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… students. The College has thus threatened academic freedom; its new policies raise the specter of repression within the University community. The Women's Studies Program underwent a standard academic review…
… in the fall of 1979. The review testified to the program's distin- ction, and in fact declared that the graduate' student teaching assistants are "of the highest quality," "have a sincere and…
…, that the programs should change over to faculty-taught courses, and that graduate students should be shifted to administrative duties around the program's publication series, Occasional Papers in Women…
… has been built on graduate student participation because there were no faculty members available to teach in the program. The dearth of interested and com- mitted scholars is a manifestation of the per…
…'s review committee, stated that the graduate students in Women's Studies "guaranteed its calibre as a truly innovative field o fendeavor, wherein successful teaching is immediately associated with new and…
… scholarship' has developed in ways that will be lost if we return to 'women in history,' 'women in sociology,' and so. on. Historians interested in women (and students interested in women's history) have…
… interdepartmental crevices. FURTHERMORE, graduate students are more likely to be in touch with emerging social tendencies than are established faculty. Sup- pression of interdisciplinary programs and of graduate…