Harvey R. Kaslow
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Telephone, Fax, and email contact information

 

"I thought it was better to focus on changing yourself and people around you,
to not question authority so much as bypass it whenever possible."

      From an interview with John Perry Barlow.
See also "The Economy of Ideas"

 

 

The School of Medicine Governance Docoument

 

The Medical Faculty Assembly (MFA)

 

Tenure and Compensation at the USC School of Medicine
The 1990's......

Dean's Letter and Proposed Compensation Plans
The response:
In the news....

From the Provost....
USC financial situation....
Academic Senate Resolutions
and afterwards:  "How not to reform a medical school"
(from Academe)

 

   "It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on among us, but all do not look at it in the same light.  To some it appears to be novel but accidental, and, as such, they hope it may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency that is to be found in history.

   "Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it."

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America  1830

   "NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support....In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN'S SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL.... The plan of the convention accordingly has provided that the judges of the United States 'shall at STATED TIMES receive for their services a compensation which shall not be DIMINISHED during their continuance in office.'
     "It will readily be understood that the fluctuations in the value of money and in the state of society rendered a fixed rate of compensation in the Constitution inadmissible. What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate."

Alexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 79  c 1788

 

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