Word: academicization
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Verhaeghen has fun with academic jargon, but his writing is otherwise topologically stable. Channeling Grass and the magic realists, he has a kids' TV magician overseeing construction of the Berlin Wall, and a cat mediating Andermans' love life. Of the university dining hall, Andermans notes: "Friday's pizza was not...
Long after he retired from active academic work, Diana would drive Stewart to the departmental student-faculty lunches that he had instituted during his time as classics chair.
But, he said, despite their increased presence on campus, international students still face a number of financial and academic hurdles, including ineligibility for many grants.
Graduate schools across the country experienced a significant increase in the enrollment of minority students during the last academic school year, according to a annual report released last week by a major graduate school advocacy group.
The report, authored by the Council of Graduate Students, found that minority students, both domestic and international, composed 28 percent of the overall graduate student population during the 2006-2007 academic school year, compared to 26 percent the previous year. In addition, every minority group saw at least a three...