Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another Harvard administrator who sprinted through the ranks in Bokian fashion is Rosovsky's successor as dean, A. Michael Spence. But Spence, a Princeton graduate, is not tied either to Harvard or to academia, according to his friend and colleague Richard J. Zeckhauser, professor of Political Economy...
...takes a further administrative post, it's only 50-50 to be in academia, and only 50-50 to be at Harvard." Zeckhauser, who teaches a course on decision making under uncertainty, speculated in February. "I think he'll be president of Princeton. That's my best guess...
...preliminary report was not made public, but Phyllis R. Keller, associate dean for academic planning, indicated last month that Harvard's hiring of Blacks was in proportion with the number of Blacks in academia, while women are being "under-utilized" in almost a dozen departments...
...Lords of Academia hold that disciples are supposed to jump at Harvard tenure offer. Sander Gilliam, a German literature specialist at Cornell, has apparently not learned this...
Moreover, Wilson's condemnations of academia are often overly-harsh, often to the point of sounding adolescent. Though Wilson stops short of raging an outright attack on authority and its preceptors, his picture of religion and scholasticism is notably unsympathetic. Potential "heroes" are either washed up and disillusioned by their own insight, or undercut their own good intentions with overbearing concern...