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...Shahar said that reframing the conflict would eliminate what he called the anti-Israel bias in academia and the media...
...many of the companies that already spend big bucks to recruit and train talented employees are bracing for even stiffer competition as baby boomers start to retire amid a shortage of skilled labor. Teaching execs to be on the lookout for microinequities--a term that has bounced around academia since a professor at M.I.T. coined it in 1973--is a cheap way to hold on to hard-won recruits. After all, says Andrea Bernstein, diversity chair at the New York City-- based white-shoe law firm Weil Gotshal, "you never know, when somebody leaves, if she would have been...
...fifth annual Center for Public Leadership’s (CPL) Leadership Conference attracted female leaders and scholars from across the country to discuss issues facing women in positions in politics, academia, and business this week-end. Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) hosted “Leadership 2006” from March 8 to 11, which included a keynote speech by University President Lawrence H. Summers, who spoke on the importance of women’s leadership. However, at the well-attended “Women in Science” panel on Friday, chaired...
...hard part is addressing some of the many kinds of challenges that arise.” In introducing the outgoing president, former Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye said that he hoped Summers would join the Kennedy School faculty upon his return to academia in 2007. The Harvard Corporation has offered Summers a prestigious University professorship if he returns to campus after a yearlong sabbatical. But Summers, who was formerly the Ropes professor of political economy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has not specified where he would maintain an office as a University professor...
...study of art has its roots in the early 1930s, when the building at 32 Quincy Street first pioneered the “Fogg method”: a revolutionary approach to art history. This method, which has since been adopted by other institutions in the same realm of academia, “uses the scientific method to study art, giving you a one-on-one encounter with what you’re studying,” says Paolo J. A. Yap ’07.This richness of history—and a degree of apprehension about its potential disintegration?...