" Unmasking another white professor allegedly posing as a person of color

 Unmasking another white professor allegedly posing as a person of color

Unmasking another white professor allegedly posing as a person of color  Inside Higher Ed

"Arel Üniversitesi akademisyenlerinden imza kampanyası: Akademisyenin hakkını ver

 Arel Üniversitesi akademisyenlerinden imza kampanyası: Akademisyenin hakkını ver

dokuz8HABERby Bekir Güneş

İlerihaber.org’un haberine göre maaşlarının devlet üniversitelerinde veya diğer vakıf üniversitelerinde çalışan meslektaşlarından çok daha düşük olduğunu ifade eden Arel Üniversitesi akademisyenleri Change.org’da bir kampanya başlattı. Akademisyenler tarafından yapılan açıklamada ise vakıf üniversitelerinde akademisyen maaşlarının, devlet üniversitelerinden düşük olamayacağını belirten 7243 sayılı...

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" Türkiye'nin İlk Üniversite Radyosu İTÜ Radyosu 75 Yaşında

 Türkiye'nin İlk Üniversite Radyosu İTÜ Radyosu 75 Yaşında

İTÜ Haberler

Türkiye'nin ilk üniversite radyosu olan İTÜ Radyosu bu yıl 75. yaşını düzenlediği bir dizi etkinlikle kutluyor. Haber: İTÜ Kurumsal İletişim Ofisi.

"İlk 200'e Türkiye'den bir üniversite girdi

 İlk 200'e Türkiye'den bir üniversite girdi

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İlk 20 sırada sadece ABD, Kanada ve İngiltere'den üniversitelerin bulunduğu listede zirveyi Harvard Üniversitesi aldı. BOĞAZİÇİ İLK 200'DE Genel .

" Three of the Most Prestigious Scientific Journals Have Condemned Trump

Three of the Most Prestigious Scientific Journals Have Condemned Trump 

 

Slate Articlesby Jane C. Hu /

 

Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images, NEJM, AAAS, and Springer Nature.

With the U.S. presidential election less than a month away, three prestigious science publications have recently run editorials about what’s happening—or not happening—in Washington. Holden Thorp, the editor in chief at Science, detailed this administration’s coronavirus missteps in an editorial succinctly titled “Trump Lied About Science.” In another editorial, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine called our current political leaders’ response to COVID-19 “consistently inadequate,” and Nature’s editors have endorsed Joe Biden for president.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/science-nejm-nature-editorials-trump-covid19-response.html

Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That’s Normal

Wired Top Storiesby Alex Csiszar 

The notion that a split between science and politics must exist is largely a fiction—and one of relatively recent vintage.

COVID Is Emptying College Towns That Desperately Need Students

 

"2,500 academics worldwide sign petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal #FreeCihanErdal

 2,500 academics worldwide sign petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal

Duvar Englishby Neşe İdil /

Duvar English

Some 2,500 academics worldwide have signed a petition for Turkey to release Cihan Erdal, a PhD candidate and researcher at Carleton University in Canada and an LGBT activist, who was detained in Istanbul on Sept. 25.

HDP calls on gov’t to set up a civilian commission to investigate Kobane protests

Famed scholars Enzo Traverso, Judith Butler, Etienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Silvia Federici, Toni Negri and Wendy Brown are among the names who signed the petition titled “#FreeCihanErdal.”

ECREA Public statement on continuing pressures on universities in Hungary

 

Public statement on continuing pressures on universities in Hungary

ECREA is deeply concerned about continuing suppression of academic freedom and mounting pressures on autonomy of universities in Hungary.

The actions against universities and academics in Hungary begun in 2017 when the government of Prime Minister Victor Orban proposed legislation endangering the existence of Central European University in Budapest. As a result, the university had to relocate to Vienna (see ECREA public statement https://ecrea.eu/news/4850901). Similar pressures are presently exerted to remove gender studies programs in Hungary (see ECREA public statement https://www.ecrea.eu/news/6883754) and to change management of several universities.

The government of Prime Minister Orban is continuing with intimidation of academics and students, limiting the academic freedoms and implementing of the ongoing climate of fear. In September, the government moved to a forced takeover University of the Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest (SZFE), transferring the control of the public institution to a private foundation and depriving University bodies of their autonomous decision-making powers.

The university management and staff responded with resignations and strike while the students have been occupying the university premises since beginning of September to prevent the takeover of the university.

ECREA strongly condemns this and other actions against autonomy of universities in Hungary. ECREA strongly condemns the fact that a politically-motivated takeover of the University of the Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest (SZFE) has jeopardised the study process at the institution and is therefore directly damaging both students and lecturers. Suppression of intellectual freedoms, fundamental human rights and civic dialogue cannot lead to building of democratic, just and prosperous societies.

ECREA therefore calls upon Hungarian authorities to nullify the latest decree and refrain from further interventions which would limit academic freedoms and autonomy of universities and contribute to perpetuation of the climate of fear.

In the light of this, ECREA would also like to express its continuous support to our Hungarian members and colleagues and to students and lecturers of the University of the Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest (SZFE).

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Public statement on situation in Belarus: ongoing concerns about academic freedoms

Since the presidential elections on 9 August 2020, internationally reported as not adhering to fundamental democratic standards, Belarusian people have taken to the streets for peaceful demonstrations. They are calling for a rerun of the elections, release of protesters and political prisoners detained by Lukashenko’s regime and the end of state violence against the peaceful protest movement.

Since the start of the academic year on 1 September 2020, the state authorities have been exerting pressure on higher education institutions to curtail freedom of expression at universities. To date, several lecturers demanding respect for fundamental freedoms were fired, and peaceful protests of students were supressed. On a number of occasions groups of masked persons, typically wearing no national insignia or uniforms, were reported to be intimidating, beating and detaining students at or nearby university premises.

Despite politically-motivated action taken against academics and students, some rectors, who are appointed by the president, as well as a fraction of senior management of academic institutions, have been supporting Lukashenko’s regime. For example, on the 15th of September 2020, the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) approved new regulations prohibiting public expression of the staff and students’ civic position diverging from the state policies. On the 24th of September 2020 the rector of the Minsk State Linguistic University (MSLU) banned unauthorised protests on campus. Senior managers who pursue different policies or fail to supress protests on campuses are replaced, as it happened recently in cases of three out of four rectors of medical universities.

We call those responsible in senior management of Belarusian universities to stop the intimidation and repression on campuses, and to ensure the freedom of expression. We call on the Belarusian authorities to end the state violence against any members of universities and other academic institutions. We call for an immediate release of all those arrested arbitrarily and without legal basis. We declare our solidarity with all students, academics and researchers whose freedoms and wellbeing are endangered because they seek democratic change in Belarus.

Koen Leurs, Murat Akser and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

ECREA Public Statement Committee

"127 üniversiteye verilen toplam ödenek sadece Oxford Üniversitesi’nin bütçesine bile yaklaşamadı

 127 üniversiteye verilen toplam ödenek sadece Oxford Üniversitesi’nin bütçesine bile yaklaşamadı

dokuz8HABERby Esra Tokat 

Orta Vadeli Plan’a göre 127 devlet üniversitesine 2021 yılı için verilmesi öngörülen bütçe ödeneği 45,3 milyar lira oldu. En fazla ödeneğin 1 milyar 486 milyon 500 bin lirayla Ankara Üniversitesi’ne ayrılması planlandı. İstanbul Üniversitesi, 1 milyar 444 milyon 452 bin liralık bütçe ödeneğiyle Ankara Üniversitesi’nin ardından ikici sırada yer aldı. BirGün’den Mustafa Kömüş’ün haberine göre...

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"Tabu konularda araştırma engellenebiliyor'

 Tabu konularda araştırma engellenebiliyor'

DW.COM

'2016 yılında Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nde 'Kürt Sinemasında Ses' meselesine medya arkeolojik bir perspektiften bakan sanatsal araştırma projesine başladım.

"Fakülteyi kurmuşlar; öğrencisi, akademisyeni ya da binası yok

 Fakülteyi kurmuşlar; öğrencisi, akademisyeni ya da binası yok

dokuz8HABERby Kemal Yavuzel /

AKP’nin, “Her ile bir üniversite” politikasının faturası ağır oldu. Sayıştay denetimi ile Türkiye’deki çok sayıda üniversitenin bağlı birimlerinin öğrenci ya da akademisyeni bulunmadığı için atıl durumda olduğu açığa çıktı. Sayıları son yıllarda katlanarak artan ve eğitim kaliteleri ile tartışmalı hale gelen üniversiteler öğrenci bulamıyor. Sayıştay denetçileri, bazı üniversitelerde öğrenci ya da...

"Europe’s World-Lagging Universities Need Increased Funding

 Europe’s World-Lagging Universities Need Increased Funding

Project Syndicate by Luis Garicano 

Brexit has revealed a neglected truth that is highly inconvenient to European policymakers: the European Union’s remaining universities are nowhere to be found at the top of world rankings. Unfortunately, EU officials appear to have no interest in acknowledging the problem, much less addressing it