Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Marie Trottier, the recently-hired coordinator of the Program for Persons with Disabilities, says she too hopes there will be a more comprehensive policy in the future, and that she can shape...
There are so many errors in the sociologists' letters to The Crimson that it is tempting to dwell on them. Instead of wearing out the patience of readers, let me share my impressions of Social Studies--as a sociologist who knows something about it. Its program is outstanding, and its reputation in this community richly deserved. Different social science departments have their specialisms, of course, but social inquiry as a whole benefits from (and in my opinion needs) attempts to think generally, to investigate areas that fall between different paradigms of inquiry...
...scholars who founded this program--amongst them Stanley Hoffmann, Barrington Moore and Michael Walzer--have achieved their stature in this way; they were and are no fools. The work they do and which is now done in Social Studies is not being done by the Sociology Department in any way at all-my British reserves of irony are woefully insufficient to handle such a fantasy...
Three particular points deserve emphasis. Undergraduates have a challenging and exciting education in this program. One would be tempted to reassure such students, but for the fact that applications are increasing! Secondly, it needs to be clearly stated that Sociology graduate students who have worked in Social Studies have rendered superb service, which is much appreciated; my own impression is that their work has benefited quite as much...
...dean is saying that Harvard has to offer more hope for internal promotions," Patterson said, referring to Spence's program to encourage departments to tenure their junior faculty. "How can anyone take that seriously,"he added...