Word: academicization
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“I don’t think there was much of anything that was discussed outside the traditional academic career path,” Peyerl says of his time at Harvard. “That was the career path that most graduate advisers thought you would take.?...
Prather had a similar experience, leafing through career services materials while his faculty mentor, whom he described as “a wonderful, old-school Harvard researcher,” offered little guidance off the academic road.
“There’s a lot more representation of science graduates or science students who come back to talk to the current students who have not been within academe,” McNally says. “The days of Harvard being focused exclusively on preparing for...
But some mentors still make their academic preference clear.
Despite several campaigns over the past 20 years to create a program in Asian-American studies, Harvard remains without a single full-time professor in the field. But while this gap may take time to fill given the recent downturn in humanities faculty hiring, improving Harvard’s pedagogical...