Word: duffey
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...scholars on today's faculty are no less impressive, e.g., Harvey Cox at the Divinity School, Robert Coles in psychiatry, Martin Feldstein in economics. "The critical mass of talent there is stunning," says Chancellor Joseph Duffey of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty ideologies range from the Marxism of Historian John Womack to Galbraith's liberalist economics to the conservative political science of James Q. Wilson to the libertarian ruminations of Philosopher Robert Nozick. "This," says John Shattuck, vice president for government affairs, "is a very dynamic and chaotic institution...
...little and scattered is what many educators feel Harvard's core provides. The University of Massachusetts' Duffey describes its effect on learning as modest. Harvard, he says, does not "seem any closer to making judgments about the qualities of an educated mind." Others note that with the core, a student may graduate from Harvard without having read a word of Shakespeare, the Bible or the U.S. Constitution...
...group of officials, originally formed last April by University Chancellor Joseph D. Duffey in response to campus-wide concerns about harassment on campus, presented a progress report on racial problems at the university, in addition to the new policy statement. --The Collegian
From Harvard, most of Bok's key lieutenants mingled including Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, Vice President for Finance Thomas O'Brien, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education Patricia A. Graham. Chancellor of UMass Joseph Duffey represented his school, and perhaps as many as 100 legislators, led by chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee Chester G. Atkins, along with leaders of the House and Senate Education committees. Senate president William Bulger reportedly indicated he was coming, but never showed...
...called Derek in July and suggested that we might do this together," Duffey said, explaining how the first such gala in recent Harvard memory took shape. He proposed it to symbolize the cooperation between public and private universities. "Of course we are both interested in the legislature," he added...