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...members are elected by current members,” explained AAAS Director of Publication Phyllis Bendell. “They receive nominations and there is a review process of their scholarship and work. The criteria for nomination and election is distinction in their particular fields...
...fellow scholars,” Belfer Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt wrote of his election into the Academy in an e-mail. “One never knows quite why some people are selected and others are not, but I assume it is partly a response to scholarship, partly to my broader work as a teacher, editor, and administrator, and partly due to plain good luck...
Although the AAAS is situated in Cambridge, Bendell affirms that there is no connection between the AAAS’ location and the number of Harvard nominations. “Our members are elected completely based on their scholarship. We have members from all over the United States,” she said...
...League presidents refuse to allow their schools to partake in playoffs of any sort—the only varsity sport for which they maintain this stance. The sacrifices required, they wrongly claim, would detract from their student-athletes’ studies, and the pressure to hold even with scholarship schools would force the further lowering of admissions requirements for football players, which no one is quite prepared to accept...
...young academics. By contrast, the curricular review seeks to make general the connections between diverse disciplines. This would mean encouraging professors to create courses that draw on a variety of academic traditions and to guide their students to write senior theses that refuse to conform to one category of scholarship. Yet it seems clear that this cannot happen if professors themselves do not start to think more flexibly about what it means to be trained in a special field. As long as there is limited faculty interest in cross-disciplinary work, the ideals of the curricular review will remain nebulous...