Word: 1960s
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Thirty years ago, most every department was dominated by senior faculty who received their Ph.D.s from Harvard. And a significant portion of those scholars attended the College as well. Maier remembers that as a graduate student at the University in the late 1960s, the ranks of the senior faculty were filled from a network of former Harvard students. "People would place their Ph.D. candidates by calling up colleagues at other universities and asking if they had a position," says Maier...
...sciences and mathematics departments were the first to make some changes in the 1960s. The Mathematics Department looked to foreign universities, including Soviet institutions, to bolster its ranks. The Government and Economics Departments branched out more in the 1970s, and the last departments to appoint more broadly have been History and the humanities...
Author Nicholas Lemann in The Promised Land -- his best-selling study of black migration from the South -- demonstrates that "community action" became a linchpin of the 1960s War on Poverty, even though few policymakers understood its mischievous implications. Lemann quotes a key Johnson Administration official as saying that community action (mobilizing the poor to pressure the local political establishment) "might lead somewhere, but we didn't know where." What makes this historical point relevant and disconcerting is that the same can be said about current White House support for unrestricted Choice: no one knows what it will produce...
...questions of race and class. So too with Choice: What would it mean for students trapped in the holding-pen schools of the inner city? What are its implications for racial balance in the South, where the very word Choice conjures up white flight to private academies in the 1960s and '70s? Can the nation offer parents true educational Choice without formally abandoning the ever-elusive goal of school desegregation...
This was true from the beginning. First-year seminars were started in the 1960s, as an alternative type of education, something completely outside of the mainstream course offerings. The seminars were (and still are) portrayed as a special perk freely available to anyone who had survived Harvard's cutthroat admissions process...