John Dunlop Will Return to Harvard When Washington Job Ends June 30

John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor and former dean of the Faculty, will return to Harvard when the Cost of Living Council ends operations on June 30.

Dunlop confirmed yesterday he will come back to Harvard, and ruled out any new administrative positions with the University. "I have no interest in it [administration] whatsoever," he said.

Dunlop, an expert in labor relations and economics, said he has not yet decided what teaching duties he will assume, adding he will formulate his plans over the summer. As a University Professor, Dunlop is free to teach in any department.

The Senate voted in May to disband the Cost of Living Council, which administered wage and price controls during Phases III and IV of Nixon's economic policy. The Senate vote eliminated the post Dunlop has held since February 1973.

If the council had been continued past June 30--as Dunlop had urged--the former dean said he would have stayed on in Washington.

Dunlop refused to say whether he had been offered other government positions, but acknowledged that he will still do part-time consulting work for the president's new economic advisor, Kenneth Rush.

Rosovsky's Delighted

Dean Rosovsky, Dunlop's successor, said yesterday he had received no official word of Dunlop's return, but said he would be "delighted" to have him rejoin the Faculty. "It has always been my hope that he would return to his professorial role at the University," he said.

Since Dunlop was on a leave of absence, his return to the University is a routine matter requiring no special administrative approval, Rosovsky added.

Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, said yesterday that the Economics Department would be "enchanted" to have Dunlop teach labor and structural economics since the Faculty has "few people who have a first-hand knowledge of the American economy."

Dunlop was tapped to head the Cost-of-Living Council when President Nixon announced in 1973 the creation of the centralized agency with the responsibility for fighting inflation. Dunlop had since 1971 supervised anti-inflation controls as chairman of the Construction Industry Stabilization Board.

"In my resignation letter to President Bok, I said I was leaving to fight a problem I had dealt with for most of my life. Now that the job has ended, I am returning. It is as simple as that," Dunlop said.

While dean of the Faculty from 1970 to 1973, Dunlop personally supervised over 40 departmental budgets and drew up the preliminary goals for Harvard's affirmative action plan. He was known for his gruff tone and earthy wit.

He came to Harvard in 1938 as a teaching fellow in Economics, and became a professor of Economics in 1950. The Corporation appointed him a University Professor--one of six--in 1972, while he still served as dean.

Dunlop said that the transition back to University life will be a simple one, since he has commuted between Washington and Belmont almost every weekend over the last 16 "very busy months.