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...creation of SEAS within a national context. Today, most of American higher education favors specialization, not generalization. Whereas in 1970 more than half of baccalaureate degrees were awarded in a liberal arts discipline, by 1995 that number had declined to nearly 40 percent. This suggests that the liberal arts model in America is in decline, and the creation of SEAS is ominous when seen in this context. It is a step, however small, in that direction...
...productive child that avoids her peers. (This may hint at the rationale for the current cosmetic change.) The reasons are varied and many, and I’d rather not appraise a field’s essence for rebellious idiosyncrasies. But both the recent decline of the liberal arts model, as well as the field’s history of self-fragmentation, suggest that the creation of SEAS is a step in the wrong direction...
...biggest impact on the world, I think, was to provide a model of a kind of social science that is politically engaged and balanced in its use of textbook science with practical experience,” Parker said. “His initial training was in agricultural economics, which is a very applied economic theory...
...guys were not free to take jobs like that because they would be drafted.”Greenhouse describes entering The New York Times’ headquarters for the first time as “stepping into the wilderness.” Without a female role model in the field of journalism, Greenhouse says her future was not at all clear. “I think I was very naïve,” she says. “I just was going to do what I was going to do.”Greenhouse rose rapidly through...
...Gomes, however, says that he believes that the Overseers have gradually strayed from Eliot’s model, ceding much of their designated power to the Corporation and the central administration, which grew from one vice president to four under President Derek C. Bok in the 1970s...