Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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He gained nationwide attention last March with a plan to have B.U. take over the school system in Chelsea, the first time in the U.S. that a private educational institution has administered a public school system. Now in its first year of operation, the plan has been sharply criticized by...
But after setting up a nearly apocalyptic assessment of the standing of higher education in American society, Spence says he is hopeful that the modern research institution will endure--with Harvard leading the way.
Many other universities already license their name and insignia. Stanford, for example, regulates its name, the block "S" symbol with and without a tree, the Stanford seal and the name "Cardinal" when it refers to the school, said Maria L. Gladfelter, an administrator at the institution's licensing office. She...
"Obviously Harvard's relationship as an institution with the city of Cambridge and Boston is a sensitive one," Miller says. "We try to be sensitive to the kids applying from those [area] schools."
The University justly refuses to recognize any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, sex, color, sexual orientation or national origin. It is unfortunate that the young and idealistic students of this institution cannot follow the same enlightened policy.