Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful appointment for Harvard...a terrific scholar-activist," Murphy says...
Following Willie's retirement announcement last year, Harvard began a search for a replacement--someone with a blend of expertise in urban education and community issues...
According to Dean Murphy, Noguera emerged as the leading candidate for the new position. Harvard then encouraged him to apply, Noguera says...
...Swarthmore, Wesleyan or Amherst. It doesn't have to be long, just enough to admit the truth: Liberal-arts colleges, you win. You possess the nation's most innovative minds, the most intellectual student body. You are the stomping grounds for the great thinkers of the next millennium. We, Harvard, will stop trying to lord over you, stop saying that we are better or smarter, because it just isn't true. You can out-think us any day of the week...
...wrong: Harvard students can be, and often are, great. They just aren't intellectuals. Sure, that first night the entire dorm gathered in somebody's common room and shared a bunch of ideas about what college was supposed to be, about where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...