Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the report is devoted to the idea of professional education for public service. What is needed, Bok says, "is nothing less than the education of a new profession," whose students "will share the common experience of holding important positions of responsibility involving policy making and administration." Probably the worst thing about the report is the reason Bok cites for instituting this plan. On the most superficial level. Bok refers to the loss of public confidence in the government because of the "divisive" issues of Vietnam, the "spectacle" of Watergate, and the failures of major federal programs such...
Dr. William A. Nolen, author of The Making of a Surgeon (1970), is hardly the first member of his profession to debunk faith healing, but he is the first to write open-mindedly about metaphysical medicine. He became so imbued with investigatory zeal that he subjected himself to a "psychic...
At the end of a hitch on a Navy cargo ship, Rogers dropped in on a college friend who was directing a workshop production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. "I thought, 'Here's a profession in which a) you must use your...
President Bok calls for "nothing less than the education of a new profession"--government employees and elected officials--in his third annual report to the Board of Overseers.
4) Interest among men and women students in learning about the challenges of combining profession, marriage and family raising is growing. The exploration of alternatives, problems and possible solutions should be sponsored by the University through individual counseling and/or lectures and meetings.