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I'm sorry, I couldn't get any further after reading the bit about an
academic getting a six figure salary. I just broke down and cried...
Vincent
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> From: Wade T.Smith
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> We spoke, too briefly, here, about the law.
>
> - Wade
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> Harvard educator seeks renewal at NYU
>
> By Patrick Healy, Globe Staff, 3/8/2001
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/067/nation/Harvard_educator_seeks_renewa
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> _at_NYUP.shtml
>
> In her cozy new Greenwich Village apartment, overlooking a tiny garden
> covered with snow, Carol Gilligan has just written a book called ''The
> Birth of Pleasure.'' It's about love, myths, and, more than anything
> she's ever done, herself.
>
> At 64, the renowned social psychologist has found a new life: a return to
> ''the edge'' of critical thinking about gender, two decades after her
> landmark text, ''In A Different Voice,'' convinced many people that
> societal norms were stifling many girls and young women from speaking
> their minds.
>
> This rebirth, as Gilligan's friends call it, has come with an
> extraordinary change. She is leaving Harvard University after 34 years of
> teaching for New York University and, in particular, its red-hot law
> school.
>
> It wasn't NYU's six-figure salary or the West Village apartment or $8,000
> legal research budget or law school office that lured her (though they
> helped). Rather, during a visiting professorship in 1998-99 and in her
> ongoing part-time work at NYU, Gilligan found an experience that she says
> Harvard hasn't matched: professors teaching together, weaving theater and
> literature and law, and creating a fresh curriculum out of their books
> and personal experiences.
>
> ''When you fall into questions on the edge of your own work, with people
> in other disciplines - this is something I had not particularly expected,
> and the joy was incredible,'' Gilligan said in an interview this week.
>
> Harvard, in turn, has felt increasingly familiar and complacent to her,
> Gilligan's friends say. Her research on gender and education has seemed
> more and more narrow. And she thinks she is misunderstood by those in
> Cambridge who say she should fully reveal and explain the data girding
> her work.
>
> ''I think she feels bitter at Harvard, but it's being covered over,''
> said David Richards, an NYU law professor who teaches ''Gender Issues in
> Culture, Law, and Psychology'' jointly with Gilligan. ''Harvard helped
> give her a stature and a standing, and she knows that.''
>
> Gilligan's departure is a huge loss for the Harvard Graduate School of
> Education, which fought hard to keep her, trying but failing to secure a
> university professorship there for her.
>
> The move, moreover, came at an extraordinary moment: NYU confirmed the
> hire last Friday, the same day Harvard announced a $12.5 million gift
> from actress Jane Fonda, who gave the money to create a center for gender
> studies and education - in Gilligan's honor.
>
> Gilligan's work to secure the gift from Fonda, and her awakening to an
> excitement about New York, are closely entwined: Gilligan said she was
> upfront with Fonda about her NYU plans, and saw the gift as a way to
> ensure her legacy at Harvard and move to Manhattan - where she spent her
> childhood - and to a law school in a city where her father was a
> litigator.
>
> ''What's happening to Carol is happening to a lot of women today - we're
> marrying our personal and professional lives,'' said Margot Stern Strom,
> a close friend of Gilligan's who runs the Harvard Facing History Project
> with her.
>
> Gilligan's forthcoming book is her most personal, she said, mixing her
> memories and dream analysis with observations about pleasure and love in
> different cultures. At NYU, she said she wants to go beyond psychology
> research and create a new curriculum that weaves literature, culture, and
> civic life, as well as the gender work she has done before.
>
> ''She became increasingly convinced that psychology had come to a dead
> end, had lost its momentum,'' said NYU's Richards. ''She felt the need to
> move into other fields.''
>
> In the NYU class she and Richards teach, some students write plays as
> seminar papers. They also perform scenes written by Shakespeare,
> Tennessee Williams, and the Greeks, to explore how people in varied
> positions of power, or speaking with different emotions, can ''be in
> dialogue with one another.''
>
> ''At this historic moment, the voices of so many people who were not part
> of the conversation are now coming into it,'' Gilligan said. ''I saw my
> colleagues at the law school picking up the inner world of voice and
> narrative in society.''
>
> Richards said one draw for Gilligan at NYU is working with young women
> training to be lawyers.
>
> ''When we start class, students speak about how law school is crushing
> them, how they're losing their voice, that it's a dreadful place and they
> can't speak,'' said Richards. ''Carol sees these young women as having
> strength for resistance that many men don't have, and wants to bring them
> to a greater self-consciousness.''
>
> Gilligan said she did not try to seek a similar post at Harvard Law
> School. She said she could have tried to kindle similar connections at
> Harvard, but that her moorings in the Education School and psychology
> work would have made that difficult.
>
> ''I just walked into a very alive intellectual situation and
> collegialship at NYU, and I was really very happy,'' she said.
>
> Gilligan's work has been controversial with critics of feminism and
> scholars of male childhood. Some professors at Harvard Law School said
> NYU's nontraditional approaches to legal training are less in vogue in
> Cambridge, and they doubt Harvard Law would have made as broad an opening
> for Gilligan.
>
> ''There's nothing going on at Harvard Law School of the sort that's going
> on at NYU Law,'' said one Harvard law professor.
>
> Gilligan is only the latest high-profile loss for Harvard. NYU Law School
> just hired away a top professor at Harvard Law, Joseph Weiler. And Boston
> College has given a tenured post to a popular women's studies instructor
> at Harvard, Juliet Schor. Her departure angered several students who said
> Harvard hasn't done a good job recruiting and tenuring female faculty
> members. Schor left in part because her husband works at BC.
>
> Ironically, it was the Fonda gift as much as anything that opened the
> door for Gilligan to NYU, which has been trying to recruit her for years.
> ''I was waiting to feel that I could move on without jeopardizing work
> that I felt an enormous commitment to,'' she said.
>
> Harvard responded to NYU's offer with what Gilligan said was a
> ''generous'' counteroffer, holding out much more money as well as more
> sabbatical time.
>
> Jerome Murphy, dean of the Graduate School of Education, also asked
> Harvard president Neil Rudenstine about a university professorship for
> Gilligan, which would have allowed her to teach in various schools, the
> opportunity that most excites her about NYU. ''To the best of my
> knowledge there were none available,'' Murphy said. (Harvard's governing
> board now appoints about 20 faculty members to university professorships,
> at the recommendation of the president.)
>
> For Gilligan, NYU may provide a fellowship or position for her husband,
> Jim, and the couple might teach together in the future. They have a home
> in the Berkshires, as well as one in Brookline, and she will start at NYU
> full-time in 2002, the same year her new book is expected to be published.
>
> She will also play an advisory role for the Fonda-inspired Harvard Center
> on Gender and Education. But she is clear that she has no doubts about
> leaving - she likes where she's heading.
>
> ''I'm again moving to where the edge is for me,'' she said.
>
> Patrick Healy's e-mail address is phealy@globe.com.
>
> This story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 3/8/2001. © Copyright
> 2001 Globe Newspaper Company.
>
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