Word: academia
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...Faculty divided against itself, its Dean, and its President cannot be expected to maintain its position at the forefront of academia. Consequently, we see the more civil tone at Tuesday’s emergency meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as an overwhelmingly positive sign that circumstances are beginning to improve for the entire University. Yet deep divisions remain, and steps must be taken to ensure that faculty discontent does not rear its ugly head in another dramatic explosion...
...study, which aimed to explain the gender gap between men and women in academia in physics and astronomy, was published a month after University President Lawrence H. Summers suggested that innate differences may help explain the lower numbers of women in science...
...pervasive, not unique to Harvard,” which is obviously true. But this hardly excuses Harvard, which of all universities is the best positioned—in terms of wealth, brilliance of faculty and students, and institutional power—to combat the prevailing trends in academia. Harvard is the most famous university in the world, and I hardly think that it’s “cheap journalism” to use its curriculum as an exemplar of flaws in American higher education that need to be corrected...
...can’t have good faith in the University to speak to all of these problems if our own president doesn’t think it’s a big deal how much discrimination affects women in academia,” she said...
Summers’ entire worldview is colored by the notion that economics is the only way to make decisions, which led to his problematic remarks on women in academia. As he shared the stage with former vice president Albert A. Gore ’69 a few months ago discussing the environment, Summers terrifyingly suggested that the University should study an environmental issue because of its “comparative advantage” in related fields. But a university should never justify what it studies on economic terms instead of intellectual principles...