Word: academicized
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"There is a misperception that the Rhodes is only open to political careers," Lui said. However, she said, selection committees for both the Rhodes and the Marshall award scholarships to students from all academic disciplines.
Alumnae focused both on the future of their own organization--not mentioned in the merger deal that took effect Friday--and on the nebulous academic emphasis of the new Institute.
Several attendees were particularly concerned that the Institute's mission statement does not confine its focus to women and gender, but rather calls for academic research across the disciplines.
"I don't know what we can do," said Cornell Provost Don M. Randel. "We've been pretty steady in academic quality and things that matter, and we'll continue to do that."
The book has produced strong reactions, both positive and negative, in the academic community. "It sounds reasonable," says the University of Louisiana's Lewis Pyenson, author of The Young Einstein (1985), of Zackheim's theory. "I'd like to see what evidence has been dug up to support it." But...