Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman seminar booklet you received over the summer can be a shocker. You may have imagined narrow fields of expertise at Harvard, but the obscure snippets of academia which make up freshman seminar courses are probably your first encounter with just how erudite and moldy some professors...
Graduate liberal arts education is undergoing a crisis. Suffering from the same financial depression as the non-scholarly world, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has had to re-evaluate its future in terms of pressing economic constraints. Academia, the traditional employment stronghold of graduate students, no longer offers the job opportunities guaranteed by professional schools, and the population decline has forced many schools to close, taking with them potential jobs for graduate students...
YOUNG WESTON recovers. Having lost his lover to an ambitious senior associate and his only friend to academia, he finally gets his feet on the ground by engrossing himself in his work. Professor Osborn improves as well. Presumably more familiar with his subject here, he writes more smoothly about Weston's ascent. Characters become at least humanoid, if never quite lifelike. Camilla Newman, whose most interesting feature is her name, is for most of the book just another pretty face fronting an ambitious, competitive young lawyer. As Weston begins to make it by himself, Camilla develops more personal qualities...
Shils' remarks may be, as Government spokesmen charge, both intemperate and premature. But "Caesar's" reach is an object of concern throughout academia. "Governmental intrusion is a considerable and growing problem," says Stanford President Richard Lyman, 55, adding, "but curriculum and academic quality have not been seriously threatened." Affirmative Action Critic Nathan Glazer, a sociologist at Harvard, says a real danger to academic freedom is that faculty members "don't want to go to all the trouble" of proving they have been unable to find qualified blacks or women, so they tolerate inferior appointments...
...Princeton's ($66 million), 4.1% of Oberlin's ($1 million), and 17% ($81 million) of the University of Michigan's. U.S. higher education cannot survive without Government money, but whoever pays the piper often gets to call the tune. Despite the best of intentions, Government clout in academia has grown, along with the red tape necessary to comply with the Government's rules...