Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, an underlying pattern has emerged: the American university has suddenly become a political arena -the prime forum for a generation that has lost faith in the ability of regular political institutions to solve such national problems as war, race and poverty. As a result, the university is losing whatever...
U.S. campus disorders have incited many state legislatures to consider repressive measures, some well intentioned, some reminiscent of the know-nothingism of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Clearly, the political university must be viewed with grave misgivings. Writing in The Public Interest, Robert A. Nisbet, a sociologist at the...
To student activists, though, such words lack credibility because the modern university is already, in their view, a de facto political institution. Politics, they argue, is concerned with how and by whom a society's resources shall be directed. As they see it, universities have become political not only...
Last spring, in reaction to Columbia and other campus eruptions, Congress attached several "antiriot" amendments to student aid legislation. The first of these was included in the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, which was signed into law October 8, 1968. It applies only to NSF funds, denying them to individuals who...
The second version was placed in an appropriation act for the Departments of Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and also in the Defense Department appropriation bill. It denies assistance to students who are convicted of crimes involving "the use of force, trespass or the...