Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These philosophies share one common thread. Each assumes that Harvard as an institution supercedes Harvard as a community. In each, absolute standards for the tenure of faculty members and the maximizing of profits from investments of the endowment assume a much greater importance than community input in the making of...
The theories ignore the vital fact that without the student body Harvard is reduced to its secondary roles as a research institution, a library and an investment firm. The University offers teaching and education not as a consumer commodity but as its own primary focus. Yet those who pay to...
THE 350TH anniversary has helped to inculcate the immortality of this institution, in all likelihood helping to perpetuate the corporate, paternalistic structure of Harvard. As long as the community accepts administration arguments that its actions are designed to preserve Harvard, calls for divestment, for the tenure of professors who serve...
Treating students and alumni as a community rather than a subset of a grand institution greater than all of us has other implications as well. One of the most frequent complaints registered by students and faculty alike concerns what some describe as the cold, absolutist, individualist atmosphere of the University...
As long as the institution occupies an intangible realm removed from those who constitute it, ideas wil tend to take on a life apart from those who create them. Professors communicate to one another through books. Bok communicates with the community through long, logical and legal treatises devoid of personal...