Word: academia
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...openly. If their claims about a pro-Israel bias are strong enough, they will weather the political storm, even in the face of the prejudices Matory cites. Argumentation is the best way to win allies in academia—not empty referenda. Legitimate views should never be silenced in academia, and the text of Matory’s resolution correctly argues that people of many different political and ideological persuasions should feel comfortable expressing their opinions without fear of retribution. The real substance of this resolution, however, lies in not-so-hidden agenda. The Faculty was wise to steer clear...
...name is Yiddish and she can down a corned beef sandwich the size of her head. And she wasn’t planning to convert anytime soon. The summer ended and I returned to “G-d-less Harvard.” With class selection and academia, my first week back was quite secular, aside from forays to Hillel for the best food on campus. But my interest in the Bible was rekindled when I decided to take a course on the literature of the medieval world. Reading about Paul’s journey to the Third Heaven...
...mental processes, he explained. “Considering the audience is at the core of writing,” said Gregory A. Harris, preceptor in expository writing and last year’s editor of “Exposé.” After immersing themselves in research and academia, writers often assume that readers understand the jargon and conventions of specialists, Pinker said. “With apologies to Yeats, I’d argue that we aren’t trying to create monuments to our own magnificence when we write—we’re trying...
...these steps that weren’t something I’d chosen out of my interests.” He changed his thesis topic to discuss the careers Harvard students choose after they graduate, and remembers his shock at his discovery of the low numbers of students entering academia, politics, or anything at all but finance and consulting. “Start-ups seem to be the most risk that Harvard students are willing to take,” he said. Many students enter graduate school with the intention of using the skills acquired there to more deeply inform...
...major research universities across the country. The study—based on a survey of the National Science Foundation’s top-100 universities in each of the 15 academic disciplines—also predicted that the gap between minority representation in the general population and in academia will have a direct effect on the thinking and scientific practices of future generations. “We’ve been looking at the diversity in faculties for several years now, originally we were doing this but focusing on women because there seemed to be more interest in that...