ABSTRACT
Daily experience of university life makes it clear that among more junior academic staff there exists a measure of disaffection, amounting in extreme cases to social and political alienation from the university and its arrangements. New entrants to the profession need arrangements to facilitate the role-change which they have made and to equip them with the knowledge and instruments which they need for their development as professional men. The constitutions of most civic universities have located power firmly in the hands of what is now only a small minority of the academic staff, the professoriate. Many students seek to press upon him a combination of instructor and sage, and this is likely either to clash with his academic ideals or to reinforce any tendency he may have to regard his teaching as a mechanical chore to be dealt with in minimal fashion.
