HeyJaredJohn Aubrey Douglass
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow - Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), and is a faculty member in the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California - Berkeley.
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Winners and Losers in the Emerging Neo-Academic Cold War (opens the original)
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Scientific and cultural cooperation and science diplomacy intended to address global challenges and build international partnerships are declining as global values, reflected in the politicization of research funding, shifting patterns and barriers to international co-authorship and transnational research, new limits on sharing data and licensing intellectual property rights, and restrictive visa policies directed at international students and faculty that are altering the flow of academic talen
Countervailing Forces to the Emerging Neo-Academic Cold War (opens the original)
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There are countervailing forces to the emerging neo-academic Cold War discussed in my recent article in Higher Education Policy and signs of hope for maintaining the values of open science, and for combating global challenges like climate change, future pandemics, and regulating AI.Most recently, Viktor Orbán’s election defeat means a new government in Hungary—one committed to European values, including support for academic freedom—that will reopen access to EU science funding and cooperatio
COVID and the Neo-Academic Cold War (opens the original)
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In the series of geopolitical traumas discussed in my recent article in Higher Education Policy, the COVID pandemic was a seminal event that shaped the evolution of the neo-academic Cold War.The pandemic’s most immediate impact included a sharp decline in transnational travel and the global flow of international students. The pandemic forced most higher education institutions to move toward online and off-campus learning, reducing traditional forms of interaction and disrupting student learning
Autocracies and the Neo-Academic Cold War (opens the original)
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A new Cold War is emerging and in turn a Neo-Academic Cold War that reflects emerging geopolitical rivalries. In a recent article in Higher Education Policy, I explored the evolution of the Neo-Academic Cold War as a story tied to a series of global traumas, including 9/11, a diaspora of war and economic refugees, the rise of neo-nationalism and illiberal democracies, the return of Russia and China as geopolitical adversaries to the U.S. and the European Union, the impact of Brexit, the COVID-19
SAT Wars and the University of California (opens the original)
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Opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and a growing number of faculty at the University of California (UC) are urging the university to reverse its 2020 decision to go “test blind”
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