In the culture of the school at the time, Mr. Donohue said, "intense relationships between faculty and students were permitted to exist, both for priests and lay teachers".
But he encountered intense dissatisfaction from faculty members, who issued a vote of no confidence, as well as students, who twice occupied university buildings.
Along the way, he faced intense opposition from faculty members, especially during the last decade of budget cuts at California's state universities, and survived a vote of no confidence.
Not surprisingly, at a school that was recently hailed by Mother Jones magazine as the most activist campus in the country, the moratorium has stirred intense debate at faculty meetings, in the student newspaper, on the blackboard the administration recently put up outside the campus center as an approved chalking site -- and in the occasional and now illicit chalkings.
It's fascinating that Amabile is recommending more knowledge of, and better access to, nontraditional science careers not as a way of escaping the intense competition for faculty posts, but as a means of enhancing research performance.
Although Shimer's trustees voted to close the college at the end of 1973, the school was saved by intense student and faculty fundraising.
No grades were given; evaluations were based on intense dialogues with faculty members and fellow students, and extensive, eclectic reading lists that participants were encouraged to develop on their own.
School faculties have intense workloads and are inundated with new programs and curriculum constantly.
Safe Science also mentions faculty independence and intense pressure for productivity as important sources of "potential conflict between a culture of safety and productive grant-supported research".
