Famous Quotes | The university is no longer a...
The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is big, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.
- Phyllis Dain
Attribution: Phyllis Dain (b. 1930), U.S. librarian, educator, and historian. Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment, by Mary Niles Maack and Joanne Passet, “Commentary” section (1994). From a speech given at the 1990 annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, in a program sponsored by the Gender Issues Special Interest Group. Dain was a faculty member at Columbia University.
Categories: Academia, And Historian, Educator, Librarian, Scholarship
