Sentences with phrase «virtues of academic life»

The author focuses her attention and dismay on the relentless growth in the commercialization of education and scholarship within universities, the resultant diminishment of the intellectual commons, and the elimination or blurring of the boundaries that separate the distinct values and virtues of academic life from those of the commercial sector.

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A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....
Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.
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