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...many ways, these conservative colleges and their devoted students are fighting an impossible battle. Don’t look for their graduates to enter into academia??€”its terribly unlikely that any PHC undergrad will have much luck in getting into an elite Ph.D. program. (On the other hand, it’s possible to spot B.A.s from the more mainstream Hillsdale College in respectable professors’ academic histories from time to time.) Whatever inroads have been made, it’s unlikely that the monopoly on knowledge that Harvard, Yale and the other Ivies retain will ever...
...true that the world looks to Harvard professors for their academic insight, not their hot threads. But a chosen few academics have turned the ivory tower into their own personal runway. The following professors are some of those who have escaped the bad suits and paisley prints of academia??€™s hideous closet. FM crowns them sartorial superstars...
Gates says that he has no doubts about the department’s standing in academia??€”and high hopes for the new combined programs in African and African-American studies...
...president, Shirley M. Tilghman, the opportunity to appoint a dean whose view on early decision could be different than Hargadon’s. And Tilghman has demonstrated sensitivity to the inequalities that can be created by seemingly neutral policies—she has discussed reforming one of academia??€™s sacred cows, the tenure system, because of the challenges it poses to women who want to raise families...
University President Lawrence H. Summers stressed Harvard’s obligations to support the nation in its war efforts and called for a rethinking of academia??€™s attitudes toward patriotism in an interview yesterday...