Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover in the course of a year. Now we can go for weeks on end without having an individual, rather than a trend or event, as a subject. Profile will give us an opportunity to return to the kind of close and detailed examination of important people in politics, academia, the arts and other fields for which TIME is famous...
...successful, University officials hope the informal meeting will produce a national forum at Harvard in the spring on the issue of minorities in academia. Observers said an unprecedented gathering of this kind could prompt other schools to follow Harvard's lead in solving the problem...
However, few answers exist to address what hasbecome a "crisis of substantial dimensions,"Harvard officials said. They said that thediscussions and the tentative conference aredesigned to find cures for the lack of minoritiesin academia...
Students recognize that the quality of academic scholarship must be of paramount importance in tenure decisions. But it looks increasingly as if the elaborate calculus by which teaching is taken into account needs some adjustment. And as last week's report said, Harvard's influence in academia gives it a particular obligation to reaffirm the worth of good teaching. If schools like Harvard neglect teaching, the report said, "other institutions are likely to undervalue it as well...
...page study on American academia, based on interviews with more than 200 faculty members at 16 colleges and universities, says too many institutions base tenure decisions on professors' research and scholarly writings rather than the quality of their teaching...