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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Only if you think there's a real dearth of scholarly merit in Afro-American [studies] (so that concentration means there's nobody any good anywhere else--which is a preposterous notion) is this field different from any other," he adds...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

During recent deliberations over honors recommendations for graduating students in the Department of Anthropology, outgoing Dean of Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam says he and his colleagues discovered that students' grades did not reflect their academic merit...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Grade Inflation Becomes an Educational Fact of College Life | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Though educational institutions often pride themselves on being the ultimate meritocracies, when these same institutions vie for funding from the government, foundations and corporations, success can be determined by factors other than merit. Harvard's age, its mammoth endowment and extensive alumni networks all affect how big a piece of the national pie Harvard calls...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Adam S. Hickey, S | Title: Total Assets | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Engell said that Phi Beta Kappa is the only College-wide honor society which selects its members solely on the basis of academic merit. The honorees are selected based on their GPA and on letters of recommendation...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...that active in political campaigns and that turned out to be an asset later on in her career because she was seen as achieving her position by merit and not political patronage," says Dr. Richard Waldhorn, Gorelick's husband of 22 years and chief of the division of pulmonary and critical-care medicine at Georgetown Hospital...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Laying Down the Law | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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