Word: academia
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...past two years, Harvard’s once-in-a-generation curricular review held the promise of a complete and visionary overhaul of undergraduate education at the University. 59 years ago, the same process introduced the very notion of a core curriculum to American academia. And the last time University dons gathered to rethink Harvard’s pedagogical orientation—in the 1970s—the College adopted its commitment to teaching “approaches to knowledge” in the Core and beyond. But the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report, which contains initial...
...BACK TO ACADEMIA...
...things that I have learned is that one of the most important choices you make is when to stop,” he says of leaving academia. “You should always try to have that be a choice you make and not one that somebody else makes...
Ferguson says that English academia was not receptive to journalistic ventures and he felt compelled to incarnate his journalistic self under the pseudonyms of Alec Campbell and then Campbell Ferguson...
...Ferguson—whose journalism now is presumably limited to his numerous op-ed submissions—insists that writing about the past for academia and for the public are equally valid pursuits for a history professor...