Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. Robert J. Murray has had first-hand experience with national security, from the Marine Corps through a string of positions in the Department of Defense. But only three months after entering the relative calm of academia by taking a job at the Kennedy School of Government, Murray was called back out to the front lines, this time to Beirut...
...prevalent feeling among students in this college that it is the person's capabilities as a researcher, as a writer and academic that dominate the tenure decision. I think it can be agreed that this idea is not without factual basis. Often, it is this aspect of academia that lends itself to Harvard's prestige, to its reputation as an institution of great learning and to increasing its financial resources. Should this be the main criterion for awarding tenure? Is it not possible to say that a person's teaching abilities are of vital importance to those people who crowd...
Andriette said that he is filing charges largely to bring attention to the issue Academia needs to be reminded that it's not as tolerant as it likes to think it is Here is a case where we see prejudices coming...
...think I'm one of the suspects that is usually rounded up," laughs Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn when asked if he's thought about becoming dean of the Faculty But Bailyn. One of academia's most prominent American historians is quick to dismiss the idea...
...UNLIKELY COALITION of academia, business, and labor has formed to defeat the Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum. By supporting the referendum, citizens are vehemently expressing their frustration with current efforts to affect multi-lateral disarmament. They believe that the measure will serve to redirect the aim of local, national, and international movements towards the very structures which support the building of nuclear weapons. With President Bok's help and the newly formed Citizens Against Research Bans (CARB), whose major contributors include the nation's largest defense contractors, opponents of the measure have attempted to scare Cambridge voters with cries that...