The file
Subtitle: case study in correction (1977-1979)
By: Serge Lang.
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
Subjects: Survey of the American Professoriate, 1977; Social surveys -- Case studies
Description: The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians,and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang's reaction to a questionnaire, "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate", distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a large group of active and passive participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at Harvard.
Notes: Chiefly correspondence between Serge Lang and others.
Includes index.