Word: professionalizing
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...Kennedy School is a profession school, and becoming even more so," says Lecturer in Public Policy Robert B. Reich. "Our faculty are distinguished by being first-class scholars and often practitioners. We have managed to blend practitioners and scholars as most professional schools...
Administrators note that the competition among graduate programs for the small number of minorities interested in entering the profession is high. And the GSAS recruitment strategy is designed accordingly, with a large budget, carefully targeted mailings and many recruitment trips geared toward identifying minorities who are both qualified and interested...
Evans likes to tell the story that a few years ago his office looked over the application forms of minority students listed "academia" as a profession they would like to enter.
"The journalistic profession has been shockingly backward in seeking out, hiring, training and promoting Negroes," declared President Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Laying some of the blame for the previous summer's inner-city race riots on the "white perspective" of the press, the 1968 report concluded...
"There are now some presidents who bridge the gap between the worlds of traditional academic values and the policy issues that are increasingly crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says...