Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both faculty and students agree in their characterization of McArthur as the model corporate figure whose role--the CEO--is delineated daily within the school's case studies. For better or for worse, he does what is necessary to run the great MBA factory across the river--promoting growth through his executives and middle managers, but rarely fraternizing with the workers...
...although there is no display for the 1980s, the events of the past year seem to indicate that the University, that giant octopus of academia, has not changed its mind about growth...
Such expansion has raised questions about the underlying aims of the University, its role in the community and the purpose of growth itself. Is Harvard primarily an academic institution or a real estate company? Many asked, "Why build a hotel?" Members of the faculty noted that the site could be better used as a library or a building to ease the faculty office crunch. Community activists screamed about insensitivity, charging that the University was destroying area neighborhoods...
...government findings are not due for several months, they are expected to resolve the rumors that have circulated in education journals, the national media and congressional offices since 1986. In those reports, critics have charged that some colleges--particularly on the East and West coasts--have restricted the rapid growth of Asian-Americans on campus through quotas or other discriminatory measures...
...experience running Dukakis' operation bolstered Estrich's scholarship, as well. Her newly acquired knowledge of, and experience with, election law has been an area of growth which she has been able to share directly with students in her class. "It made me a better teacher," she says...