Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that the new concentration on public management entails academic research and teaching as well as practical training. In particular, the Energy and Environmental Policy Center, sparked by the work of professors Thomas C. Schelling and William Hogan and lecturer Daniel Yergin, has emerged as a respected voice in the field of conservation and in the world-wide competition for petroleum. Expansion doesn't stop there--Allison proudly details the plans for study groups on health policy and management and relations between government and business management. Funds for these projects are still forthcoming, but no one seems very worried. "We already...
...part for that reason, it decided in April not to recommend Eugene D. Genovese, one of the top historians in the field, for the next appointment. Committee members said another reason they rejected Genovese was his reputation as a "prickly" colleague...
...March, on the committee's recommendation, Rosovsky offered tenure in Afro-Am to three historians in the field. But Nathan I. Huggins, professor of history at Columbia University, was the only one of the trio to accept the offer. Huggins will assume the chairmanship of the department and direct the DuBois Institute, a center for studying issues concerning Afro-Americans, beginning July...
...Carter enthusiastically penned the legislation into law--and picked up the NEA endorsement for 1980--some observers wondered what field Carter, who promised to trim down the bureaucracy when he came to Washington in 1976, would look to next...
...unilaterally and immediately withdraw all forces from Southeast Asia," that the U.S. halt "its systematic oppression of political dissidents and release all political prisoners," and that "universities immediately end defense research, ROTC, counter-insurgency research, and all other such programs." A Boston-wide rally drew 40,000 to Soldiers Field and 11 of Harvard's most prominent professors trooped--along with hordes of students and others--to Washington to lobby aaginst...