Word: academia
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...said that Gray, a historian of humanism and political thought in the Renaissance and the Reformation, is a female pioneer in academia...
...suggest they get a pair of glasses. You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia and as forepeople in factories...
...very structure of the curricular review process invites this reluctance to engage on serious levels with the intellectual ideas and concepts that face academia. A closed, unwelcoming, thoroughly unexciting process is not very likely to produce an exciting, revolutionary idea. Note that nothing has been accomplished beyond a short “interim report” memo from Gross and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, which merely outlined in superficial terms some of the questions that face the curricular review—including the obvious and uninspired (“communities of learning...
This ability to engage people outside academia makes Pinker stand out among his peers. “He is, above all else and above most other people, an excellent craftsman at communicating many ideas simply,” Sahin says. “Simple in this case means reducible to concepts that are digested by an interested and intellectual but not necessarily expert listener or reader...
Vendler also said that the study of the arts is a relatively new phenomenon in American academia...