Curt Rice, Guardian Higher Education Network: "Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a 'pay to say' system for the rich? And will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even further towards the natural sciences? I don't think so. But it took me a while to get there."
Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan muss sich gegen neue Plagiatsvorwürfe bei ihrer Doktorarbeit verteidigen. Der Gründer der Internet-Plattform VroniPlag, Martin Heidingsfelder, wirft der CDU-Politikerin vor, an deutlich mehr Stellen abgeschrieben zu haben als bislang bekannt. „Auf über 33 Prozent der Seiten finden sich Plagiate bei Frau Schavan“, sagte der Erlanger Plagiatsexperte der „Augsburger Allgemeinen“ (Mittwochausgabe) nach einer Überprüfung der 32 Jahre alten Doktorarbeit.
Meroe Park (SFS’89), former executive director of the CIA, will provide faculty, students and university leaders with insights and perspectives as the university’s newest Distinguished Executive-in-Residence.
The Georgetown alumna also served as the acting CIA director for a short time in 2017, maintaining the agency’s operations and providing a smooth transition for Mike Pompeo to take the helm as the new director.
As Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at Georgetown, she will provide faculty, students and university leaders with insights and perspectives based on her lengthy career in public service.
Former FBI director Robert Mueller and former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have held past residencies.
Park, a 27-year veteran of the agency, served in the position from 2013 to 2017 – acting as the agency’s chief operating officer.
In that role, she managed the day-to-day operations of the agency, guided the organization through its largest organizational and cultural change, modernized the agency’s information technology systems and helped revamp the CIA’s talent management and development system.
Palestine solidarity action is holding firm and spreading despite the brutal efforts of university authorities to suppress them, reports Des Freedman The morning after hundreds of New York City cops smashed up the pro-Palestinian occupation on the campus of Columbia University, the city’s mayor Eric Adams warned that ‘There is a movement to radicalize young people and I’m not going to wait until it’s done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it’.
SvD 19 maj "det är nu vi väljer framtiden för svensk högre utbildning: Ska vi ha kvar utbildningar i Sverige och då i vilken form? " massive open online course Mooc:s öppnar dock stora möjligheter för Sverige. För att förverkliga dem krävs en engagerad lärarkår. Fem debattörer från universitetsvärlden - Det omvända klassrummet Mooc-material definierar en kurs som följs av diskussion och problemlösning i klassrummet - Det avskaffade klassrummet. Utbildning och inlärning sker självständigt via nätet. - Mooc College. Fria högskolor etableras som fullt ut bygger på mooc:s.
March 16, 2021
The agreement is the largest of its kind in North America to date, bringing together UC, which generates nearly 10 percent of all U.S. research output, and Elsevier, which disseminates about 17 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. The deal will double the number of articles made available through UC’s transformative open access agreements.
"a rundown of the top stories in international ed and Karin Fischer’s expert analysis. Delivered on Wednesdays. To read this newsletter as soon as it sends, sign up to receive it in your email inbox"
22.11.13 Med en veckas varsel samlades tusentals studenter runt om i Sverige för att protestera mot marknadsanpassningen av universitet och högskolor. Men medias rapportering kom mest att handla om hur rektorn på Lunds universitet avfärdade protesten.
TRNN, March 18, 2014 Prof. Tarik Cyril Amar [assistant professor of history at Columbia University, specializing in the contemporary history of Ukraine and Russia] and Prof. Nicolai Petro [professor of politics at the University of Rhode Island] say while the legalities of the Crimea referendum are dubious, the only way out of this crisis is to accept its results - Amar: "Putin's signature has actually been to reassert the state, and that means the siloviki, that means the people who actually have the power, the guns, the police, the military, last but not at all least, of course, the secret services against the oligarchs"
GigaOm 6 Aug 2012: Mendeley Institutional Edition, announced on Monday, is a new data dashboard that takes all of the activity on the site and presents it to universities as a way of gaining deeper insights into what their researchers are doing.