Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant from the National Science Foundation will enable Gerald Holton, associate professor of Physics, to take a leave of absence for research next year...
...Academic Mind is a report on academic freedom. Based on lengthy interviews with 2500 social scientists, the book tries to appraise the effect of McCarthyism on American scholars and teachers. The questionnaires were designed by Paul Lazarsfeld and the Columbia Bureau for Applied Social Research, financed by Robert Hutchins' Fund for the Republic, and administered in 1955 by Elmo Roper and the National Opinion Research Center...
...regard a university as a factory, then it might build its reputation on either of its two products: alumni or research. In practice, producing alumni is a tricky and unrewarding business, for there is no practical method of evaluating a young alumnus, nor of telling whether his quality is produced in college or in some other manner. As a result, you must wait until the public notices that your alumni become rich and famous--usually a half century after you have raised the quality of education. Only a college which views its mission as eternal can depend upon such...
...college on the make, the royal road to reputation is the research production line. If a university can beg, borrow, or steal a dozen scholars who then illuminate the academic horizon, it may rise from anonymity in a single decade. In part this is due to the comparative ease of evaluating scholarship as opposed to evaluating graduates, and in part it is due to the fact that academic reputations are national, whereas personal reputations of graduates are usually local...
...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...