Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team settle in for the three days of interviews. In addition to the seven actual interviewers, all of whom are field or line managers rather than personnel employees, McCreery brings additional team members, ranging from recent B-School graduates who can give students a description of the academia-employment transition, to Lilly Whalley, a Black woman who offers women and minorities her personal perspectives on integrating the corporate world...
ALTHOUGH HE HAD the intellect of a philosopher, Lippmann shunned a strictly contemplative career in academia. Four years after graduation and work in Boston politics and journalism, a group of New York writers asked Lippmann to join them as founding editor of the New Republic, launched as the voice of anticorporate progressivism. His editorials in the New Republic's early days drew the attention of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The war president chose Lippmann to serve in a clan-destine group helping draft political boundaries for post-World War Europe; from its inquiry emerged the famous Fourteen Points...
...Enough people fall short of square dealing, however, to have left Americans a keen hunger for someone to trust. While political lying may have entered an "era of mass production," as Critic Robert Adams says in Bad Mouth, the problem of deception goes far beyond politics. Many people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns up so often in the commercial world that the best graduate schools of business tram students to cope...
...OFFICIAL RULES governing the selection of tenured professors are straight-toward: "These lifetime professorial appointments are reserved for scholars of the first order of eminence." That Harvard wants the very best is a valid, even noble, aim--in theory. But by conducting its search for the paragons of academia at the expense of its junior faculty, Harvard denies itself the probable top scholars of the future. And in deciding not to tenure many of them, Harvard often treats its junior faculty members destructively and unfairly...
...very bad decision in terms of academia," Brian P. Murphy, associate director for operations at Harvard University Press, said, adding that many publishers are destroying their books or selling them to discount outlets. University Press is not affected by the ruling because of its non-profit status...