Word: academicization
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Getting a Ph.D. is the pinnacle of academic achievement, but appears that some aspiring students in Germany may have bribed their way to the top. On Aug. 22, German prosecutors revealed that they are investigating around 100 academics at some of the country's top universities on the suspicion that...
Undergraduate Council representative and Currier House resident George J.J. Hayward ’11, who adopted improved cell phone service in the Quad as a central component of his election campaign last year, collected over 300 messages from Quad residents about poor reception over the last academic year.
3 | Washington Unsparing with the Rod According to a new report by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, more than 200,000 U.S. schoolchildren were subjected to corporal punishment during the 2006-07 academic year, with disabled students receiving a disproportionate share. In Tennessee, one of 20 states where physical...
PAF: 1. Peer Advising Fellow. 2. A socially conscious upperclassman who donates his or her time to hosting weekly study breaks and offering tame advice to first-years. 3. Probably a better source of academic advice than your official advisor (see Advising).
TF: 1. Teaching fellow. 2. Person in control of your academic fate.