Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cutback of $665,878 from the original Dukakis request for a new scholarship program, which would fund low-interest student loans and aid to needy part-time undergraduates. Officials at the Governor's Office for Education said yesterday that administrative costs for the program would now be funded entirely from the base scholarship appropriation...
...only option for a career in business academia. Many B-School professors completed their doctoral study at Harvard; but at other schools, fewer Harvard MBA's join the faculty ranks. Harvard students' excellence in case research is unquestioned, say other business school professors, but their potential for scholarship in a non-case atmosphere is limited...
...Since the Harvard Business School Ph.D. is more oriented toward writing cases, the students often don't come out with as keen a level of scholarship and as theoretically-minded," says James W. Kuhn '50, professor of management and organization at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. "I tend to accept this general impression as a little harsher than reality justifies...but you certainly do not have the same kind of scholarship you see at [the business schools of] the University of Chicago or Carnegie-Mellon [University...
Weil adds, "Harvard's training is different, and its research is different from the rest of the world. Harvard considers research to be the documentation of cases, that the way to push knowledge forward is to write cases, not scholarship...
...subject of affirmative action arises out of the University's moral commitment to excellence in learning in the service of scholarship and society. This commitment extends to the foundation of the University as a moral community of scholars. The joint action of Church and Colony in the formation of the College speaks to this conjunction of civic and scholarly virtue. Harvard has never been devoted simply to abstract scholarship, and it has always understood its primary commitment to the preservation and dissemination of knowledge in the active rather than the passive voice...