Entry Number 01818<\/p>\n
21 JULY 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 The (Mis)perception of Excellence \u2013 20<\/p>\n
According to the student organization at the University of Freiburg, this has already started to happen. Shortly after being designated an \u201celite\u201d university, certain teaching functions were eliminated, because the professors involved with them rushed to join a new research center that was being set up. Courses were taken over by assistants at short notice. Those are examples of what can be found at many of the new \u201celite\u201d universities in Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Kirchgessner, Kilian, \u201cGefuehlte Exzellenz\u201d, Die Zeit, 02\/2008<\/p>\n *The Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 67 among the world\u2019s universities. That is, for example, sixteen places below Seoul National University of South Korea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the traditional study-abroad sites for Americans \u2014 Britain, Italy, Spain and France \u2014 still attract more students from the United States, the report found that China is now the fifth-most-popular destination.\u201d \u2013 The New York Times, 17 November 2008<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 21 JULI 2009, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 Gef\u00fchlte Exzellenz \u2013 20<\/p>\n \u00bbWir haben das schon jetzt gesehen\u00ab, hei\u00dft es bei der Studentenvertretung in Freiburg: \u00bbKurz nach der Ernennung zur Elite-Uni sind einige Lehrveranstaltungen gestrichen worden, weil sich die Professoren in die Vorbereitungen zu einem neuen Forschungszentrum gest\u00fcrzt haben.\u00ab Andere Kurse seien kurzerhand von Assistenten \u00fcbernommen worden. Solche Beispiele gibt es an vielen der neuen Exzellenzhochschulen.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: Kirchgessner, Kilian, \u201eGef\u00fchlte Exzellenz\u201d, Die Zeit, 02\/2008.<\/p>\n *Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, steht an der 67. Stelle in der Welt; d.h., zum Beispiel, 16 Stellen unter der Seoul National University von S\u00fcdkorea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201eUnter Amerikanern, die im Ausland studieren, sind die beliebtesten L\u00e4nder Gro\u00dfbritannien, Italien, Spanien, Frankreich und China.\u201c \u2013 The New York Times, 17.11.2008.<\/p>\n Und was ist mit Deutschland?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/ Entry Number 01818 21 JULY 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 The (Mis)perception of Excellence \u2013 20 According to the student organization at the University of Freiburg, this has already started to happen. Shortly after being designated an \u201celite\u201d university, certain teaching functions were eliminated, because the professors involved with them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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