“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 1 Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: Where do competing models of academic freedom come from? Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash   The debate on academic freedom reflects the close affinity between academic freedom and...
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. Irina Dezhina   Photo: “And I can say that it has only gotten worse.” Photo by Soviet...
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...
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 1 Katja Ivanović “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” Virgil, The Aeneid Photo: These gifts are difficult to track and do not fall under the category of corruption, as there is no...