Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jesse E. Matz, assistant professor of English, says students who want to devote their lives to academia will have to overcome formidable hurdles...
Harvard had a pre-veterinary club briefly between 1993 and 1996, and its history reflects the hit-and-miss nature of support groups for fields which draw students from outside the pre-professional tracks of academia, law, medicine, consulting or investment banking...
...There are still a lot of people in upper-crust academia that recognize [deafness] as a disability and not as a sub-culture," added Tiffany R. Beechy '99, CODA's program director...
...divide the student community and the nation at large. In response to these accusations, I ask: Is the study of political science, known here as government, "too political"? Are women's studies and Afro-American studies any more political than race and ethnic studies? Politics has always influenced academia, and as an agent of constructive change, it should continue...
...under-informed about the tenure process. While internal hiring has increased in recent years, it varies widely by department and remains across the board much lower than at other universities. Rather than raise up star faculty from within its ranks, Harvard has fallen prey to the trend in academia toward seeking out what some have called "academostars," cutting-edge scholars who are more or less auctioned off to the highest bidding institutions. In the meantime, Harvard's junior faculty positions are so tenuous that graduate students don't even want to choose these scholars as advisers for fear of their...