Word: inertia
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Still, change comes slowly at Harvard, and alumni identify the threat of institutional inertia as the University's greatest challenge...
...these statements any less offensive to women than Mansfield's grade-inflation argument is to Black students have we decided that public sexism doesn't require a public response--or, worse, that Mansfield is right. The atmosphere of complacency and inertia surrounding this issue scares me it simply isn't safe to assume that everyone at Harvard is a feminist and will see Mansfield's comments as the predictable, tired, sexist statements they are. I am grateful to Mansfield, at any rate, for reminding me of the acute and persistent need for public and loud defense of women's rights...
...humanities and social sciences, for example, many large lecture classes still use midterms and finals as their basic requirements. Some toss in an undefined term-paper at the end. The Core office mandates its professors give, at minimum, a midterm and a final. This inertia continues despite what education scholars have long recommended: The most effective teaching and learning occurs through constant writing and revision...
...flip side--despite Harvard's storied institutional inertia--the faces of the administration have changed also: Activists take their calls for action not to Bok and Rosovsky, but to President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Provost Jerry R. Green...
Soon enough, the University will see whether a first-year with a good idea can overcome administrative inertia. Is Provost Jerry R. Green too busy looking over the Harvard Management Company's shoulder to contemplate a new money-saving venture? In Fine's own words, "There is no logical reason why anyone would oppose this program. It is to the benefit of the students, the faculty and the world at large." The question is whether Harvard is even listening...