Frank Kastor was chairman of the department. The annual report from 1974-75 is very much focused on statistics, and lots of issues about operating costs and a lack of resources for the department. Castor notes issues in the department: 鈥淕rowing pressure from college and university administrators to increase credit hour production even further 鈥� but without allocating additional resources to the department 鈥� will continue to adversely affect many of our programs. (The graduate program is already feeling that pressure.) As resources continue to go into programs other than literature and linguistics or to be drained from literature programs, more and more of our program will experience problems, such as declining credit hour production, new limitations on course offerings (both number and type), declining morale internal friction among our faculty, and so forth.鈥� This feels relevant now, just under fifty years later, so it is included here.
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