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Indeed, its programs currently reach more than 100,000 students each year, including more than 1,600 university students who receive scholarships.
This is no small matter: Yale and other American universities receive millions of federal dollars annually – money that would be jeopardized if the university was found to tolerate an unequal learning environment.
Indeed, in the course of trying to report to the university in 2004 what had happened to me in 1983, I found the same pattern of stonewalling victims and defending perpetrators.
Worse still, I discovered that the university and its lawyers used the sexual harassment “grievance procedure” as a screen to protect the institution, its harassers, and even its rapists, rather than as a means to investigate incidents of abuse.
But I could do nothing, because the women chose to remain anonymous, and because the university treated each case as top secret.
Alleged perpetrators were free to teach in a new university – where more young women (and in some cases, young men) would become their prey.
Like virtually every private university in the United States, Yale has relied on “privacy” to keep these incidents under wraps, so that incoming women (and men) have no idea who among the faculty or students is dangerous; which fraternity is a site of repeated harassment or worse; and when to keep the door open on a student-teacher meeting.
As a result, serious crimes can be swept under the rug – at Yale and at every other private US university I have ever visited (public universities are less free to conceal crime data) – in the guise of “protecting the victims.”
The Ultimate ComputerThe personal computer on my desktop is hundreds of times as fast, and has thousands of times as much memory, as the mainframe computer that served my entire university when I was a student.
One could have predicted in advance of the recent boom how the 12 large OECD economies would rank simply by knowing the percentage of the population with a university degree, the OECD index of barriers to entrepreneurs, and the breadth of the stock exchange (measured by the market value of outstanding shares relative to GDP years before the boom).
A cross-country analysis estimates that university education is good for all three elements of economic performance: the employment rate (relative to the working-age population), the unemployment rate (relative to labor force), and labor productivity too.
The Bologne protocol, which aims at harmonizing university training throughout Europe, could prove useful here.
Having gone to university in western countries, we were inspired by the American system of check and balances.
The Magna Charta is the world’s most visible statement of principles for the promotion and protection of university autonomy.
In this sense, the heart of the university is located in its curriculum committee, as the mechanism by which research is regularly translated into teaching, generating new cycles of creative destruction.
Efficiency-minded knowledge managers nowadays say that the very idea of the university as a place where the same people produce and distribute knowledge is a throwback to the Middle Ages.
In the case of the university, this means allowing access to knowledge to students who lack the intellectual, political, or financial resources that might have enabled them to produce it for themselves.
The mosquito nets ubiquitous in my childhood disappeared from urban houses by the time I was at university in the late 1950s.
With few foreigners watching Russian films, and only one Russian university ranked in the global top 100, Russia has few options for regaining its appeal.
As long as young people direct their efforts accordingly, they can acquire these skills in virtually any of the major courses of university study.
The Sorbonne’s students, supporting those from Nanterre, occupy their ancient university.
Nineteen sixty-eight is going global, fueled by doubt among university youth about the world that is being built.
In Paris, a tired and awkward university rector asks the police to clear protesters from the Sorbonne.
America remains first in total R&D expenditure, first in university rankings, first in Nobel prizes, and first on indices of entrepreneurship.
That means investing in teacher training, improved learning outcomes, retention of girls in STEM courses, supporting research earlier in university, helping young researchers through so-called sandwich programs, establishing university-private sector labs on campus, and more.
As for China’s backward educational system, the large number of university graduates is offset by their overall sub-standard quality.
Soroush supported Iran's 1979 revolution and took an active role in revising university curricula in the revolution's early years.
A comedian normally gets away with things that a politician, a university president, or a judge cannot.
The European Union is funding a three-year e-learning course to prepare 3,100 Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon for university.
And the American nonprofit The University of the People has offered 10,000 Syrian refugees a tutor-supported online university education.
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