This post will be open to him in case it proves impossible for us to give him the status recommended. Appoint Abraham Wald to an assistant professorship at $3,600 (Wald is now a lecturer at $3,000, of which $2,400 is financed by a special grant, the continuance of which is not assured.Ī recent development in the case of Wald is an offer of a permanent post (presumably an assistant professorship) at Queens College. ![]() “…We feel that it is important, if at all possible, that the following action be taken. Haig, Chairman of the department of economics (pp. _ Promotion to Assistant Professorįrom the Novemletter to President Nicholas Murray Butler from Robert M. In this post we follow Wald’s Columbia career up through the faculty memorial minute that followed his tragic, untimely death in an airplane accident during a lecture tour in India in December 1950. ![]() ![]() Abraham Wald (1902-1950) got his foot into the Columbia economics department door thanks to a grant from the Carnegie Foundation arranged for him by Harold Hotelling in 1938.
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