INSTRUCTORS WILL BE EXAM PROCTORS UNDER NEW RULING

Approximately 150 graduate students, who have in the past been employed by the Records Office as examination proctors, will be deprived of this work as a result of a new policy which has just been inaugurated, requiring course instructors to proctor their own examinations. The step was taken as an economy measure in order to avoid the reduction of salaries in the Records Office.

175 Courses Included

Heads of 175 courses under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received a letter from A. M. Hindmarsh, assistant dean in charge of Records, requesting that assistants and instructors be used as proctors in all examinations this year in lieu of the graduate students formerly furnished by the Records Office. No members of the faculty of higher rank than instructor will be affected. Large courses will be allowed on experienced proctor for each examination room.

Last year 300 graduate students were employed as proctors, being paid $1 an hour and working upon an average six or seven hours during the year. About 150 will be employed this year as head proctors and in courses given by professors without assistants. The saving in the budget of the Records Office will amount to approximately $3000 in the course of the year. All examinations are affected, not merely hour examinations.

General Economy Program

The measure was necessitated by a reduction in the budget of the Records Office, which is a part of a general economy program being pursued by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in an attempt to preclude the necessity of a general cut in salaries of faculty members. All departments have been asked to reduce their budgets. In the Records Office all other costs are fixed, so the only alternative to this measure would be a cut in salaries of those working in the office, according to Dean Hindmarsh.

The new policy will mean an addition of from eight to ten hours during the year to the work of instructors.