Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight-member advisory council composed of figures in government, business and academia from the U.S. and Japan will supervise the program. Robert Ingersoll, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, heads the American contingent, which includes another former ambassador, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor of Government. Nobuhiku Ushiba, former Japanese ambassador to the U.S., chairs the Japanese contingent...
Nobody, in or out of academia, denies that there has been race and sex discrimination in the granting of tenure. What troubles many academics is that the corrective methods being used by the Government seem increasingly dangerous. Most would agree with Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny, a staunch critic of past discrimination. Says Kemeny: "Academic institutions now live under a constant threat that any employee not hired or promoted (even for the best of reasons) can file a complaint that will bring a huge bureaucracy down on them. Even when the institution wins the case- and good institutions win most...
Klein did not grow up wealthy--after financial aid, she paid $58 a year tuition at CCNY. "When I decided to go into academia, I was 21 years old. I did not want to be poor. I had to find what I could do that would make a decent salary and also would be non-exploitative, that would also maybe allow me time to do community work...
Klein won't positively commit more than the "first part" of her life to academia. Should she quit,"I've had people say to me that they think I should run for public office. I don't think I could ever do that--it's unclear to me whether individuals in public positions really can do anything," she says...
...centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...