Word: academia
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...faculty inaccessibility is really symptomatic of a larger problem, that of the low priority accorded to teaching within academia and, in particular, at Harvard. Case in point: American historian Alan Brinkley taught the most popular course at Harvard four years ago, receiving the Undergraduate Council's 1987 Levenson Prize for teaching. That year, Brinkley was denied tenure...
University officials argue that academia is fundamentally different from other professions, and that professors need the protection of tenure in order to conduct their scholarship without fear of reprisal. In this view, tenure is the guarantor of unimpeded academic freedom...
...that there is more at stake now than the careers of a handful of young faculty members. At a time when the number of Ph.D.'s is declining and the number of faculty retirements is on the rise, the ability of the University to remain in the forefront of academia is threatened...
...precise causes of such pitiful numbers are unclear. The dearth of minorities and women entering Ph.D. programs produces a small applicant pool, but the lack of minority and women role models in academia contributes to the dearth of Ph.D. candidates. Even when one considers the small applicant pool, Harvard still lags way behind. According to Harvard's most recent affirmative action report, Harvard would have to add 17 tenured women and 11 non-tenured women to its faculty to make female representation consistent with the available pool...
...fascinated with his own insider status, and the diary at times reads like a "Who's Who" of American politics, literature, medicine and academia. Despite the fact that Mencken ordered the diary sealed after his death, these are very much the public reminiscences of a very public...