Word: reform
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Adler's age: 84, a span that he reflects upon with profound satisfaction. "The greatest single piece of good fortune anyone can have," he says, "is work worth doing." To Adler, the essence of that work has been educational reform -- away from trendy relativism and back to absolute values, which he believes should be taught from kindergarten through graduate school. He especially deplores the contemporary notion that metaphysics is nonsense and that science and other subjects can be taught without reference to an individual's responsibility to society. "The lack of standards of right and wrong, good...
Though concern over apartheid among the faculty had been growing, gradually but steadily, for some time, Botha's announcement of the whites-only election on May 6 was the immediate catalyst for change at Stellenbosch. It precipitated the rebellion of the professors, who demanded that real reform take place. This challenge shocked students into attention. "Politics has passed rugby as the main interest on campus since the election was announced," confirms Philip Nel, director of the Institute of Soviet Studies...
...last year, Congressional action on tax reform and mandatory retirement dealt higher education its first significant legislative defeats in recent years...
...Reform Act of 1986 hurt schools in a number of ways, costing Harvard several million dollars in lost revenues. The overhaul removed deductions for charitable donations to colleges and universities, changed the tax-free status of such institutions when they borrow money, and taxed graduate student scholarships and grants...
...higher education officials think that the Tax Reform Act was neither a defeat for institutions of higher learning nor a signal of a new Congressional sentiment that colleges and universities ought to be treated as another special interest...