大學怪現象

一位在西方大學任教的網友，看了我「教授一席話」文章，電郵回應介紹我看幾篇很有分量，由知名人士撰寫，批評近年大學教育畸形發展的文章，囑咐我轉載給大家看看。

首先是美國頂尖語言學／哲學家 Noam Chomsky。

Noam Chomsky: How America’s Great University System is being destroyed

In a Skype meeting with “a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA”, 4th February 2014, Chomsky explained how the American university system is being destroyed. He believes that universities managers are keen to keep their costs down. Faculty are increasingly hired on the Walmart model as temps.

他說: 
"when Alan Greenspan was testifying before Congress in 1997 on the marvels of the economy he was running, he said straight out that one of the bases for its economic success was imposing what he called “greater worker insecurity.” If workers are more insecure, that’s very “healthy” for the society, because if workers are insecure they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health."

"Because education is not their goal"

英國的 Alan Ryan教授 : As status-seeking managers multiply, they pervert the university's core mission

In his review of Benjamin Ginsberg's book "The Fall of the Faculty: the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters" (Oxford University Press, 2011) Alan Ryan (emeritus professor of political theory, University of Oxford) wrote: 

”Academic prestige comes from publishing, winning awards for excellent teaching, getting research grants and doing interesting research. Administrative prestige is measured by the number of "reports" an administrator has, which is to say, how many people report to them. Deans need associate deans, assistant deans, deanlets and a bevy of secretarial staff, less to achieve anything truly useful than to enhance their prestige - and their salaries, because one's pay goes up in proportion to the number of staff one directs.”

中國又如何？以下引述自浙江工商大學人文學院院長徐斌的 告別演講：

「為什麼不適應？我置身其中，越捲越深，深感高校行政化、權力化日趨嚴重，尤其在本科教學評估中的作為，公然全體造假，已喪失了最起碼的大學精神。

近年盛行的數字化考評、高校排名，讓各級像瘋了一樣抓項目、課題、報獎...

上級考什麼，下邊就幹什麼，行政權肆無忌憚地侵害教育權和學術權。」

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