Administration emphasized that it viewed the position of teaching fellow as essentially a fellowship, with an educational rather than a contractual relationship to Harvard.

In turning down the pay request, the paper called attention to the current deficit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and "the grim outlook for 1967-68."

The Administration suggested two possible modifications, one raising the junior rate of pay for teaching fellows to the higher senior level and the other raising the amount of the Staff Tuition Scholarship which GSAS guarantees to most teaching fellows. But both changes would entail corresponding reductions in other aspects of financial support for teaching fellows.

In an interview Wednesday, Elder contended that there could be no parallel between the teaching fellows' status and a labor-management situation. He pointed cut that Harvard is a non-profit organization with no pool of profits to distribute, and that teaching fellows are serving a kind of apprenticeship before they move on to higher-paying jobs.