Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will go on to careers in business, academia, journalism, public service and the arts. You will care about your families and the health of relatives. You will forget the gripes you had as students. One day someone from Harvard will call asking for a donation and you will oblige blindly...
Granted, not all alumni will have this power. But many that pursue careers in academia will end up teaching at Harvard. Other alumni will become leading donors. A handful might even become Harvard administrators (heaven forbid...
...Cornell and Harvard, Keyes opted for Cornell because of its accelerated, six-year combined bachelor's and doctorate degree program. Hoping to obtain a Ph.D. before applying to law school and then working in government service, Keyes embarked on his short-cut plan in 1969 but ended up relishing academia so much that he transferred to Harvard, where he stayed until 1979 to complete his doctorate...
...firmly esconsced in Oxford academia as his father and grandfather had been before him, Knowles opted for a change of scenery and accepted tenure at Harvard...
...addition, Graduate School of Education Professor Carol Gilligan, a Bunting Fellow in 1982-83, and other alumnae in academia will discuss the issue of women in universities...