Problems of Faculty Morale

Abstract

During the early months of World War II industries were challenged to achieve maximum production with relatively limited personnel. This challenge interested some of our top research scholars. These scholars have given us several excellent studies that have pointed up how fundamentally important morale is for top performance on the part of those who must work cooperatively in industries in the military and in educational institutions. Some of the most fruitful theories and conclusions to be drawn from these studies will be applied here in an attempt to analyze and understand the problem of morale among teachers in Negro colleges. Just as industrial workers held a key position in our national life in the 1940's, teachers today on all levels, particularly college teachers, hold a strategic position in our struggle for national strength, and perhaps survival. Since the advent of the Russian sputnik a few months ago, even the most anti-intellectual in the country are beginning to realize that if our nation is to survive in the titanic competition in which it is now engaged with worldwide communism, it must be able to prepare its young people to compete at