Word: academicization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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“Even though she’s my academic advisor she would talk to me like my old-time friend, and she really cares about how I am doing and my emotional state,” says Nam Hee Kim ’12, one of her advisees...
Fifteen-year-old Mahzarin R. Banaji says she dreamed of living the adventurous life of a secretary upon graduating from high school because she believed that further academic pursuit was useless and was thirsting for an independent life away from her home in Secunderabad, India.
After a few late-night talks with her mother, who never attended college herself, Banaji suspended her plans to enter the typing pool and agreed to give college a try for one semester, after which the two agreed that Banaji would be free to choose her own path. That one...
“We will be postponing some new initiatives, taking a hiatus with some ongoing programs that are not essential to our core academic degree programs, and trying substantially to reduce visiting-professor and some adjunct appointments,” Graham said.
The endorsement came from professor Charles Fried, the Law School’s best known conservative and an academic who served as solicitor general from 1985 to 1989 and as a judge from 1995 to 1999.