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...universities and funding agencies started to offer continuing education programs for women. As a result, administrators say, the Bunting Institute began to reach out specifically to women who had achieved distinction in their careers. Over time, the institute gradually became a center devoted largely to helping women advance in academia or the arts...
SONG members are also rather naive to think that a cultural elevation of the intellectual is the cure-all for economic stagnation. In the Soviet Union, a university professorship is among the most revered occupations, and Soviet schoolchildren often aspire to a life of academia...
Also serving on the 16-member committee are MITPresident Paul E. Gray, former NIH Director DonaldFrederickson, and several other leaders inbusiness, government and academia...
...Actually, that's just what the fundraising effort needs---celebrity spokespeople. Derek Bok is a big name in the academia, but he's no Bart Giamatti. Think of all of the money that a real star could generate. Look at Bill Cosby sucking in millions for Temple University. Maybe we could negotiate a deal with America's second best Dad, Michael Gross, from "Family Ties." I'm sure that he isn't doing much these days...
Takaki blamed the media, absence of an Asian-American political voice and academia for perpetuating images of minorities as aliens...