Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University acknowledged the new reality, formally combining the by-then-gutted Social Relations Department with the small, experimental Psychology Department. "Psychology and Social Relations" boasted the vestiges of an interdisciplinary outlook, according to some of those around during its early days, but the pressures of academia wore that commitment down. The demise of psychology's social focus "was not malicious, it was not a conspiracy," stresses George W. Goethals '43, a clinical and social psychologist who has spent most of the last four decades at Harvard. According to Goethals, departments simply take their form from the people who make them...
...competition within academia to produce fresh research--and to win comfortable life time posts--has moved the discipline toward hard science. With academic jobs harder to find during the last several decades, observers say young scholars have sought to produce tenure-copping research by scrutinizing individuals with the aid of computers and the tools of the natural sciences...
WHEN THIS Dr. Jeckyll-Mr. Hyde metamorphosis hits Harvardians, the rest of the world may as well not exist. Academia and all of its pressing concerns are forgotten. Cramming for the Ec 10 final or getting a start on second semester assignments is exchanged for the zealous pursuit of weather-induced pleasure. The Yard is transformed from the major thoroughfare to and from lecture halls into a playground for the happy residents of Camp Harvard. When an exotic storm or heat wave hits, camp is in session. Enjoyment of weather-related activities becomes the sole raison d'etre, and passions...
...support for research is a sensitive issue in academia, where a high premium is placed on unbiased inquiry. Secret funding and funding that restricts scholarly freedom are generally frowned upon...
...American Association of University Professors. In an impassioned address during a daylong symposium on academic freedom, Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York blasted a new right-wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...