Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No one stands still; the only alternatives are promotion or a "terminating appointment," which is an academic way of saying, "You're not fired, but you can't come back after next year."
This system grew out of the Walsh-Sweezy controversy in 1937. In that year two young Economics instructors--J. Raymond Walsh and Alan Sweezy--were dismissed. Their supporters immediately raised the issue of academic freedom, charged that they had been fired because they were "dangerous reds." What had appeared to...
J. Frank Dobie, who put the honor and the data together, is as Texan as the steers he celebrates. An anti-industrialist and individualist, he once went to jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called...
Eight years ago, almost all of the two hundred and fifty accredited colleges in the United States agreed to waive their detailed entrance requirements, for an experimental group of thirty schools, all over the country. They freed these schools from the obligation to teach certain required subjects, and merely asked...
Harvard, too, agreed, in principle, and joined in the experiment. It did not, however, change the requirement of three examinations chosen from a number of "academic" subjects, in addition to the English exam. Thus it prescribed the curriculum of these courses, and seriously hampered the development of new programs of...