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Classroom Contacts

The leading administration officials,
who are faced with these
problems, include D. Alan Williams,
Dean of Student Affairs; David
Allen Shannon, Dean of the Faculty
of Arts and Sciences; Ernest H.
Ern, Dean of Admissions; Irby B.
Cauthen Jr., Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences; and the deans of
the other various schools of the
University.

All these men have accumulated
honors in their own academic
fields, but they do not merely hide
behind their sheepskins or a list of
honors. A major question in higher
education today is whether or not
administrators should continue to
teach classroom courses, in the face
of increasing charges that administrators
already have enough to
do without teaching burdens.