Word: academia
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Indeed, Slavitt is not happy with the current state of American academia...
...rather than attempting to contribute to what PHCers might consider the seamy ideologies that plague academia, the school’s self-professed goal is to “lead our nation and shape our culture.” The new Strategic Intelligence Program—one of the concentrations in the school’s government department—provides a trade school approach to an increasingly important sector of the government. Classes in “Empirical Research Methods” and “Intelligence Research and Analysis” coalesce with a liberal arts core (Western...
...waiting unfairly for months, if not years, in limbo. Still other students have been discouraged from applying. Reform is clearly needed, and University President Lawrence H. Summers should be commended for recently attempting to rectify America’s wrongheaded strategy. Summers’ leadership, while many others in academia remain silent, is admirable...
...still play to packed houses on the lecture circuit. He has something rare among top-tier scholars, an ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, flair and wit. That's one reason his books--most recently, The Blank Slate--make best-seller lists even as they make waves in academia. The other reason is those waves in academia. Pinker is on the forefront of an intellectual sea change...
...characters such as Pokemon, Sailor Moon and of course, Kitty—such an enduring phenomenon.Co-organizer Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 says that while “cuteness is everywhere in Japan,” it has hardly been recognized as a serious subject in academia. Lipoff says that, in the West, there is a great amount of cynicism and myth surrounding Hello Kitty and Japanese cute culture, as evidenced by the debate surrounding Kitty’s lack of mouth. Some believe it’s symbolic of the patriarchal silencing of Asian women...