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...University should be more willing to accommodate couples in academia, she says. “If the husband is an academic in a different field,” Nicoara recommends, “then the University should try to provide position in that field or at least grant visitor status until they can find something in the area...
...students see their views constantly vindicated by the highest figures of intellectual authority and conservatives see theirs derided, it becomes all too easy for liberal students to gain an easy and unchallenged overconfidence in their beliefs and for conservatives to adopt a dismissive attitude toward their liberal peers and academia as a whole...
Bias is a problem at Harvard and throughout academia, but not one without remedy. Overt bias must be kept to a minimum, but if universities are to allow a healthy amount of political bias in their classes, they must embrace and seek intellectual and political diversity much more rigorously than it has in the past. For if diversity is truly held to be a valuable goal in the makeup of a faculty, schools must consider the hiring of more conservative professors an important part of that commitment. Only in this context can bias cease to be the problem and become...
...also wish that FAS would nab the enterprising youngsters who are, with flair and vigor, forging completely new fields. The expansion of the Faculty gives Harvard the chance to have it both ways, attracting both the superstars and the rising stars into its substantial neck of the woods of academia...
Caton admits that he has some difficult barriers to overcome. He says that while Latin American studies have been a strong and constant force in academia over the last 40 years, Middle Eastern studies surge in intellectual interest for brief moments, for example, following the Arab oil embargo of 1973, but then go forgotten...