Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting committee recommendations to begin solving the problems in the Economics Department. But it would be a mistake to consider these problems as unique to any one academic department. The Economics Department is only the most current and most public example of a common malaise afflicting all of Harvard academia to a lesser or greater degree. Regardless of degree, its symptoms are the same: an ingrown and complacent faculty too much concerned with research to the neglect of teaching, and a definition and acceptance of students as second-class citizens...
...step toward increasing what people expect from a national economic policy. A broader public understanding of the economy and who it serves is necessary. The nationwide teach-ins announced last week by eleven radical economists will be another good step, though they will probably not reach many people outside academia...
...easy generalization is that D-SOC is more closely-allied with academia, while NAM is alienated, and this notion is borne out somewhat by the large proportion of NAM members who take semesters or years off. NAM member Brian K. Allen '75-3 says, "We have a clearer idea than others what lies outside Harvard...
Established in 1966 as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the Institute is designed to promote greater understanding between academia and the political world...
Princeton economist Richard A. Lester published a book this summer that voices the concerns of the anti-affirmative action camp. In it Lester argues that federally-imposed affirmative action programs constitute a serious government attack on the independence and integrity of academia. He also claims that the introduction of racial, ethnic and sexual considerations into faculty searches has led to a reduction in the overall quality of teaching staffs at universities all across the country...