Word: ozment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of History Steven Ozment says Harvard may be called to task for its reputation of not caring about undergraduates and their interaction with professors. Alumni, he says, may be reluctant to see their fundraising dollars go to aloof research professors...
...think [Pilbeam's] got to be prepared to prove to people outside that this is not a problem," says Ozment. "I think that is going to test his agility...
...Professor of History Steven Ozment, discussing Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's first five years in office...
When asked whether a course devoted exclusivelyto Western civilization might be too ethnocentric,Ozment noted that the course includes somelectures on other civilizations. In addition, hesaid that the West has "grown and developed eitherby other cultures invading it or by it beinginvaded by other cultures...
...West has never been a hermetically sealed,narrow culture," Ozment said, adding that chargesof ethnocentricity are often based "on lack of afull understanding of the nature and culture ofWestern civilization...