中美大学课堂教学比较研究

以美国大学课堂教学的实际调研为背景,采用比较研究方法,借鉴美国大学课堂教学强调互动的成功经验,反思我国大学课堂教学存在的问题,归纳出我国大学课堂教学方法特点,总结出美国大学课堂教学的特点。在此基础上,较系统地对中美大学课堂教学进行对比分析,对我国大学课堂教学方法提出改进意见。     

大学生科技创新能力的团队培养模式探讨

总结国内外高校培养大学生科技创新能力的经验和方法,结合我国在校大学生实际,提出以制度为导向的课外创新团队为主要组织形式,建立开放型创新实验室和稳定的校外实践基地,以及加强实践环节的大学生科技创新能力的团队培养模式。     

我国大学排名研究综述

20世纪90年代以来,我国的大学排名活动开展得有声有色,在国内甚至国际有一定影响的大学排名已经有5家。大学排名活动已经成为我国高校评估领域一支不可忽视的力量。同时,对大学排名的研究工作也一直没有停止过。各种有关大学排名的研究文章也构成了高等教育研究中的一个小热点。对有关文章的各种观点从比较、作用、质疑和建议等四个方面进行理论梳理与归纳总结。     

高校基建档案工作刍议

基建工程档案是高校基本建设管理中一项重要的管理内容,在高校发展的建设管理中起着重要作用,对基建档案信息的收集和利用具有较大的促进作用。     

试论大学人文精神及其体系的构建

大学之主体乃教师与学生,纽带即为大学之本真文化和学术传承,而大学品质之内核则为大学人文精神。本文试从讨论现代大学人文精神入手,探讨如何在发展中实现当代大学人文精神体系之建构,寻找合乎大学本真意义之大学。     

我国高校科技期刊服务学科建设的现状与对策——基于全国229所高校办刊人员(主编、编辑)问卷调查

基于高校科技期刊办刊人问卷,调研高校科技期刊服务学科建设的总体现状,梳理科技期刊服务学科建设的举措和成效、困难和瓶颈,细致分析办刊人员对高校科技期刊如何更好服务学科建设的意见和建议,提出高校科技期刊与学科建设相互促进的策略和路径.采用分层随机抽样的方法,对229所中国高校期刊的办刊人员进行问卷调查,收集有效问卷402份...     

高校建立学科馆员制度探析

高校图书馆建立"学科馆员"制度是信息社会的必然趋势.本文通过介绍学科馆员的产生、发展,以及其服务宗旨,阐述了大学图书馆建立学科馆员制度的必要性.作者通过网上调查的方式,针对目前国内高校图书馆实行学科馆员制度的现状进行分析,希望高校图书馆形成以"学科"为中心的信息服务团队,更好地为高校整体教学、学科建设及重点科研方面的建设和发展发挥作用.     

What They Never Told Me About Being a Counseling Center Director

The author offers his perspectives about the experiences that are associated with being a college or university counseling center director.     

Education policy as an act of white supremacy: whiteness,critical race theory and education reform

The paper presents an empirical analysis of education policy in England that is informed by recent developments in US critical theory. In particular, I draw on ‘whiteness studies’ and the application of critical race theory (CRT). These perspectives offer a new and radical way of conceptualizing the role of racism in education. Although the US literature has paid little or no regard to issues outside North America, I argue that a similar understanding of racism (as a multifaceted, deeply embedded, often taken‐for‐granted aspect of power relations) lies at the heart of recent attempts to understand institutional racism in the UK. Having set out the conceptual terrain in the first half of the paper, I then apply this approach to recent changes in the English education system to reveal the central role accorded the defence (and extension) of race inequity. Finally, the paper touches on the question of racism and intentionality: although race inequity may not be a planned and deliberate goal of education policy neither is it accidental. The patterning of racial advantage and inequity is structured in domination and its continuation represents a form of tacit intentionality on the part of white powerholders and policy‐makers. It is in this sense that education policy is an act of white supremacy. Following others in the CRT tradition, therefore, the paper’s analysis concludes that the most dangerous form of ‘white supremacy’ is not the obvious and extreme fascistic posturing of small neo‐nazi groups, but rather the taken‐for‐granted routine privileging of white interests that goes unremarked in the political mainstream.     

Universities and government‐sponsored contract research: an Australian case study

Based on interviews, this article provides a case study of the experiences of academic staff at one Australian regional university in undertaking contract research projects sponsored by government departments and agencies. Academics from a surprisingly diverse range of disciplines are attracted to government‐sponsored research for a variety of reasons but particularly important is the financial support provided for research projects and postgraduate research students. Projects vary in scale, amounts of funding involved and purposes, with research activities covering a wide range of different activities including collection and analysis of data, provision of documentation on good practice, design of implementation strategies, evaluations, organisational reviews and policy recommendations. Overall, respondents are highly positive about their experiences, despite problems such as delays in payment of funds, inappropriately restricted timelines, frequent changes in senior agency personnel, unrealistic expectations, and restrictions in the use of data and publication of results. While many academics from different disciplines provide policy recommendations and carry out evaluative studies, few are well informed about the extent to which their work is actually utilised.