Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We foster being a human environment," says Martin. "Obviously, we've got a pluralistic environment, and we foster awareness of that. Issues of social justice are part of the atmosphere of the institution."
I would argue that there are at least four reasons why faculty diversity is in the interest of the Harvard community. First, the fact that the faculty is the least diverse of all groups within an educational institution speaks volumes about what it values in teaching and research. Ideas of...
Second, the effect of a more diverse community of scholars upon the academic life of the institution would be important, in that it would be yet another enriching ingredient for the enterprises of administration, teaching, learning and research. How is it possible for truly liberally educated individuals to decide a...
EVEN after making these arguments, I am certainly not sanguine--especially after all the obfuscation on this issue--that sound arguments will move the faculty to a more positive sense of its mission. Rather, in any institution the techniques of maintaining viability reside in an early recognition of the danger...
THE first time I ever saw Bok was during the spring of my freshperson year, shortly after the shanties had been constructed. He had emerged from his Massachusetts Hall bunker to join a dialogue on divestment organized by student activists. The pro-divestment position was clear: Harvard, as an institution...