Word: academia
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President Conant repeatedly neglected to assist distinguished Jewish scholars fleeing Nazi Germany to seek refuge in American academia. Yet the current administration persists in defending Conant’s policies, and rebuffing any suggestion of the University’s culpability...
...Staff, however, would not be responsible if it did not offer a solution to Yale’s woes. A backwards, tribal excess, Yale cannot be allowed to muddy the pristine waters of American academia any longer. That is why the Yale Corporation should make the prudent business move in our increasingly globalized world and outsource sucking. Set up a Yale in Malaysia, pay your professors in grams of lint and watch the profit margins soar. Yale might even be able to compete with Harvard’s endowment, but only if it could teach its “students?...
Personal savings accounts emerged as a Social Security component in academia as far back as the 1950s, but the idea remained dormant until the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan ignited a Republican revolution and the recently formed libertarian think tank the Cato Institute latched onto personal accounts as a free-market fix. Retirement savings, in the free marketeers' view, should be seen as dynamic investments rather than welfare-state safety nets. Indeed, the Cato economists and others concluded that Social Security just wasn't a good investment, based on what taxpayers put in and what they ultimately get out. The President...
...just the academy, but no less Harvard, his challenge may be greater: as Princeton Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers well know, the clash of the low and high is particularly jarring when the worlds of mass-media and academia collide...
...would be more sympathetic if the professor’s findings weren’t oversimplified. Indeed, with an upcoming book to be published on the relations between American academia and the rise of Nazism, we suspect Norwood has ulterior motives in singling out Harvard for criticism. Rather than presenting a constructive paper for the sake of scholarship, it seems he is attempting to gain some name recognition by attacking the American university with the most name recognition...