academic freedom

Dear Colleagues,

Friends:

Below is an excerpt from a story that appeared in the New York Times today about the annual convention of the American Historical Association with a link to the online edition.

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Rachel Helps, Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), November 1, 2022.

Crosspost from H-Asia

Online Book Launch: New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia 

Discussion published by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham on Tuesday, November 8, 202

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James M. Lang, How to Cope With Presentation Anxiety, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2022.

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Open Access

Ann Michael, Tim Vines, Robert Harington, David Crotty, Tao Tao, and Alison Mudditt, Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part I, The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), Aug. 30, 2022.

Dear colleagues,

My commentary "Researching China: How Germany tackles the issues" has just been published on the blog of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).

It can be accessed here: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2022/04/05/researching-china-how-germany-tackles-the-issues/

What follows is a short summary.

In Germany a public debate about the current state of China studies has erupted. 

This is very alarming news: An academic journal editor was overruled by the journal's owner-publisher, Wiley, i

Here are two artciles about aspects of growing controveries in academia.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/decolonizing-academy