Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempting to explain the shift towards literature within Afro-American studies, scholars focus on three areas: the increasing complexity of the political issues surrounding Black Americans, the theoretical sophistication offered by feminist and deconstructionist approaches to literature and changes in the composition of academia...
...graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was the first course of its kind taught at Harvard...
Professors said yesterday that the dilemma for Walder and Oi is a classic example of the challenges in faculty recruiting that Harvard and other universities now face as the number of two-career families in academia increases. These professors add that Harvard's response to this case will make clear how responsive the University intends to be to the needs of such couples...
Perhaps Newsweek or Time will pick up on this and other surveys showing similar trends towards careers in academia and public-service, and suddenly proclaim that our generation has found its way. Having become repulsed by Ivan Boesky and all he represents, our generation would seem to be as socially and politically active as it should be. Future professors of social history may even point to the response to the College survey as indicating that Harvard students were somehow in the "vanguard" of a broader movement towards more socially-productive careers than selling junk bonds...
...creed of faculty at the Kennedy School of Government, as even the world of academia turns to television for legitimacy...