Word: institutionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Harvard University: One of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world, Harvard decided to get involved in the power business. The institution that has financed the power plant stands to lose a lot of money if it isn't put into operation.
Many junior faculty at Harvard and elsewhere succumb to the same pressures as Klein's students, in search not of grades but of the elusive academic grail, tenure. Klein insists it's not a trap she will let herself fall into; ask her about her chances for tenure, and she...
Or, more accurately, an open checkbook. One of the most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984...
Rosovsky, on the other hand, has dramatic plans for the institution that carries out the somewhat anachronistic task of training teachers and researchers for jobs that no longer exist. His request for written comments by Faculty members on his several models for the GSAS of the future was supposed to...
In fact, Huggins adds, that may have been the overriding factor in his final decision to come. "I felt if I said no, what as I discerned as a genuine, forthright commitment by the president and the dean would've gone by the boards, that it really would've taken...