Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Indian program concentrates instead on educational theory and techniques in general with the hope that its graduates will adapt what they learn to the specific needs of their Native American communities...
...protection of basic civil liberties, he feels the University has no political obligations-the academic must predominate, so while the University needs to find ways to become involved in world affairs this must be done by means of an orderly discipline of instruction. Epps sees Harvard moving to adapt itself to modern problems by changing the emphasis in existing academic structures and perhaps adding new institutions, but insists that this be done wholly academically, with a disciplinary approach. Explaining this attitude, Epps recalls that Harvard responded to the demands of post-World War II society by developing new institutions such...
EVERYBODY'S got problems. Leonard Bernstein has problems, Samuel P. Huntngton has problems. A director seeking to adapt the Canterbury Tales for the stage has his share of headaches, too. But Laurence Bergreen, director of the Loeb Experimental Theatre production of Canterbury Tales has managed to deal with his problems in a way others might envy...
...have no money for changes, we should be candid about it. If we want to preserve the old model, then we should adapt admissions accordingly. If on the contrary (as I think we should) we want to adopt a new model, and take into account student trends toward part-time outside involvement, we must see to it that intellectual substance be preserved, so that in all the new and multiple programs there be a core, if not of common knowledge, at least of questions and methods of thought...
...essence the Center cannot be distinguished from the general academic context of which it is a part. The demand to suppress it is in fact a demand to suppress freedom of academic research. Serious radicals ought to be the first to defend that freedom. Any effective effort to adapt and reform our society and the international order will depend heavily on the quality of thinking and knowledge on which it rests. The universities are one of the few places where such independent analysis can be carried on in a systematic way. If the extremists should succeed in disrupting the universities...