Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Harvard graduate students are extremely self-focused, and that makes it hard to bring them together on any particular issue," says Elisabeth Laskin, the GSC representative for the History Department. "I don't mean this in a negative way, but simply that the nature of the academic world is one...
Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Paul C. Weiler, an expert in the field of academic labor who has been at Harvard for twenty years, says he cannot remember there ever being a movement by the faculty to unionize.
Neither can Elizabeth Doherty, assistant dean for academic planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or Elaine Bernard, who directs the Trade Union Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
MIT's choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because...
She attributed the crucial element of the deal's finalization to "chemistry," a critical conjunction of a significant capital campaign at Radcliffe and an increasingly broad academic focus in Radcliffe Yard.