Word: academia
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...related areas. Heineman will leave G.E. at the end of the calendar year and assume his new position at Harvard on Feb. 1. David B. Wilkins, director of the Program on the Legal Profession, said that one of the goals of the program is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional world by bringing back experienced practitioners, like Heineman, to relate their experiences. “One of Harvard’s unfortunate problems is that we do not do a very good job of addressing issues that touch on many domains,” Wilkins said...
West’s 2004 book “Democracy Matters”, widely dismissed by critics as lacking in substance, is a pointed defense of his way of academia. With an entire chapter devoted to explaining “The Necessary Engagement with Youth Culture,” West characterizes his method as a struggle against “technocratic management culture”—a conceptual enemy he equates with “crude” traditionalists like Summers...
...world of fashion into Harvard’s ivy-covered walls. “Fashion is art,” says Smith. “Fashion is a part of our culture. It’s something that can be very academic.” That said, academia never looked this good. And if Vestis has to keep fighting for legitimacy on the Harvard campus, chances are some of the doubters are just jealous...
...those who were unfortunate enough to be rejected and forced to go to Yale but also to those unfortunate in a legitimate sense: those unable due to any number of financial or political constraints to take the plunge and devote four solid years of their lives to academia. MIT’s OpenCourseWare project, which takes select MIT classes and makes all of the imporstant materials available for free online, tries to capitalize (in a social, rather than financial, sense) on this idea.We likely won’t get to pick which parts of the Harvard experience are fundamentally delocalized...
...relief. Students, faculty, and staff should be encouraged to lead fundraising drives and donate independently. Harvard medical affiliates and other relevant staff should be dispatched to disaster areas (as they were in the wake of the tsunami and Katrina). And Harvard should lend its resources to displaced members of academia (like Loyola and Tulane students) as well. With these contributions, Harvard is already making a statement, loud and clear, that it is part of the national and the international community. Any extra money on the side will hurt Harvard more than it will help those in need.It is impossible...