Word: academia
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...college will be infinitely better served by a couple more opportunities for intellectual exploration (perhaps leading to a more satisfying choice of concentration) rather than being forced to take an extra couple of esoteric classes in their chosen fields. And for those who do decide to remain in academia, graduate school should give them plenty of time to explore the complexities of their particular disciplines...
...unique place in a child’s learning environment? We’ve slowly begun to accept, if not embrace, popular culture’s place in the high school and college classroom as material that enhances critical dialogue, stirs debate on current issues and lets us contextualize academia in new ways. But what, if anything, can we make of books like basketball star Shaquille O’Neal’s rewrite of an old fable, which was published by Scholastic under the name Shaq and the Beanstalk...
Gross also moderated two panels about the review—one about the future of the Core and another in which deans from Yale, Brown, and Columbia weighed in on Harvard’s place in academia...
...vast swathes of “red” country or to most of liberal America, where the gristle of labor unions or socially conservative minorities dominates. Unless “the real world” for a typical Harvard student will mean an eternally sheltered life in academia, the perennially-fuzzy international community or Long Island, I detect a deception...
...those students who imagine a future in academia and other highly motivated students, the yawning gulf between the last day of classes in December and the end of exams can be filled with sparkling original research,” Connor says. “Pushing exams back, compressing reading period and exams, etc. will thwart that kind of work, and no J-term can make up for it. I fear that we may trade seriousness—about academics, the arts and athletics—for a stress-free holiday and some smorgasbord course offerings in January...