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...type of student you shape your teaching to," Dunn says...
...first permanent dean] will shape a lot of the intellectual agenda. She has to figure out how to make all the pieces of Radcliffe work," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in early February...
Though she said yesterday that the professorial appointments "never seemed worth the upheaval" of moving, Faust said the opportunity to head Radcliffe--and effectively shape the future of the Institute--"was something completely different, and something I couldn't duplicate at Penn...
What is new is difficult. It has not yet taken full shape; it is not yet trustworthy, but it is extremely powerful. Splitting the atom, discovering radiation, Keynesian economics, postructuralism, relativity and now computerization: all are the results of great social debate and change, and all have their share of ugliness. Major shifts in human thought are not negotiated without some who recognize power in the new--the democratic, the economic, the wired--and seek to exploit...
...today some historically black colleges with a majority of white students and faculty are at an important crossroads. Says M. Christopher Brown, a professor of higher education at the University of Illinois: "It doesn't mean they're going to disappear completely, but they will have a decidedly different shape...