首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face:
When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face:
admin
2017-07-09
30
问题
When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who’ll become Oxford’s vice-chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in America.
Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, it’s gone global. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America.
The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’s budget. "We didn’t do any global consideration," says Patricia Hayes, the board’s chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since U. S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student number. The decline in government support has made funding-raising an increasing necessary ability among administrators and has hiring committees hungry for Americans.
In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen "a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position."
Of course, fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.
What do we learn about European universities from the passage?
选项
A、The tuitions they charge have been rising considerably.
B、Their operation is under strict government supervision.
C、They are strengthening their position by globalization.
D、Most of their revenues come from the government.
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据题干中的European universities定位在第四段首句:Many European universities,meanwhile,are still mostly dependent on government funding,即很多欧洲大学仍然主要依靠政府投入。因此可知学校的大部分资金来源于政府,故D项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/1Er7FFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Asayoungbondtrader,Buttonwoodwasgiventwopiecesofadvice,tradingrulesofthumb,ifyouwill:thatbadeconomicnewsi
Asayoungbondtrader,Buttonwoodwasgiventwopiecesofadvice,tradingrulesofthumb,ifyouwill:thatbadeconomicnewsi
【F1】WiththeextensionofdemocraticrightsinthefirsthalfofthenineteenthcenturyandtheensuingdeclineoftheFederalis
Studythefollowingsetofdrawingscarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1.describethesetofdrawings,interp
Blastinjuries,causedbythesortofexplosionsthatoccurredinBostonMonday,canbesonicofthemostdifficultandcomplex
ItishardtopinpointthedateatwhichAmericansdevelopedanIndian—orperhapsBritishfatalismaboutthedecliningqualityo
Atthemoment,mobileTVismostlystreamedover3Gnetworks.Butsendinganindividualdatastreamtoeachviewerisinefficien
WhenCongresspassedtheAgeDiscriminationinEmploymentAct,itgaveolderAmericansabroadrighttosuefordiscrimination.
Iwasstudyingphysicsincollege20yearsagothismonth,whentwochemistsattheUniversityofUtahpromisedthattheycould
Amidsttroublingreportsofournation’seconomicwoesandpressingnationalsecurityissues,onenewsstoryearlierthismonth
随机试题
窗体有命令按钮Command1和文本框Text1,对应的事件代码如下:PfivateSubCommandl_Click()Fori=1To4x=3Forj=1T03Fork=1To2
【背景资料】某二级公路位于平原区,路基宽10m,采用沥青混凝土路面,其中K3+460~K3+550段位于水田路段。路堤填筑高度5~6m,填料为砂性土。该路段的软基处理方案如下图所示。工程开工前,在建设单位的主持下,由设计单位向施工单位交桩,设计单
某水利枢纽工程有混凝土重力坝、水电站等建筑物构成。施工单位与项目法人签订了其中某坝段的施工承包合同,部分合同条款如下:(1)合同总金额15000万元整;开工日期为2007年9月20日,总工期为26个月。(2)开工前项目法人向施工单位支付10%的工程预
根据《治安管理处罚法》的规定,下列关于调查的说法正确的是()
一般情况下,税收规范性文件执行时间是()。
班杜拉认为学习和表现是不同的,人们并不是把学到的每件事都表现出来,是否表现出来取决于()。
人气:粉丝
在债的关系中,()。
Achildwhohasoncebeenpleasedwithatalelikes,asarule,tohaveitretoldinidenticallythesamewords,butthisshould
Breakfastcanbe_______inyourroomfromseveno’clocktoten.
最新回复
(
0
)