Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goulding is the third tutor to admit to substituting her own work for Gophers' scholarship, adding some fatty drops of bacon grease to the raging inferno that is now Minnesota Papergate. The first tutor to come forward, Jan Gangelhoff, claimed to have done 400 assignments for Minnesota basketball players in a six-year span from...
...granddaughter to Senior Gift (let's face it, no students are making enough now by themselves to give hundreds of dollars of their own money earned without any major fiscal support from their family). I say wonderful--let them give, let them fund students like myself (Class of 1954 scholarship recipient). Theirs is a gift that keeps on giving, however, and lest we forget it gives to me and them. Many gifts contribute to reputations and bring great personal satisfaction to benefactor (I didn't write all those letters of gratitude to members of the Class of 1954 for nothing...
Kovacevich's opinion is frighteningly misguided in its approach to scholarship. As academics we are engaged in a quest for understanding the world, reality and truth. To be sure, Kovacevich is not so nave as to think that his reality, his daily experiences, are the same as those of a black man or a Latina. But it is frighteningly nave for a government concentrator to assume that daily experiences have nothing to do with important academic investigations...
...University is our middle name," Adams says. "The publishing philosophy is to do a certain number of worthy academic books that are saleable to the trade, but our mission is to publish good works of scholarship...
...Selling Scholarship...