Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week, a top CIA official, Robert M. Gates, tried to salvage his agency's tenuous connections with academia after the Harvard controversy received national attention. But Gates' much-publicized policy speech at the Kennedy School brushed over the sensitive issue of academic freedom, allowing disclosure of funding in some limited cases but holding fast to the CIA's right of review and ultimate control of scholars' work...
Thirty years ago Miller was a Winthrop House tutor and a teaching fellow in History and Literature. He had studied at Oxford University under C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and was prepared for a life in academia. But, Miller says, he found that "things of the mind have an attachment to the real world," and he discovered a desire to help shape policy...
McLaughlin, previously a successful businessman, had no prior experience in academia before he became president in 1981. Although almost universally praised for his ability to increase the college's endowment, the president's handling of the current campus strife has generated harsh criticism from all fronts...
...those sympathetic to abroad conception of human behavior, are slow tomourn the passage of interdisciplinary study. Manysay, in fact, that the move might open a newchapter in the development of social psychology.Some see psychologists with a broad outlook ontheir field being forced into new academicarrangements and into roles beyond academia whichcould increase their understanding of humanbehavior...
Note: Seating for February 13'sInstitute of Politics forum on the CIA and itsrole in academia will be limited to 250. Ticketsare available at the Kennedy School of Government