Word: academia
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...rhetoric of academia was still being pushed from above, Summers explains, but Mahan discovered that the reality of campus life was that students are regrettably driven much more by preprofessional ambitions...
...Harvard currently has a villa in Italy and a laboratory in Chile (and a forest in New Zealand). More property would be better, as it would provide students with interesting housing and research opportunities across the world. This investment in international property should be matched by one in international academia. Harvard must not continue to pawn off students on other schools’ study abroad programs, even if it offers financial aid for them. Harvard must form its own partnerships with sister international schools. As it stands, the academic rigor of most study abroad programs available to Harvard students pales...
...widespread popularity outside of the Ivory Tower. Chomsky makes some valid criticisms of American policy, but his speech illustrated what is wrong with a certain strand of campus radicalism. In his speech, Chomsky claimed the majority of Americans are to the left of both political parties, the media, and academia. Their preferences are not reflected in public policy decisions because America is a “business run” country; the people’s opinion just doesn’t matter all that much. According to Chomsky, the system was set up to disenfranchise the public...
...When people came in to talk to him, whether it be students, faculty or staff, he didn’t just go through the motions of paying attention to them. Academia is not filled with good listeners, and he was one,” said Maher...
...could work in the world of academia and the world of public life....he had big ideas about what going to make world a better place, and the political savvy to bring that to life,” said Murninghan...