Word: academia
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...recent years, however, research and teaching throughout academia, have come into conflict with each other, even to the point of paralyzing the academic community. The conflict is especially reflected in the differing definitions "research" has acquired over the past two decades. It seems as though professors, university administrators and lawmakers are referring to different activities when they speak of research...
...even if Hart does have legitimate gripes against the Dartmouth administration, he doesn't have a case against academia as a whole, try as he might to concoct one. He consoles himself about the situation at Dartmouth by noting that "Harvard, Yale and Princeton are all in worse shape." But "Abortion Now!" buttons (if they actually exist) are hardly flowering in the Yard, and undoubtedly tenured Harvard professors like Richard Pipes or Paul Bator, both prominent veterans of the Reagan administration, would be happy to have the likes of Ben Hart over to dinner...
Another Harvard administrator who sprinted through the ranks in Bokian fashion is Rosovsky's successor as dean, A. Michael Spence. But Spence, a Princeton graduate, is not tied either to Harvard or to academia, according to his friend and colleague Richard J. Zeckhauser, professor of Political Economy...
...takes a further administrative post, it's only 50-50 to be in academia, and only 50-50 to be at Harvard." Zeckhauser, who teaches a course on decision making under uncertainty, speculated in February. "I think he'll be president of Princeton. That's my best guess...
...preliminary report was not made public, but Phyllis R. Keller, associate dean for academic planning, indicated last month that Harvard's hiring of Blacks was in proportion with the number of Blacks in academia, while women are being "under-utilized" in almost a dozen departments...