Word: academia
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...said. Jeffrey Y. Kurashige, a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history who spent the day gathering signatures, said that the tenure denial seems to indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson’s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek C. Bok, whose office holds the final say on University tenure decisions, declined to comment yesterday on Adolphson’s case. Bok has said...
...international affairs, and co-author John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago set off a storm of controversy last March when they published a paper arguing that the pro-Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has distorted foreign policy through its influence on academia, the media, and think tanks. Their essay also argued that the lobby was a “critical element” in the decision to invade Iraq...
...amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency was one in which “everybody’s got the same objective and they’re all just moving forward together.” Pausing for chuckles, the once-embattled university leader added, “I might give a slightly different...
Death and taxes, as the saying goes, are life's certainties. But, so far, their conjunction has only produced mystery as the IRS investigates the department of pathology at Tulane University's medical school. It is a mystery involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, the byzantine politics of academia, the plight of indigent patients and possibly the existence of an undead corpse...
...technological edge of library science. But in light of his upcoming retirement from the post, it is imperative that his successor continue the projects he has left unfinished and forge ahead with new initiatives that will keep Harvard’s library system at the forefront of academia well into the future. Increasing the ease of accessing Harvard’s formidable collections has always been at the forefront of Verba’s agenda, and it must remain a central goal. In recent years, the process of searching Harvard’s resources has improved tremendously, and HOLLIS?...