Word: academia
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When Peter Berkowitz graduated from Yale with a Ph.D. in political science, he knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: plunge into an academic lifestyle. He instead opted to go to law school, but in his second year at Yale Law, academia came calling in the form of an irresistible suitor: Harvard...
...Faust told The Crimson that she hopes this will encourage collaboration and foster the creation of a “support system” for social scientists. This is not the first time in recent years that the University has responded to the increased importance of interdisciplinary study in academia by reevaluating its structure of decentralized departments and schools. Indeed, the planned committee is modeled in mandate and design on the highly successful University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering (UPCSE). Since UPCSE issued its final report last December, progress has been swift. In January, the Corporation created a permanent...
...days are numbered. The model it was built on depended on the necessity of ink and paper for its viability. But today, the Internet has made the exchange and storage of information and ideas so cheap, that taxing the free marketplace of ideas and knowledge that academia is founded upon no longer makes economic sense. Enter the open access movement, which is slowly marching its way across academia. The open access movement seeks to displace the expensive, subscription-only elite journals that have long held a stranglehold on academic papers by publishing scholarly works online for free or at very...
...American academia would soon be purged of its international impurities, as every university caught on and followed Harvard’s lead. Remember, if it weren’t for similarly bold, principled leadership on Harvard’s part, American colleges would still have early admission programs...
...Sept. 20) admits that Lawrence H. Summers “was not a perfect president” of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...