Word: scholarshipped
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...years, Ann Landers has been helping victims of lost love and unwelcome house guests. Now she's following some of her own good advice by donating $1 million for a Medical School scholarship fund. Landers--whose real name is Esther P. Lederer--says she is making the donation in honor of Derek Bok. In fact, Landers once complimented Bok's prominent proboscis in her column. Or maybe that was Dear Abby...
...problem here may be one of definition. Kelley's book falls short of the standards of serious biography: it is too sloppy in its scholarship, too uncritical of its sources, too single-minded in its pursuit of the sensational and salacious. In a sense, the book is a compilation of the sort of speculation, freewheeling opinions and water-cooler gossip that journalists hear every day but that rarely make it into the news pages. As such, it has an understandable fascination -- and possibly some historical validity. Water- cooler gossip, after all, is not only entertaining. Sometimes it contains pieces...
While provost at Princeton, Rudenstine earned a reputation for being receptive to unconventional scholarship yet meticulous in upholding academic standards. Since his appointment, he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of attracting minorities into academia. He has announced his commitment to bolstering undergraduate education at Harvard (and said he hopes to teach a freshman seminar next spring). He has discussed the importance of University unity, the need for an overall educational mission, his aversion to absolute administrative decentralization. He plans to appoint a provost, a University-wide dean responsible for coordinating Harvard's atomized parts...
...past 10 years, the study of gender has become accepted as a legitimate topic of scholarship for both male and female professors. But economics scholars say that as long as women have been in the labor force, economists have been studying gender...
...Fuchs's scholarship looks particularly at women in relation to their position in family life. Other economists studying gender, however, have begun to look at women as individuals apart from the family structure and, more specifically, at issues of discrimination...