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	Academic elitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic environments only those individuals who have engaged in scholarship are deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do.
		Elitism is an illusion which masks an inherent human tendency to group by abilities and interests.
		Xi Lin, "The academic elite; Cynicism and disillusionment are protocol for UW elites".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academic_elitism (837 words)

	Elitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elitism may also be used to convey a less rational and more purely arrogant sense of entitlement to better treatment owing to wealth, social standing, etc.
		The term elitism is also used to refer to situations where a group of people who claim to possess high abilities or simply an in-group or cadre conspire to give themselves extra privileges at the expense of all other people.
		Elitism in the context of education is the practice of concentrating attention on or allocating funding to the students who rank highest in a particular field of endeavour, the other students being deemed less worthy of attention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elitism (473 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Academia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Closely related to academic publishing is the practice of bringing a number of intellectuals in a field to give talks on a paper they have written, often allowing for a wider audience to be exposed to their ideas.
		Academic societies served both as a forum to present and publish academic work, the role now served by academic publishing, and as a means to sponsor research and support academics, a role they still serve.
		The idea of an academic "job market" based on the balance of supply and demand in an open competitive arena is a fiction whose effect is to persuade the candidate that she simply lost out because of bad luck or lack of talent.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Academia (4082 words)

	Academic Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Those essays have emerged as Academic Duty, due to his awareness that the subject matter could be of use to a broader population.
		Academic misconduct is identified as misappropriation of academic credit, "illegitimate appropriation of the ideas or expressions of another" (p.
		The current structure of the academic institution was set at the end of the nineteenth century and in order to fulfill duty higher education must change with the rest of society.
	www.academicleadership.org /volume1/issue2/articles/arvidson.html (2235 words)

	Ivy League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although many of them receive funding from the federal or state governments to pursue research, only Cornell has state-supported academic units, termed statutory colleges, that are an integral part of the institution.
		Undergraduate enrollments among the Ivy League schools vary considerably, ranging from 4,078 at Dartmouth College to 13,700 at Cornell University, but they are generally larger than those of a traditional liberal arts college and smaller than those of a typical public state university.
		Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivy_League (3869 words)

	Wikinfo \| Elitism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Elitism is the belief that an elite - or small body of expert persons - are the only people whose views on a matter are to be taken seriously.
		The term 'elitist' is often used rather vaguely as a criticism of political and cultural attitudes thought to encourage the exclusion of large numbers of people from decision-making.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Elitism (158 words)

	Expert Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In specific fields, the definition of expert is well established by consensus and therefore it is not necessary for an individual to have a professional or academic qualification for them to be accepted as an expert.
		In this respect, a shepherd with 50 years of experience tending flocks would be widely recognized as having complete expertise in the use and training of sheep dogs and the care of sheep.
		Academic elitism arises when experts become convinced that only their opinion is useful, sometimes on matters beyond their personal expertise.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Expert (569 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| We should just raise the school leaving age to 22
		To suggest to those who are not cut out for even rudimentary academic life that university might not be the best place for them, is to consign them to non-person status.
		Academic elitism is not the same thing as social elitism.
		You get in on the basis of scarcely any academic aptitude whatsoever, often because they need to fill their quotas and get the fees in.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/10/02/do0205.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/10/02/ixportal.html (999 words)

	The Future of Academic Medicine: Five Scenarios to 2025
		Academic medicine was slow to recognize the rise of global media, "celebrity culture," and the use of public relations (or spin) to drive the political process, but once it did acknowledge how the world had changed, it responded dramatically.
		Academics became excited by this kind of work, not only because it was intellectually exciting and highly personally rewarding, but also because it was where prestige was most likely to be found.
		Academics, as well, often longed for the comforts of the developed world and sometimes became exhausted from their extensive traveling and the enormous problems of the developing world.
	www.milbank.org /reports/0507FiveFutures/0507FiveFutures.html (10458 words)

	ipedia.com: Academia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some sociologistss have divided, but not limited, academia into four basic historical types: ancient academia, early academia, academic societies and the modern university.
		In fact, many new fields of study have initially been conceived as interdisciplinary, and later become specialized disciplines in their own right (cognitive science is one recent example).
		Little, if any, research was published: publishing was expensive, and academics typically just circulated papers, letters, or notes of their work-in-process among a small group of their peers.
	www.ipedia.com /academia.html (3104 words)

	The Citizen News » The Makeup of the Democratic Party - Dunn
		Academic elites don't make up a very large group of people so claiming that this is why the Democratic party is a national party is disingenuous.
		Academic elites vote Democrat for a simple reason, because they think they are better than you.
		This is academic elitism at it's finest, and yes this is the group that teaches your children.
	www.thecitizen.biz /index.php?id=1624 (819 words)

	Academic Research Papers \| GENERAL EDUCATION
		Very.good study and discussion of the scarcity of educational resources and achievement in Appalachia, focusing on the problems of providing more and better education of all types in a region characterized by widespread poverty.
		Interesting original discussion of the role of education in society, focusing on the problem of maintaining human values in education or society, as both move towards technological complexity and political centralization.
		Basically a restatement in academic vocabulary of the fact that minority group children are often unprepared for, and hostile to, formal education.
	www.academicresearchpapers.com /catpages/catl08a-3.html (3346 words)

	PhiloPhysics.com - Author Keith Ferreira
		It is criminal to give better grades and extra credits to academically proficient students, and to deny them to students who have and are making creative contributions to the advancement of knowledge and culture, just because the students are not academically proficient.
		Academic elitism is a curse for most countries, and not a blessing, especially when most academically nonproficient geniuses are left out of the equation.
		Academically nonproficient geniuses, if you were to study and master my whole website, you will be able to intellectually whip the asses of all the professors in the world, intellectually speaking.
	www.philophysics.com /article.cfm?id=41&action=browse (564 words)

	Guardian \| The brain drain
		Accused either of elitism or "failure", universities are held responsible for the effects of earlier educational inequalities which ensure that 60% of private school leavers successfully head for a university degree, compared with only 16% of state school leavers.
		The effects of the cultural exclusion or demeaning representation of subordinated groups within traditional disciplinary frame works was mostly explored and taught first in the workers' education associations, polytechnics and just a few of the "redbrick" universities of the 1960s.
		Margaret Hodge and her mentors betray much that one might hope they would defend in their inconsistent confrontation with academic elitism.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4415248-103677,00.html (749 words)

	if:book: academic Archives
		Academic credibility continues to be informed by legacies of expertise that emphasize virtuoso performances of individual intellectual achievement (in the classroom, conference panel, or journal article) over communally built knowledge.
		This all bears significant resemblance to some of the ideas that emerged from a small academic blogging symposium that the Institute held last November to brainstorm ways to leverage scholarly blogging, and to encourage more professors to step out of the confines of the academy into the role of public intellectual.
		A small but growing group of academics have grasped this and are now in the process of inventing the future of their profession.
	www.futureofthebook.org /blog/archives/academic (12330 words)

	The Chronicle: 8/4/2006: A Cure for Academic Classism By Lisa Botshon
		The graduate students I met at dinner had learned a lesson commonly taught in graduate school: that people who teach at non-elite institutions are somehow unsuccessful, regardless of the quality of their work or sense of job satisfaction.
		Perhaps most important, they would forge professional relationships with other academics in their region that could result in new and sustained collaborations — intellectual, social, and political.
		Armed with new insight and empathy, visiting academics might feel more inspired to join forces and lobby local, state, and federal governments for increases in education financing.
	chronicle.com /free/v52/i48/48b00501.htm (1463 words)

	Academic elitism / Comment / Home - Morning Star
		However, when the payroll vote of ministers and others dependent on prime ministerial patronage is stripped away, it is clear that a majority of the rest have deep reservations.
		However, she resists the idea of copper-fastening this principle into her legislation, which can only arouse further the suspicions of her critics.
		The government must be told to abandon its plans to marketise state education through creating an elite layer of schools that will dominate in the market for brighter pupils and financial resources.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/free/comment/academic_elitism (485 words)

	Student to Professor: The Road to Tenure-Track
		For example, faculty positions for the 2000 - 2001 academic year were being advertised as early as September 1999, so applicants for faculty positions should job search a full year before they intend to start the position.
		In this all-day academic interview, you will typically give a seminar, talk to and be interviewed by the other professors in the department, be interviewed by a dean, and go to lunch or dinner with several faculty members.
		Since the academic job market is tight, it's a good idea to apply for some of these when you apply for tenure-track ones.
	www.princetonreview.com /grad/research/articles/life/tenure.asp (1125 words)

	The Good Fight: Open Access & Anti-elitism \| Academic Commons
		Michael Carroll, Law Professor at Villanova University School of Law, Creative Commons Board Member, and Blogger, turns up the heat in the on-going debate over pending federal legislation that would force open access to research supported with federal money.
		He suggests that publishers, not content to settle for the obvious economic arguments against open access, have begun working a less savory side of the street: an appeal to elitism.
		Academic Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.academiccommons.org /library/the-good-fight-open-access-anti-elitism (359 words)

	Purse Lip Square Jaw: MediaCommons
		From the Institute for the Future of the Book comes MediaCommons, a new network for media scholars to "write about mediation in a mediated environment" and bring their academic work to the internet commons.
		Because such discussions will take place in the open, and because the enormous time lags of the current modes of academic publishing will be greatly lessened, this ongoing discourse among authors and readers will no doubt result in the generation of many new ideas, leading to more exciting new work.
		Don't get me wrong - I believe that academic elitism is problematic and I think that traditional academic publishing is crippled by all sorts of internal and external constraints.
	www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2006/07/mediacommons.php (480 words)

	© Sirius Forensiks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These authors characterized academic debaters exhibiting "the behaviors of highly trained technically skilled public policy advocates" (184) and subsequently formulated an approach to debate through storytelling which they maintained would assist in facilitating frameworks which could enable the emergence of social leaders who have skills by which to "communicate with their constituents" (186).
		A more liberatory approach to academic debate would be to find the components within a critic's paradigm which are biases and engage her or him in the process of deconstruction in order to uncover those biases so that s/he may re-think them.
		Personal narratives value interaction among the individuals in an academic debate as human beings rather detached producers and processors of argument in order to reveal a more panoramic representation of a cultural context than meta(master)narrative counterparts which "claim to be scientific and objective" (Rosenau, 85).
	www.281.com /amulet/personalnarrationdebate.htm (4664 words)

	International University Bremen - First Commencement
		Of course, this was new to me, but professor after professor explained that, during the student protests of the 1960s, academic robes were associated with the rigidity of a university system unable or unwilling to adjust to the realities of a new era.
		Several faculty said to me that they believe Germany had “turned the corner” on the issue of elitism, having seen that, as in America, academic elitism is compatible with a democratic society.
		The initial contracts of the founding president and the first two academic deans are coming to a close, with the imminent prospect of having to hire new academic leaders who share IUB’s innovative commitment to an Anglo-American attitude toward higher education.
	www.rice.edu /sallyport/2004/winter2/features/IUB (3247 words)

	The Daily Targum - Pride in athletics, University
		Recruiting and academic scandals in various places throughout the nation have reinforced the belief that the two are incompatible.
		Both schools are known for academic excellence, and certainly neither school can be called a "sports factory." Duke University has been the presiding program in men's college basketball for 10 years or so now.
		While academic excellence is, without doubt, the greater achievement, it is very much an individual accomplishment.
	www.dailytargum.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=82a3312b-1324-47c5-995b-5a035254de21 (708 words)

	Jane Addams, Sociologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Each of these belief systems is intrinsic to the assumptions of sociology as it was practiced after World War I. Although she considered herself a sociologist, she wanted the profession to develop in a radically different direction than it did.
		Academic sociologists tend to rely heavily on academic publications, organizations, and institutions while overlooking applied sociology that is directed to nonacademic audiences, organizations, and institutions.
		Although many of these speeches were not academic, others were, and Addams' division between academic and everyday thought was dramatically different from that of her male academic colleagues.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Addams/ADDINT3.HTML (3148 words)

	University Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 43-month contract to establish a Centre of Excellence in Physiotherapy in the State of Kuwait is the largest grant ever awarded in Canada for a university-based health service.
		The university must change its image from one of social to academic elitism." In terms of curriculum, Western News (Sept. 5, 1996) reported that the university's three-year undergraduate program was criticized by at least one person for its alleged lack of academic rigor and focus.
		The net effect of the proposal is a 0.6 per cent compensation increase; the employer's proposal called for an overall compensation decrease of 3.55 per cent.
	www.mun.ca /marcomm/gazette/1996-97/Sept.19/m-uw.html (491 words)

	Writing Across the Curriculum
		As Robert Scholes avers in Textual Power, this tacit academic elitism devalues student texts while insisting that the writers of these texts come to course-specific environments readily armed with a finely tuned sense of academic discourse and all of what the specialist sees as essential to this perceived skill (4-7).
		Language is at the center of the academic curriculum: reading, writing, talking, and listening are modes through which people think and learn; it is through language-- verbal, numerical, visual, and musical--that students learn science, art, social studies, and the humanities.
		Although correct and cogent writing is the desired end of all academic discourse, all writers (ourselves included) must be allowed the freedom to "spin our tires" for awhile before we gain the traction that will compel us to guide both vehicle and content to an as yet defined destination.
	www.uwplatt.edu /~ciesield/wac.html (8413 words)

	A Portrait of the Ph.D as a Failure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Or, to change the image, the American Ph.D. is like one of James's highly intelligent, sensitive ambassadors who, when exposed to the complexities of social and moral reality, is unable or unwilling to adapt and takes refuge in a vision of moral rectitude (called standards in academia) and turns his face to the ivy-covered wall.
		The closer an educational program approaches the scholarly level of graduate education, the higher we value it, the further removed it is from this model, as in our general studies, evening session, adult education programs—and in the two-year colleges—the lower its educational status.
		This shift of emphasis is, I believe, long overdue throughout higher education, particularly in the many, many smaller four-year institutions where the goals and academic achievements of the students are different from the goals and achievements of students in the larger, name colleges.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n027/027004.htm (3520 words)

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