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...This will give people it sense of what to aim for," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman, an expert in the education field. He added the new report will motivate schools to eliminate the grade inflation and "excessive leniency" that characterize much of higher education today...
...force a department to bring up a name," adds David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, who has written extensively on higher education...
...judged better than those of many other American universities. Many other schools fired professors who invited the Fifth Amendment. Harvard expressed its disdain but in most cases allowed the professors to stay on. Until more information emerges, the best measure of Harvard's actions may be a study which Riesman conducted in 1955. "I found that what really mattered was the atmosphere among the scholars. People at Harvard at least felt free to do whatever research they wanted...
...Riesman noted, that atmosphere disintegrated. After the period of calm that swept the country in the late '50s and early '60s, the Vietnam War, the rise of the counterculture and radical student activism splintered campuses around the country into angry factions...
...surprisingly, this administrative lack of purpose extended to the faculty as well. Harvard had the largest Students for a Democratic Society chapter in the country, and it counted a number of prominent professors as members. "The administration was in a dilemma," said Riesman, himself a strong critic of the war and active in the peace movement, but a moderate in the sense that he rejected the revolutionary calls of the new left and the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out ideology of the counterculture. "What was the administration to do with professors who incited violence? What to do with [Higgins...