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House Master Sandra Naddaff said she is happyto have a dean who has experience in academia...
Currently, the school is running a University-wide capital campaign with a goal of $2.1 billion, a sum unprecedented in academia. To reach that goal, in the words of President Neil L. Rudenstine, "will require the University to raise $1 million...
...Jeffries is a big name, everyone in America knows him," says Jim B. Loeffler '96, co-chair of Hillel's interethnic committee. "Tony Martin is not as well-known, in some ways a much more marginal figure in academia...
...parents and a thousand other imponderables influence the decision to return. The recent wave of corporate downsizing and research cutbacks in the U.S. has also tipped the scales. A generous retirement package helped persuade Lee to leave his comfortable sinecure in Berkeley and take on the challenge of leading Academia Sinica. "Taiwan needs me," says Lee, "while to the University of California, it doesn't make that much difference whether I'm there...
...merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely but firmly objects to being addressed as Teacher Chang. "I tell students that there is no authority in science," she says. "Everything can be overthrown the very next...