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Richard Bradley, a Harvard watcher who runs his own blog on academia and politics, said that “Open University” faces several challenges, namely the fact that contributors are unpaid and that the format is not conducive to individuality...
Though already well-known in Catholic theological circles, the 50-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger was prepared to live out a life of relative obscurity in the quiet confines of German academia. Then one day in 1977, the professor-priest received a fateful visit from a Church official in his study at the University of Regensburg. "We chatted about some insignificant matters," Ratzinger recalled in his memoirs "Milestones, 1927-1977" "and then finally he pressed a letter into my hand, telling me to read it and think it over at home...
Richard Bradley, a Harvard watcher who runs his own blog on academia and politics, said that “Open University” faces several challenges, namely the fact that contributors are unpaid and that the format is not conducive to individuality...
...just a few weeks, you and more than 1,600 of your newest friends will enter the heart of American academia...
...professor in the Department of Social Relations, and he remained on the faculty of the University for the rest of his academic career. He helped found the Stats department in 1957, and in doing so, helped distinguish statistics as a distinct field of study across academia. As its first chair, he led the department for over a decade.“When he was a student, major universities did not have statistics departments, only mathematics departments,” said his daughter, Gale Mosteller. “Now major universities typically have both.”In addition to establishing...