Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosovsky's contention that the Administration's more laissezfaire approach to affirmative action represents an opportunity for Harvard, then, rests on two premises. The first is that federal pressure to increase the number of qualified minorities and women in academia had actually backfired. That contention may be correct, certainly federal codes mandating endless statistical reports and detailed procedures haven't done anything to streamline the Harvard bureaucracy. But at root it is a minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring...
...into industry. Thomas E. Cheatham, McKay Professor of Computer Science, said that there is wide-spread concern at major universities that the most promising computer scholars are avoiding graduate school. There is further worry that those who do obtain advanced degrees are almost all going into industry rather than academia, he added...
Harvard colleague Parker puts it another way: "Legal academia is as pompous a sector of academia as any, full of hot air and gas. Ely has none of that...It'd be very refreshing to be at a school with him as dean," He adds. "He has certainly got the energy to build a law school like Stanford into one of the two or three best...
...level institutions, where faculty has power over tenure and academic standards, unions have held almost no appeal. There is also, both inside and outside academia, a good deal of ambiguity about whether professors should organize or go on strike. Says Swan: "There's nothing lower than a faculty member who refuses to teach...
Stevenson applied for tenure again in 1980, expressing a desire to return to the ranks of academia, Donaldson said...