Word: academia
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...because the direction that African-American studies has taken in the last 15 years or so has been a direction that is broader than just the definition of African-American as black people in the United States,” Higginbotham says, citing this larger shift in academia as well as, for the first time, a receptive University administration as the reasons for the change in the department’s name and structure...
...experience was incredible,” Dorin said, adding that Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou “was the ideal thesis superviser—she never said the thesis was an end unto itself. It was about the trials and tribulations of academia. She let me be very independent and let me have free rein...
...Having watched him go through the process of producing a significant historical paper, Liaou said Dorin has the potential to go far in the world of academia...
This discussion of the interaction of science and religion stretches beyond academia, says Mark U. Edwards, Jr., associate dean for academic administration at HDS. It enters the public sphere through the debates about intelligent design and stem cell research as well as through bestselling books such as “The God Delusion” by secular scientist Richard Dawkins...
...harsh in its indictment of all college students, acting as if a college student’s racism is more surprising—and should be less commonplace—than that of the average American. It’s just as surprising in the world of academia, and just as prevalent as anywhere else. We’re not of a higher moral stature than the rest of society...