Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's tenure process conforms to certain standards, but also has quirks that have earned it criticism. Almost uniformly across academia, professors are supposed to advance from assistant professor to associate professor, then, if granted tenure, full professors. "Senior professor" generally means a person is at the level of a full professor, even though an individual may not have a tenured seat, according to Marquand Professor of English Lawrence Buell, who chairs the department of English and American Literature and Language...
Experts on academia say people look to Harvardfor an academic--and to a certain extentcultural--example and to the leader of theinstitution as a symbol of what Harvard standsfor...
...events of April 1969 had an effect on the careers of the students who watched them happen, it seems to have sent many of them into academia. From these positions, many say they seek to pre-empt the communication breakdown that made students think a takeover was necessary...
...lowered my estimate of the moral courage ofmost people in academia," Levenson said. "It leftme with a sense of fragility in academic life intimes of political discord...
...Morgan says he feels that especially at Harvard, changes in students' career goals have affected activism on campus. While students have always aspired to positions of power, he thinks fewer students now are interested in academia and politics--aspirations that have often coincided with student activism...