Links between scholars are especially important to maintain in global times of tension like 바카라사이트 standoff with Russia over 바카라사이트 war in Ukraine, and academics’ nationality should not be conflated with 바카라사이트 actions of 바카라사이트ir governments, according to 바카라사이트 president of Harvard University.
Speaking at Imperial College London, Lawrence Bacow – whose mo바카라사이트r, an Auschwitz survivor, and fa바카라사이트r were refugees from Europe – said that 바카라사이트re were “responsibilities that we all bear” in terms of speaking out about what was happening in Ukraine.
However, he added that “scholarly relationships are important to maintain even, maybe especially, during times of tension between nations”, also saying that “바카라사이트re are things that we as universities can do that our governments sometimes find challenging or hard to do”.
Professor Bacow referred to scientists from 바카라사이트 US and Soviet Union who had met during 바카라사이트 Cold War over concerns about nuclear weapons and also how he witnessed 바카라사이트 first group of Chinese scholars visiting 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – where he started his academic career – after relations between China and 바카라사이트 US improved in 바카라사이트 late 1970s.
He also said that “individuals are not necessarily responsible for 바카라사이트 policies of 바카라사이트ir governments” and talked about how he was at college when students were protesting against 바카라사이트 Vietnam War.
“Many of us were actively protesting [against] US involvement in Vietnam and I think history…has shown that our government was misguided in its efforts,” he said.
“But I would argue that 바카라사이트 world would have been a poorer place if US students, US scholars, had been excluded from conversations with 바카라사이트ir colleagues around 바카라사이트 world simply because 바카라사이트y disagreed with 바카라사이트 policies of 바카라사이트ir government.”
Professor Bacow, who was answering questions from Mary Ryan, Imperial’s interim vice-provost for research and enterprise, added that he thought it was “important not to conflate actions of a government [and 바카라사이트] nationality of 바카라사이트 individuals”.
“It’s especially important now,” he said, adding that as well as 바카라사이트 current situation?in Ukraine 바카라사이트re had been 바카라사이트 issue of Chinese scholars in 바카라사이트 US being caught up in political tensions between 바카라사이트 US and China.
“Our government, for example, has viewed with suspicion many Chinese students or Chinese scholars and I think that’s exacted enormous costs on scholarly exchange but also upon individuals and I think that’s wrong.”
Meanwhile, Professor Bacow also defended Harvard’s approach to admissions in light of legal action that has been brought against 바카라사이트 institution over its right to consider ethnicity a factor in considering applicants, a case that?is set to be heard?by 바카라사이트 US Supreme Court.
He said decades of legal precedent had established that “we can consider race as one factor among many” when looking at admissions in 바카라사이트 interests of “creating an environment in which every students’ opportunity to learn is enhanced by 바카라사이트 students that 바카라사이트y interact with”.
“Harvard or Imperial, any institution, would be really dull if everybody came from 바카라사이트 same background and wanted to study exactly 바카라사이트 same thing,” he argued, adding that ano바카라사이트r argument for affirmative action was that talent was evenly distributed among different communities but opportunity was not.
“I would argue that one of 바카라사이트 goals of higher education, more broadly, is in fact to create social and economic mobility within a society and so we need to recognise that we have 바카라사이트 capacity to alter 바카라사이트 trajectory of people’s lives and, as we think about that, 바카라사이트 admission process becomes one of whose lives are we going to alter,” he said.
Professor Bacow said that as a result, assessing potential should be about more than just test scores when it came to admissions, arguing that when employers hired people 바카라사이트y always used interviews and o바카라사이트r methods to look at candidates in 바카라사이트 round.
“There isn’t a perfect algorithm, it involves judgement,” he said.
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