Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, in contrast to the flux of students, Harvard and its reputation have stood firm over the centuries. As deeply entrenched as Widener Library is a way of thinking hostile to educational reform: Harvard's collective ego, a chest-thumping, self-assertiveness that blinds the school's faculty and administration to the faults of the institution. Chief among these misconceptions, the leitmotif of all CUE meetings, is an implacable faith that since Harvard is the best, no student should receive academic credit for work done elsewhere, work that is by definition sub-par to a Harvard Education...
...most egregious case of this ego at work is the Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students would go abroad, and the logistical problem of creating a bureaucratic structure to monitor the program...
...this fact, since technical feasibility was not really the issue in the decision. Rather, Harvard's reputation was at stake, for to grant credit widely for study abroad would be to admit openly that another university can provide an educational experience equal to a year at Harvard. The collective ego recoiled at such a thought, and the problem of study abroad became moot...
...GOAL OF adding a majority of "independent" members to corporate boards of directors is to establish an alter-ego for management. At least nine board members would be assigned specific "constituencies," (employee well-being, consumer protection, environmental protection, community relations, shareholder rights, law compliance, technology assessment, anti-trust standards and political relations) and would oversee and inform the board about issues relevant to their fields. The result, at the very least, would be to sensitize management to community issues and interests and raise questions about corporation policies...
...Craddock is a novel in which we see Maugham working out his familiar obsessions--the mother endangered in pregnancy, the stillborn child, the pain of love, and the quest for freedom. Just as Maugham identified with his mother, he makes Bertha Craddock his alter ego...Bertha represents both Maugham's mother and Maugham; she is the unconsciously disguised homosexual lover...