Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those of Cambridge have clashed include University expansion into the surrounding community and the burden Harvard's tax-exempt status places on the rest of the city. In both cases, a majority on the council charges Harvard with arrogance--a "longstanding, inbred arrogance," according to one city councilor. The add that the University has little feeling for the people their decisions affect. "The place doesn't talk with a coherent voice," Sullivan says. "The community relations people are people of good will and they understand the ramifications of Harvard's actions--they've got to get some power," he adds...
...Well, it differs in several ways. First of all, it does add certain things which either seem to perhaps be neglected in the General Education field, such as the specific emphasis on ethical choice as one category, or added some things that seem to reflect new educational needs that are more apparent now than at the time the General Education program was adopted. And two, that I would mention there is the emphasis on quantitative skills, which even when Gen Ed was adopted, which is about the time I went to college, was perceived as something that scientists and engineers...
...mandate is not over yet. "If equal access to a Harvard education means becoming one of the boys--if it's an end and not a means--then that's not what we want. Radcliffe cannot be absorbed, assimilated or co-opted into the pie, it's got to add another piece to it. And that's an ongoing process...
...financial backing to examine them. The Mellon Foundation this year gave Radcliffe $300,000 over three years, one-third earmarked for Harvard faculty to do research at the Schlesinger Library or Radcliffe's Data Resource Center. The research must contribute to a new course in women's studies or add material about women to an existing course. Abigail J. Stewart, acting director of Radcliffe's Data Resource and Research Center, says Harvard faculty proposals for Mellon money have come in rather slowly--two applications for the fall deadline and eight for the spring. She points out that response...
...these reasonable men is Ylvisaker. "As I weigh it," he says, "my scale tips the other direction." The dean says that in order to determine national educational policies, one must add up the views of the Director of the National Institute for Education, the Commissioner of Education (who heads the Office of Education within HEW) and the Assistant Secretary for Education...