Word: academia
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...television appearances, Ferguson has addressed issues ranging from British to American empires and European international institutions to the U.S. international debt. His controversial arguments in favor of empire, and comparisons between modern American hegemony and the British empire of a century ago, have garnered both publicity and criticism from academia and a popular audience...
Ferguson may reject the idea that he is politically controversial, but he embraces his status as an academic in the public eye. He says that his devotion to writing op-eds and reflecting on the present grows out of his own history, which has taken him from journalism to academia, and from Glasgow to Greenwich Village...
Dialogue between the government and academia has been steady as the university has struggled with these issues...
...Bloom suggests that Harvard should have been willing to err on the side of overstatement. He explains he thinks academia in general—as well as Harvard as an institution—has not been vocal enough in its consideration of questions that have risen in the wake of the government’s new demands on research...
...credits will roll on film critic Elvis Mitchell’s first foray into academia today as students hand in their final papers for Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 173x, “History of American Film Criticism...