Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Swidler credits Bellah with developing ideas "which have become part of the woodwork" of academia, such as the concept of civil religion, a term he coined in an influential 1966 paper, "Civil Religion in America...
Nesson said the conference tried to attractrepresentatives of four major groups: establishedcapital, venture capital, non-profit organizationsand academia...
...seminars brought together entertainers and scholars. According to Lesser there were about 30 people in each seminar, about half of whom were involved in the television industry, and the other half in academia. Producers, authors of children's books--including Maurice Sendak--teachers and scriptwriters all participated...
...probably quite rare in academia that students, alumni/ae and staff are having their views solicited for this purpose," he said...
...wonder that so few Harvard seniors pursue careers in academia, since most of them have experienced four years of large lecture classes with sections for which no one does the reading. If it were less difficult to persuade professors to pay attention to undergraduates, then maybe the consulting firms and investment banks that invade the campus each fall would have less appeal and Harvard seniors would not have the reputation of having become more materialistic than intellectual. Until Harvard does more to foster the intellectual creativity of its own undergraduates, students need to take the time to think early...