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...Great research-oriented universities like Harvard and Michigan, the pride of higher learning in America, will probably stay at world-class levels. But both the elite giants and less prestigious schools will place a stronger emphasis on the quality of classroom teaching. Professors accustomed to thinking of research as their real work will be under pressure to spend time with first- and second-year undergraduates as institutions adapt to an increasingly diverse academic population -- not just more women and minorities, but older students and part-timers with special needs. Even today, only 20% of the nation's undergraduates are young...
Rarely can Americans fathom what goes on outside the United states. Maybe the widespread poverty and violence in American cities approximate the conditions of poor, war-torn Third World countries, but the conflict we see at home will always be the conflict of a rich society...
Kovach said the grant was a "very encouraging" gesture from the Ford Foundation. Kovach added that the grant is "important to the work done at [the Nieman Foundation]" and shows "very strong support for the third world [by the Ford Foundation...
...economic progress, much as it may be loathed by Islamic fundamentalists and others, can dissolve such atavistic rages. A Japanese management expert says, "People don't want nationality and soil; they want satellites and Sony." A little glib, perhaps. But ultimately there is a universal desire in the Third World to achieve the better life that the developed world promises, or, as sociologist Alvin Toffler puts it, for the slow world to catch up with the fast world. The U.S. and other advanced nations will have to help. It is ironic that at this very moment the U.S. itself seems...
...irrepressible religious impulse -- the revenge of the sacred, as it has been called -- is perhaps even more clearly displayed outside our own country. Note the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, the strength of Hinduism, both often accompanied by violence. Throughout the Third World, Christian churches, especially the Evangelicals, are gaining more converts than ever before. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, despite decades of officially imposed atheism, religion is once again a major force...