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Robert D. Putnam resigned unexpectedly in May, 1991--after just two years on the job--to return to academia. Six months later, Albert Carnesale was named his permanent replacement...
...Dick Cavanagh is clearly the right leader atthe right time for The Conference Board," saidJohn R. Hall, chair and CEO of Ashland Oil, Inc.and chair of The Conference Board trustees. "Hisextraordinary accomplishments in business,government and academia, combined with his provenleadership skills, make him the perfect choice tolead The Conference Board into the 21st century...
...years, the College has required such small seminars for only one purpose: the teaching of expository writing. Knowing how to write effectively is certainly essential for success in nearly all professions, especially academia. But knowing how to detect ethical problems and how to reason through moral dilemmas is equally, if not more important to students' success in achieving both their own goals and those of society. (And this is particularly true at a College that prides itself on the graduates it's placed in influential positions in the public and private sectors...
...interesting as, say, that of the typewriter repairman--with whom the poet shares both a link to antiquated technology and a need for fineness of touch. But to get at what's really interesting means digging into a number of unsettling questions. Is the poet's embrace of academia (even more than fiction writers, poets are likely to teach for a living) a bad thing? In an age of computers whose memories dwarf our own, what is the fate of the old-fashioned practice of learning poems by heart? Does that easily brandished term Postmodernism in fact herald anything...
...recent surge of debate about women's scholarship on college campuses has placed Harvard's French program in the middle of a growing conflict over feminism in academia...