Word: academiae
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...defiance toward the new—the dread of impending exams. The excitement for participants, and shock for spectators, comes not just from the sight of 500 screaming, naked students, but from our symbolic bird flipping to all the proud institutions nearby: to the stodginess of academia, to the sanctity of Harvard Yard, to the camera-laden spectators, and to our career ambitions. We may be naked, but the emperor is running naked with...
Kagan, 46, has spent only a little more than 11 years in academia. By contrast, Faust, 59, has served as a professor at Penn and Harvard for more than three decades...
...matter one Yale professor’s view of Harvard as a humorless place, people throughout academia are wondering whether Harvard is the next place for Richard...
...discussion of female leadership in academia inevitably raises the specter of the Summers scandal. Harvard became the center of a nationwide controversy over the place of women in academia in 2005, after then-President Lawrence H. Summers suggested that intrinsic gender differences might be partly responsible for the low representation of women in the sciences...
...people said that’s a corrective action for what the previous president did, I think that would be unfair to that woman,” Hopkins, a long time advocate for women in academia, says...