Word: academicization
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Like the pontiff, Gnswein is Bavarian by birth and an academic by training, with a doctorate in canon law. His impressive intellectual credentials notwithstanding, Gnswein is devoted to the administrative and ceremonial requirements of his current job. Though he tends to keep a low profile, the 51-year...
He spent the end of the academic year in his hospital bed, but he rallied back from critical condition last summer.
He kept a hand puppet of a fighting nun in his desk drawer for special occasions. Vincent J. Tompkins, a former academic dean who served under Knowles, recalled one Saturday afternoon when the dean dropped to his knees to entertain Tompkins’ children with the puppet.
“For the staff, it was just this sense that he really cared about us as people,” said Thompson, former associate dean of academic affairs. “It just made it more than the standard working for somebody.”
That attendance in class is desirable seems self-evident, and the (sometimes subtle) benefits it provides are many. Professors naturally prefer an audience to their presentation, whose questions can guide discussion and instruction. Even seeing the way students react to information can inform how much time a professor spends on...