"There’s no “crisis in higher education”; there’s just a crisis of New York Times writers with daddy issues and anxiety over what the end of legacy admissions could mean for their children’s college prospects."
Another Black Woman in Trouble at Harvard, Nikki Haley Saying Racist Stuff ...again, Jason Whitlock Doesn't Have A Clue, and More Insane Political News
Harvard Medical School affiliate, retracts, corrects research after sleuthing from 32-year-old Welsh blogger Sholto David
“They want science to be and do better,” Oransky said. “And they are frustrated by how uninterested most people in academia — and certainly in publishing — are in correcting the record.” They’re also concerned about the erosion of public trust in science."
Claudine Gay Always Knew She’d Have a Totally Nasty, Shitty Time As President of #Harvard
"“So why did Gay take the job in the first place if she knew that it would be a stressful, distressful, & challenging one where she was sure to encounter the worst side of human nature?” Well, because it was about time. Like me, like many of us #Black#women, she wasn’t going to give up that opportunity because of fear.
#Harvard medical school employed its first female faculty member in 1919. Alice Hamilton went there from Jane Addams' Hull-House, where she had been a key contributor to their enormous and varied reform efforts.
When Hamilton retired from Harvard in 1935, it would be another 10 yrs before women were allowed enroll as students, ie 26 yrs after they recognized a woman as bright enough to teach there. The gap between bureaucracy and intelligent action as ever been vast.