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...Cornell and Harvard, Keyes opted for Cornell because of its accelerated, six-year combined bachelor's and doctorate degree program. Hoping to obtain a Ph.D. before applying to law school and then working in government service, Keyes embarked on his short-cut plan in 1969 but ended up relishing academia so much that he transferred to Harvard, where he stayed until 1979 to complete his doctorate...
...firmly esconsced in Oxford academia as his father and grandfather had been before him, Knowles opted for a change of scenery and accepted tenure at Harvard...
Reflecting the diversity of fields studied at the Institute, the reunion weekend will include panels on science, women in academia, social justice and the arts...
...addition, Graduate School of Education Professor Carol Gilligan, a Bunting Fellow in 1982-83, and other alumnae in academia will discuss the issue of women in universities...
...order of more than seven-to-one--is bad for the University. It is bad for men who do not experience lectures by professors of both sexes; it is bad for women who do not have male and female role models to teach them about women's experience in academia; it is bad for everyone at the University whose view of the world is thus skewed. The question that must be answered is what should be done about this glaring problem...