Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard University is honestly "interested in facilitating serious foreign study for credit," as the OCS Guide claims, it should want to see students find the best schools. It seems logical that Harvard, with its strong reputation in international academia, could establish programs at the best institutions in any country. Travel companies, without Harvard's clout, can offer no such guarantees...
...This produces a beneficial chain reaction: if Harvard hires more minority and women in tenured posts, Harvard will be seen as a comfortable environment for such candidates, making recruitment of more minorities and women easier. These minority and female faculty will then act as role models for undergraduates choosing academia as a profession...
...special issue that illuminates a city we all often take for granted. We complain that we never see Boston or take advantage of all that it has to offer, when all it takes is 60 cents to transport ourselves to a universe beyond the petty confines of academia. Our bold reporters ventured forth into the parts of Boston that you have always wondered about and some that you may never want to see. They returned with the thrill-packed accounts you are about to read...
...orignal days when President Lowell began the Society of Fellows, the purpose was to break the stronghold of Ph.D. s, which seemed to be oppressive in American academia at the time," says Gleason, a New York native. "So I don't have a doctorate in mathematics and have never written a thesis, but with the fellowship I could study anything I wanted, and I studied math...
...passing references to different fields of academia, the professors and students say that CLS has sister movements in other areas of study...