Word: neh
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After Shils' broadside, National Endowment Chairman Joseph Duffey manfully defended Shils' freedom of speech, but emphasized that the scholar's opinions were not those of the NEH. Said he: "Personally, I support the principle that there are some limited, but critical, larger needs of a society from which a university is not immune." So does Shils. His list is a small and cautious one, though. Universities, he feels, are obliged to offer access to higher education for all who qualify, to provide training in those professions that have an intellectual component (such as law and medicine), to make expert advice...
...idea seemed cheerful enough to officials of the Government's National Endowment for the Humanities: the honor of giving the eighth annual Jefferson lectures, which NEH sponsors, would go to University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils, 68, a world-renowned expert on the role of intellectuals in advanced and developing societies. But Shils chose to compose a jeremiad attacking the Federal Government for interference with higher education. Last week the cries of anguished response stretched all the way back to Washington...
...Harrison, however, believe their program will have long-term effects. As they state in their NEH program proposal, "If hopes become realities, graduate humanities departments will be populated at the end of this century with students who seek college or university teaching as merely one of several possible career tracks...
...seven-week program, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and grants from private corporations, will attempt to teach graduate students basic entrepreneurial skills, such as business language and corporate strategy...
College by newspaper, which began on Oct. 4, is the concept of Caleb A. Lewis, project director at the University of California Extension at San Diego. It is financed by a $96,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $42,500 from the Exxon Foundation. NEH is considering under writing additional courses on aspects of American life after the current one ends next month. Lewis would welcome the opportunity to continue and expand the program. "The person I want to reach most," he says, "is the guy who was turned off by school...