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When Mason Professor of Music Christoph Wolff assumes the deanship in July, he should focus on decreasing the amount of time graduate students take to complete their dissertations and move on to academia, his colleagues...
Outgoing Graduate School Dean Brendan A. Maher says a bleak job market encourages students to remain at Harvard. Employment opportunities are scarce, and the national recession has delayed a predicted increase in jobs in academia, Maher says...
...conservative mistrust of dominant cultural institutions extends from popular culture to academia. William F. Buckley Jr.'s first book was God and Man at Yale. In it Buckley posited the gradual takeover of the academy by mealy-mouthed liberals indifferent, and even hostile, to religion and the cultural importance of religion in Western culture, particularly in shaping conceptions of individual rights...
...College activism is about idealism," says Harry James Wilson '93, who says he plans to enter academia before trying his hand at elective politics. "It's not a question of trying to pad your resume...
Finally, Gates' request is a limited one, and it's a dismal comment on the state of academia that he has to pose it. "Equal access to the arts and the humanities, broadly reconceived, is the most important cultural project upon which we can embark." Gates simply wants equal access to the institutions which perpetuate human culture. there's no call for separatism in his writing. He doesn't give an inch to Jeffriesism, which can only "drown out critical inquiry...