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...promising beginning. The meeting—in which Summers reportedly raised questions about West’s non-academic activities and informed West that he would monitor his academic output—became a public measure of Summers’s general support for affirmative action and diversity in academia. The brouhaha attracted national media attention. Summer came under attack for his abrasive style and seeming inability or unwillingness to smooth ruffled feathers. At the end of his first year, Summers’s presidency has already shown itself to be a striking contrast to Rudenstine?...
...Moynihan the politician and policy-wonk has returned to academia. He currently teaches at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs...
...Patriotism,” he said in an Oct. 26 speech at the Kennedy School of Government, was a word that was “used too infrequently” in academia. He added that he hoped Sept. 11 would create greater respect for military service...
...Academia is an itinerant profession,” says David L. Carrasco, Rudenstine professor of Latin American Studies, who came to Harvard from Princeton last fall...
...already made a name for herself studying academic tenure and the status of women in higher education for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). And as a Romance Languages professor she had experienced firsthand discrimination against women in academia...