Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
When Academic Freedom Proves a One-Way Street
How sweeping should academic freedom be? Should someone who fought their own battle to preserve put conditions on what they would offer to others?
Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia
The question how to approach international academic cooperation with totalitarian China therefore leads to no easy answers. It nonetheless merits much greater attention than it has received so far.
What Was at Stake in University of Florida-Professor Testimony Dust-up?
When the University of Florida barred three of its professors from serving as paid experts in a Florida voting rights case it […]
Academic Collaboration with China is Important. But What’s the Price?
Totalitarian rule and the governance strategies it entails have direct implications for academic internationalization at Chinese universities and for their collaboration with universities abroad.
Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China
Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.
Watching China Watching Its Students Overseas
Where ideological issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan are concerned, Australian lecturers tell of how a vocal minority of international Chinese students are attempting to police teaching materials and class discussions.
Academic Freedom and University Relevance: A View from Australia
Academic freedom is widely championed as the foundation of a good university. It is seen as vital in speaking “truth to power” – […]
Report: Putting the Academic Freedom Index into Action
“Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action,” a report released by the Global Public Policy Institute in March, works as part of an effort to put the Academic Freedom Index (AFi) into action.
