A Critical Review of the University Restructuring Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-248
Author(s):  
Jong-seong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
University Restructuring ◽  
The University

A critical review of the paper ‘The earliest datable noctilucent cloud observation (Parma, Italy, AD 1840)’

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1220-1221
Author(s):  
Peter Dalin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Noctilucent Clouds ◽  
Noctilucent Cloud ◽  
The University

In the present critical review, my aim is to address serious calculation mistakes made by the authors. I do not want to review their interpretation of a given observation on 18 June 1840 made by Antonio Colla, who was a professor of Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Parma. There is no sense interpreting Colla’s observation since the basic astronomical calculations have been made incorrectly by the authors Chiara Bertolin and Fernando Domínguez-Castro. Summarizing, in theory and practice, astronomer Antonio Colla could not have observed noctilucent clouds (NLC) at Parma on 18 June 1840. That is why the conclusions of the present paper are not valid.

scholarly journals ‘Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo McCann ◽  
Edward Granter ◽  
Paula Hyde ◽  
Jeremy Aroles
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Senior Leaders ◽  
Managerial Power ◽  
University Restructuring ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

University governance is becoming increasingly autocratic as marketization intensifies. Far from the classical ideal of a professional collegium run according to academic norms, today’s universities feature corporate cultures and senior leadership teams disconnected from both staff and students, and intolerant of dissenting views. This is not a completely new phenomenon. In 1960s America, senior leaders developed a technocratic and managerialist model of the university, in keeping with theories around the ‘convergence’ of socio-economic systems towards a pluralist ‘industrial society’. This administrative-managerial vision was opposed by radical students, triggering punitive responses that reflected how universities’ control measures were at the time mostly aimed at students. Today, their primary target is academics. Informed by Critical Theory and based on an autoethnographic account of a university restructuring programme, we argue that the direction of convergence in universities has not been towards liberal, pluralist, democracy but towards neo-Stalinist organizing principles. Performance measurements – ‘targets and terror’ – are powerful mechanisms for the expansion of managerial power or, in Marcuse’s words, ‘total administration’. Total administration in the contemporary university damages teaching, learning, workplace democracy and freedom of speech on campus, suggesting that the critique of university autocracy by 1960s students and scholars remains highly relevant.

scholarly journals A Critical Review of the Recent Improvements in Minimizing Nuclear Waste by Innovative Gas-Cooled Reactors

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bomboni ◽  
N. Cerullo ◽  
G. Lomonaco ◽  
V. Romanello
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Simplified Models ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
Fuel Cycles ◽  
Multiple Recycling ◽  
High Level ◽  
Coupling Current ◽  
The University

This paper presents a critical review of the recent improvements in minimizing nuclear waste in terms of quantities, long-term activities, and radiotoxicities by innovative GCRs, with particular emphasis to the results obtained at the University of Pisa. Regarding these last items, in the frame of some EU projects (GCFR, PUMA, and RAPHAEL), we analyzed symbiotic fuel cycles coupling current LWRs with HTRs, finally closing the cycle by GCFRs. Particularly, we analyzed fertile-free and Pu-Th-based fuel in HTR: we improved plutonium exploitation also by optimizing Pu/Th ratios in the fuel loaded in an HTR. Then, we chose GCFRs to burn residual MA. We have started the calculations on simplified models, but we ended them using more “realistic” models of the reactors. In addition, we have added the GCFR multiple recycling option usingkeffcalculations for all the reactors. As a conclusion, we can state that, coupling HTR with GCFR, the geological disposal issues concerning high-level radiotoxicity of MA can be considerably reduced.

scholarly journals The Human Experience of Crooked Data

Media-N ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Carrie Ida Edinger
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The University

A critical review of Crooked Data: (Mis) Communication in Contemporary Art, an exhibition at the Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, February 9 - May 5, 2017.

Five Years of Stereotactic Radiosurgery at the University of Tübingen - A Critical Review of the Method

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (04) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Duffner ◽  
G. Becker ◽  
R. Boldt ◽  
K. Voigt ◽  
R. Klier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stereotactic Radiosurgery ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The University
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