“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?

“Do Your Job and Don’t Try to Do Someone Else’s”?

Debates on models of academic freedom. Part 2 Dmitry Dubrovsky   In Part 1 of this article, we opened a conversation about competing models of academic freedom. In Part 2, we will discuss how Eurocentric the concept is and in what sense it may be considered universal....
When Was Teaching More Free?

When Was Teaching More Free?

When academic freedom is reduced to funding and accountability to funders, the Soviet period seems much more advantageous than the modern one in the eyes of Russian teachers. At the author’s request, the name is not published.   Photo: “And I can say that...
Gift-Giving in the Academic Environment

Gift-Giving in the Academic Environment

The specifics of networking to promote your people and those loyal to your cause. Part 2 Katja Ivanović Photo: Assistants, senior lecturers, associate professors, and professors at regional universities paid exorbitant salaries for celebrity specialists whom they drew...