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...National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has given $500,000 to the Kennedy School of Government to expand its "Uses of History" course and to help establish similar courses at public policy schools throughout the country...
...resignation today in a memo to the faculty of the Law School. Bell will return to Harvard this summer to teach a six-week seminar on "The Jurisprudence of Race" as part of a series of seminars for law teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH...
After Shils' broadside, National Endowment Chairman Joseph Duffey manfully defended Shils' freedom of speech, but emphasized that the scholar's opinions were not those of the NEH. Said he: "Personally, I support the principle that there are some limited, but critical, larger needs of a society from which a university is not immune." So does Shils. His list is a small and cautious one, though. Universities, he feels, are obliged to offer access to higher education for all who qualify, to provide training in those professions that have an intellectual component (such as law and medicine), to make expert advice...
...idea seemed cheerful enough to officials of the Government's National Endowment for the Humanities: the honor of giving the eighth annual Jefferson lectures, which NEH sponsors, would go to University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils, 68, a world-renowned expert on the role of intellectuals in advanced and developing societies. But Shils chose to compose a jeremiad attacking the Federal Government for interference with higher education. Last week the cries of anguished response stretched all the way back to Washington...
...seven-week program, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and grants from private corporations, will attempt to teach graduate students basic entrepreneurial skills, such as business language and corporate strategy...