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...late 1960s, Keen left academia and eventually moved to Northern California, becoming a contributing editor to Psychology Today. Over the past 20 years he has been conducting seminars on personal mythology. Fire in the Belly is his 12th book, and he regards it as another effort in his lifelong exploration of modern mythology, in this case, the mythology of manhood...
Technology, too, has been a revolutionary force in academia, Bok said. Computers and videotapes, he said, have changed both the way students communicate their thoughts and the manner of taking in new knowledge from professors...
...federal government thinks its money is being misused by academia, it will invest it elsewhere--perhaps in airfare for top Bush Administration officials. The loss of funding would be a disaster for the academic community, and universities would have no one to blame but themselves...
William Graham, called "Bill" by his friends and associates, says he always wanted to pursue a career in academia. "I knew I wanted to work in higher education," he says. "I knew I wanted to continue living in an intellectual environment and working on projects involving problems of the mind...
...wagon train from the murderous Indians -- oops!, misunderstood Native Americans -- Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus arrives just as public outrage is building to a peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans are now mounting a mopping-up operation against that last bastion of 1960s-style thought, colleges and universities...