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Stephenson says the celebration he has planned will differ markedly from the 300th he experienced as an undergraduate. In 1936, the University celebrated its birthday with a summer-long series of erudite conferences on the future of academia that culminated in a three-day public celebration...
Things are hardly better when we turn our attention to the current condition of academia. This year alone we have seen Harvard instructors convicted for child pornography, and others criticized for failing to disclose sources of funding...
...hope, Gates indicated, was that the new liberal policies would bridge a widening rift between the agency and academia. But key Harvard officials, including President Derek C. Bok and Vice President for Government Affairs John Shattuck, said the changes did not go far enough toward eradicating secrecy and censorship when scholars conduct research...
...concentrators and faculty claim that those willing to take a closer look at their department will find, instead, a legitimate outpost of creativity unique within the ivy-covered walls of academia...
Both Winthrop members emphasize the intellectual approach they take to business consulting as well as their teaching efforts in executive education and training. Responding to criticisms from "a few" historians that their work is not as intellectually important as pure academia, Kantrow says the career choice is not that black and white...