Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accepting funding from the CIA, Harvard is not risking its academic freedom through association with a secret and covert wing of government. The contract has been checked and double-checked to ensure that the University's rules--the strictest in academia--forbidding censorship and requiring the publication of all results are preserved. "The contract has no leaks," said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, a national authority on academic freedom and the problems of government secrecy...
...Harvard relationship represents a landmark in the history of relations between academia and the government. All of higher education will watch its progress, viewing it as an example of how academic freedom and working with a secret agency can be reconciled to the benefit of the university. It's just too bad that many at Harvard won't give the CIA that same chance...
This relationship raises questions not only because ties between secretive government agencies and academia are inherently troubling, but also because this union is between organizations with checkered pasts. Harvard and the Kennedy School should not have forgotten their liberal natures once again by making an institutional link with a body as reprehensible as the CIA. Under the terms of the agreement, the CIA will fund a $1.2 million, three-year Kennedy School study assessing the use to which policymakers put the agency's intelligence information. The funding also will pay for special two-week "executive training sessions," presumably modeled after...
...minority women educators and students, the discussion--first in a series sponsored by the Harvard Foundation--focused on the specific problems minority women in academia face as a result of their cultural and sexual backgrounds...
...case, the Fogg is well worth several lengthy if leisured visits. It is open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. When academia has lost its charms and the conversation of your peers palls, retire and amuse yourself in the the Fogg's quiet and tranquil halls. Then you can return to your house secure in the knowledge that you have done your bit for culture at Harvard...