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C) The professors are supposed to lead the university. Not the staff. Not the administrators. | C) The professors are supposed to lead the university. Not the staff. Not the administrators. | ||
D) Academics are not to be made precarious. | D) '''Academics are not to be made precarious'''. | ||
E) Even private elite universities are not really private. They are government funded to do the work that the market cannot. | E) Even private elite universities are not really private. They are government funded to do the work that the market cannot. | ||
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G) Graduate students are workers disguised as students. Foreign students are a foreign workforce. | G) Graduate students are workers disguised as students. Foreign students are a foreign workforce. | ||
H) Peer review is astonishingly recent and doesn’t work. | H) [[Peer Review|Peer review]] is astonishingly recent and doesn’t work. | ||
I) There is a quasi military function to research universities. They are part of National Security. Patriotism matters. | I) There is a quasi military function to research universities. They are part of National Security. Patriotism matters. | ||
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Machine learning leap to mind. This must be studied. | Machine learning leap to mind. This must be studied. | ||
L) The AAU, NSF, NAS etc. have all conspired against the welfare of American scientists and their families. Scientists need to be in the rooms where their fates are determined. | L) The AAU, [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]], [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] etc. have all conspired against the welfare of American scientists and their families. Scientists need to be in the rooms where their fates are determined. | ||
M) The difference between a research university and a college takes place almost exclusively within three groups of people: Professors, Graduate Students, and PostDocs/Researchers/Visitors. It often takes place in the afternoons. In seminars. In Labs. Etc. If you aren’t part of that world you aren’t part of the University. You are working or studying in BigEd but not involved with the university itself. | M) The difference between a research university and a college takes place almost exclusively within three groups of people: Professors, Graduate Students, and PostDocs/Researchers/Visitors. It often takes place in the afternoons. In seminars. In Labs. Etc. If you aren’t part of that world you aren’t part of the University. You are working or studying in BigEd but not involved with the university itself. | ||
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N) The great man/woman theory is basically correct in academics. Individual academicians change the world. | N) The great man/woman theory is basically correct in academics. Individual academicians change the world. | ||
O) The [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], Dole-Bayh, Eilberg, IMMACT90 etc laws need to be undone. The damage has been incalculable. | O) The [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole-Bayh]], [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg]], [[IMMACT90]] etc laws need to be undone. The damage has been incalculable. | ||
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|content=Full page ad in today’s WSJ taken out by leaders at @VanderbiltU and @WashU: | |||
Higher Education is at a Crossroads | |||
To university leadership, Board members and alumni: | |||
American higher education is at a crossroads. Ideological forces in and outside of campuses have pulled too many universities away from the core purpose, principles and values that made them America's great engines of learning, innovation and discovery, and the envy of the world. | |||
It is imperative that universities reaffirm and protect these core principles, strengthen their compact with the American people, and build on their unmatched capacity for teaching and innovation. They must do so not only because universities provide education that is transformative and research that improves everyday life—but also because their work is vital to American prosperity, competitiveness and national security. | |||
To this end, the leadership of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis recently took action at the board level to affirm our commitment to three indispensable principles that have long guided us: | |||
-Excellence in all aspects of our institutions' work, free of political litmus tests, grounded in a commitment to institutional neutrality in words and deeds; | |||
-Academic freedom and freedom of expression, to ensure unfettered inquiry, perspectives drawn from a wide range of human experience, and dialogue and debate that are free from censorship and disruption; and | |||
-An environment that fosters growth and development, including a commitment to minimizing financial and other barriers that impede students' access to our institutions or that hinder their academic success. | |||
Learn about the Vanderbilt-WashU Statement of Principles and efforts to restore confidence in America's great universities at HigherEdStatementofPrinciples dot com | |||
Bruce Evans</br> | |||
Chairman, Board of Trust</br> | |||
Vanderbilt University | |||
Andrew Bursky</br> | |||
Chair, Board of Trustees Washington University in St. Louis | |||
Daniel Diermeier</br> | |||
Chancellor</br> | |||
Vanderbilt University | |||
Andrew D. Martin</br> | |||
Chancellor</br> | |||
Washington University in St. Louis | |||
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