Word: institutionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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In this phrase, Rosovsky invokes the two biggest stumbling blocks to educational reform at Harvard. First, the main agitators for change are invariably students, each of whom attends Harvard for a fraction of its 350-year history. In what amounts to little more than an overnight stay in Cambridge, no...
Second, in contrast to the flux of students, Harvard and its reputation have stood firm over the centuries. As deeply entrenched as Widener Library is a way of thinking hostile to educational reform: Harvard's collective ego, a chest-thumping, self-assertiveness that blinds the school's faculty and administration...
If the goals are high-minded, the bottom line, in Bok's own words, is not. If the fund drive fails, he warns his audience, "it is likely that the quality of the institution will gradually diminish under the weight of economic pressures.
Arthur G. Powell confronted the legacy of Eliot and his predecessors while serving as associate dean of the Ed School from 1968 to 1976. In his history of the institution, The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority, Powell chronicles the metamorphosis of the "Division of Education," which...
Yet, leaders of the Ed School have always claimed that their institution is an innovator, not merely an expensive chalkboard on which theorists and practitioners compete for space.