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Last Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to table free speech. At least, that’s what anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 would have you believe. Matory, who has previously complained about academia??s pro-Israel bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat...
...Perhaps the real reason behind campuses’ discomfort with Islamo-Fascism Week lies less in Horowitz or other pundits’ undistinguished leadership credentials than in academia??s only tepid support for free speech itself...
...everything else.”Capasso says that Aizenberg will remain a leader in the university setting even though, he says, women scientists confront more obstacles in academia than in industry.“There is no question that in industry the glass ceiling is much less than in academia??in the real world you have to solve problems so you get talent from wherever you can find it,” says Capasso. “But I think she’s so damn good that this stuff is going to be irrelevant...
...Radcliffe Institute are able to engross themselves in their research without some of the usual burdens of academic life. “Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled to do so without the pressures so common in present day academia??[namely] to publish quantity rather than quality, and work for quick results,” explains Caroline W. Bynum, who chaired the committee that helped establish the Institute. With its origins in Radcliffe College, women’s studies and gender-related research still make up an important...
...Richard’s appointment at Cambridge in 2003 and Brodhead’s appointment at Duke the same year, seven highly touted higher education leaders have become ensconced in elite institutions elsewhere.In this storm of events, a low-profile dean was launched from a quiet research institution to academia??s loudest stage.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...