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Perhaps the awakening of individual identity can contribute to academia as well as to the personal development of students. Kim's engagement of Korean ethnicity allows her "to start from my own experiences," and she says that it has made her academic life "more concrete." The treatment of identity, in this way, becomes a bridge to academic understanding...
...Government is about power and policy. [Academia is about] research and teaching and...searching for truth...
Other committee members, however, dispute Brimmer's view. Nancy G. Morgan, who has served on several committees, attributes the lack of immediate progress to the typical slowness of change in academia...
...conversations over stuffed chicken and mixed vegetables cannot create a critical mass of women in academia. The constant feeling of being a minority is not alleviated by the occasional Faculty Club lunch, and students who look to professors as role models see few women blazing a path before them...
...solve this lack of a critical mass has not yet emerged, and opinions differ on the barriers faced by women in academia. But sharing common experiences, Harvard's women professors say, allows them to look forward to the day when such lunches are no longer necessary...