Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and a fellow at both the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Columbia University, and New York University. Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph....

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Today’s public universities are increasingly becoming like enterprising nonprofits. Partly because of financial reasons, they are turning to the private sector to boost or replace their traditional—predominantly public—sources of funding. University-industry alliances in research and development (R&D) are the result of deliberate strategies implemented by national and international (e.g., EU) g...

By almost any measure, U.S. research universities are consistently ranked among the best in the world. Beginning with the Morrill Act (Land Grant College Act) of 1862, federal and state policies have underscored the nation's commitment to building the finest research institutions. As such, U.S. universities have been the incubators of the nation's prosperity. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Compan...

Summarizing the incomplete results of the UNESCO Programme on ‘Good Practice in Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education’, the author asks that any assessment of the progress made in the area of gender-sensitive education take regional specificities into account. The regional environment is at best neutral and usually hostile to feminism in subtle ways. In spite of the lack of tradition an...

As a unique advantageous resource of colleges and universities, the effective combination alumni education is key to development universities. However, from actual situation, construction ecosystem in China at beginning stage, environment, system, carrier foundation not perfect, which extremely unfavorable for ecosystem. Therefore, based on above analysis, this paper starts with effectively pro...

The study combines fuzzy logic calculation method and bootstrap-DEA to explore the efficiency of National Quality Online Courses (NQOOCs) during new coronavirus epidemic. We choose Project 985 universities in China as our sample considering their academic influence. results show that value NQOOCs calculated by differs from measured traditional DEA. difference universities` ranking is more prono...