By Elizabeth Redden. Over past 18 months, the White House, federal agencies and Congress have all signaled concerns about theft of sensitive academic research by foreign competitors. Here's what's been happening. More...
20 avril 2019
20 avril 2019
McGill Drops 'Redmen' Team Name
By Elizabeth Redden. McGill University, in Montreal, will change the name of its men’s sports teams from the “Redmen” after protests from students, faculty and staff who argued that the name is discriminatory, CBC reported. "Today, 'Redmen' is widely acknowledged as an offensive term for indigenous peoples, as evidenced by major English dictionaries," Suzanne Fortier, the principal and vice chancellor of McGill, said in a statement. More...
20 avril 2019
Censorship in a China Studies Journal
By Elizabeth Redden. Scholars say they thought a journal was run on Western standards of free expression, but they found Chinese government control instead. More...
20 avril 2019
Report: BDS Co-Founder Barred From Entering U.S.
By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. is said to have denied entry to Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of movement to impose boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel, National Public Radio reported. Among other planned stops on his U.S. trip, Barghouti had planned to speak at Harvard and New York Universities. More...
20 avril 2019
The American Education Disadvantage?
By Elizabeth Redden. New research finds that graduates from U.S. universities are less likely to get a call back from Chinese employers than their counterparts with degrees from Chinese universities. More...
20 avril 2019
Indiana Closes Confucius Institute
By Elizabeth Redden. Indiana University is the latest university to announce the closure of its Confucius Institute. Indiana said closing the institute at its Indianapolis campus would ensure the continuation of IU’s Defense Department-funded Chinese Language Flagship program. More...
20 avril 2019
At Columbia, Questions Over Canceled Panel
By Elizabeth Redden. Columbia University abruptly called off a panel scheduled for this evening on the collapse of the rule in law in Turkey in what several panelists say was likely a result of pressure from the Turkish government. More...
20 avril 2019
Criticism of Artwork Over Portrayal of Taiwan
By Elizabeth Redden. The London School of Economics and Political Science is considering changing a sculpture of a globe after Mainland Chinese students protested that it did not depict Taiwan as part of China, The Telegraph reported. More...
20 avril 2019
Parcoursup : les vœux d'orientation des lycéens pour la rentrée 2019 - Note Flash n°8 - Avril 2019
En 2019, 651 000 lycéens scolarisés en France se sont inscrits sur Parcoursup et 96,3% d'entre eux ont confirmé au moins un vœu. Malgré la baisse du nombre d'élèves de terminale à la rentrée 2018 (-1,1 %), les lycéens, en particulier en séries technologiques et professionnelles, sont plus nombreux à confirmer un vœu cette année (+1,2% en moyenne, +4,4 % en série professionnelle, +3,7% en série technologique, -0,2% en série générale). En moyenne, un candidat a confirmé 9,0 vœux ou sous-voeu. Ce nombre moyen progresse depuis l'an dernier, notamment du fait de l'inclusion des Instituts de Formation en Soins Infirmiers (IFSI). En moyenne, la liste de vœux des lycéens qui candidatent se compose à 34% de vœux en licence et à 31% en BTS. Les formations sanitaires ou sociales ont été choisies par un candidat sur dix ; pour 13% d'entre eux, c'est l'unique filière demandée. Les IFSI regroupent 97% des vœux de cette filière. Deux-tiers des candidats ont fait au moins un vœu hors de leur académie de baccalauréat, soit 3 points de plus qu'en 2018. Ils concernent plus souvent les lycéens non boursiers (68%) que les lycéens boursiers (58%). Plus...
19 avril 2019
U of Notre Dame Pledges Help to Notre Dame in Paris
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday announced that it will donate $100,000 toward the reconstruction of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, which was damaged by a serious fire Monday.
The Reverend John I. Jenkins, president of the university, issued this statement: “We are deeply saddened to see the damage to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, a church whose exquisite Gothic architecture has for centuries raised hearts and minds to God. We join in prayer with the faithful of the cathedral and all of France as they begin the work of rebuilding. We are reminded of the words of our founder, Holy Cross Father Edward Sorin, a French immigrant, who, after a terrible fire destroyed our campus in 1879, said: 'Tomorrow we will begin again and build it bigger, and when it is built, we will put a gold dome on top with a golden statue of the Mother of God so that everyone who comes this way will know to whom we owe whatever great future this place has." More...
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