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...tenured professorship at Harvard is the holy grail of American higher education. Aspiring academics spend years publishing or perishing, always trying to distinguish themselves enough to be considered “the leading scholar in the field” and therefore qualify for an appointment to the University’s tenured Faculty. And like the search for the grail, the path to tenure at Harvard is often a mystery. Partly as a result of this inscrutable tenure process, there have been several controversial tenure cases over the last few years where faculty have said they were treated unfairly...
Lerner’s childhood of turmoil gave way to a life of academic achievement as a leading author and revolutionary scholar. Establishing the first degree program in women’s history in the United States, Lerner became a Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin...
...painted chests to utilitarian containers devoid of any inscription. The James ossuary fell somewhere in the middle. Its owner says he was familiar with its inscription but, as a Jew, was unaware that the names were special. One day last spring he invited Lemaire--in Jerusalem on a scholar's break from his job as head of the Hebrew and Aramaic philology and epigraphy department at the Sorbonne in Paris--to examine some inscriptions in his collection. As an afterthought, the owner mentioned the names on the James box and showed Lemaire a photo...
...Summers criticized the quality of his work and chastised him for not spending enough time on campus. West has said he felt he was being attacked for what he perceived as the very noble endeavor of making his scholarship accessible outside the ivory tower. He saw himself as a scholar who was not afraid to take a stand on issues of public significance...
...accounts, the term “public intellectual” dates back to 1987, when Russell Jacoby coined it in The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe to describe the type of scholar whose disappearance his book lamented. He argued that colleges and universities had coopted all of society’s great minds and shut them up in the proverbial ivory tower, where their ideas and theories were of no use to the general public...