Word: professorships
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Renowned scholar, star professor, ground-breaking feminist...Yalie? Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib should have known that great credentials and Yale residency do not mix well. Last Thursday, Benhabib announced she will leave her Harvard post as chair of the Committee on Social Studies for a professorship at Yale in a new political science department program. Benhabib, who is on sabbatical this semester, is one of Harvard's top political philosophers. She is widely recognized for her work in feminist theory, postmodernist theory, continental philosophy and political philosophy...
Lawrence University Professorship, a chair named after a Harvard Corporation member who played a crucial role in raising funds for the University in the 1920s...
Yale altered its admissions policy as part of a larger international initiative, including instituting a World Fellows Program for emerging leaders of other countries and a multidisciplinary international professorship...
...friend, you are in luck. Tormented by the harangues of critics of food that's just plain bad, the International Flight Catering Association has agreed to give $750,000 to Britain's University of Surrey to endow a professorship in the airline-catering business. The professor will teach the logistics of moving food from the farm to your tray table. It's not yet offered as a major, but keep your fingers crossed...
...labored for years in the backwaters of Serbian politics without making much of an impression. As a staunch anticommunist--and a zealous Serb nationalist who criticized past Yugoslav leaders for compromising Serb rights--he riled communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered modest and honest, a true believer in democracy and the rule of law who once translated the Federalist papers into Serbo-Croatian, he helped launch...