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Hoyte's ideas are appealing because they attack the malaise of hidebound tradition that plagues our campus. He all but endorsed a real tenure track, which would result in Harvard tenuring homegrown scholars before their hair turns gray. He argued for stronger career development programs, so that moving up the administrative and academic ladder involves more than just kissing the asses of the white males in power. He suggested that the ad hoc process which generally decides whether a scholar gets tenure may systematically eliminate scholars of diverse ideas and backgrounds...
...emblem of pain among antigovernment zealots. That disaster, said McCain, "fanned the flames of distrust." Indeed, the general perception that the federal action was justified may come in for serious revisionism. In an article in the May issue of the religious journal First Things, Dean Kelley, a respected legal scholar, reviews the records of the siege and questions the need for and the ferocity of the initial government raid. The government's actions at Waco's cataclysmic finale, Kelley notes, also raise problems...
...perhaps the most devoted scholar among the four favorites for dean, Clark would bring to the office an academic perspective it has not seen in recent years...
...Ph.D. is the highest academic degree which a scholar can obtain in any given field of study. And like all types of degrees, it is being awarded with greater frequency and being required of greater numbers of applicants to positions in industry, education and academia. The recent hiring of two new Assistant Deans of Freshmen, both with Ph.D.s, points to the pervasive standard for hiring practices which is fast becoming the norm...
YOUR STORY ATTEMPTED TO TRIVIALIZE the role of scholarly efforts like the Jesus Seminar in promoting honest public discussion of religious issues. You characterized me as a "onetime Protestant clergyman." I am the former head of the Society of Biblical Literature, a Guggenheim fellow and a senior Fulbright scholar. I have written a dozen books and more than 100 published articles and have taught at several well-respected universities. The Jesus Seminar Fellows are similarly downgraded to just "rebel scholars." The roster in The Five Gospels shows that the group includes some of the most accomplished biblical scholars...