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== Controversy == |
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SAS has been described as an "academic sweatshop" and an "abusive institution" by a former faculty member who canvassed the opinions of her colleagues and students for an article in openDemocracy..<ref>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/how-love-what-you-do-went-wrong-in-an-academic-sweatshop-in-siberia/</ref> This article has been widely discussed in academic circles within Russia and beyond. In these discussions SAS has been criticised for not being open about the fact that it is run by faculty from Skolkovo Management School in Moscow, according to principles derived from soviet-era management guru [[Georgy_Shchedrovitsky|Georgi Shchedrovitsky]]. Skolkovo Management School is a private business school which is involved in training university and corporate management teams across Russia and uses, in its organization of teamwork, elements of Shchedrovitsky methodology.<ref>https://corporate.skolkovo.ru/en/corporate/method/</ref> It is said on the Carnegie Moscow Center website that "Shchedrovitsky essentially viewed human beings as machines that must be programed to perform certain functions—essentially, the theory of “social engineering.”<ref>https://carnegie.ru/commentary/65015 </ref> |
SAS has been described as an "academic sweatshop" and an "abusive institution" by a former faculty member who canvassed the opinions of her colleagues and students for an article in openDemocracy..<ref>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/how-love-what-you-do-went-wrong-in-an-academic-sweatshop-in-siberia/</ref> This article has been widely discussed in academic circles within Russia and beyond{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}}. In these discussions SAS has been criticised for not being open about the fact that it is run by faculty from Skolkovo Management School in Moscow, according to principles derived from soviet-era management guru [[Georgy_Shchedrovitsky|Georgi Shchedrovitsky]]{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}}. Skolkovo Management School is a private business school which is involved in training university and corporate management teams across Russia and uses, in its organization of teamwork, elements of Shchedrovitsky methodology.<ref>https://corporate.skolkovo.ru/en/corporate/method/</ref> It is said on the Carnegie Moscow Center website that "Shchedrovitsky essentially viewed human beings as machines that must be programed to perform certain functions—essentially, the theory of “social engineering.”<ref>https://carnegie.ru/commentary/65015 </ref> |
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However, the director of SAS, whose SKOLKOVO affiliation has now been included on his SAS bio in response to criticism that he concealed it, claims he has never been an adept of this management theory, that it only has a limited following at SKOLKOVO and is not nearly as radical as Carnegie center suggests. Although he has never himself been a faculty member in a liberal arts college, he says his vision of education and research was formed as a graduate student at St. Petersburg State University (Russia), at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as during his postdoc years at Columbia University and the University of Sheffield. He has described it as an "anti-human" philosophy in conversation with faculty, and compares it to the methods used in World Series Baseball by the Brad Pitt character in Moneyball. It is a model based on high attrition rates among students and faculty in order to find people willing to suppress their individuality as researchers in conformity with a rigidly abstract formula. |
However, the director of SAS, whose SKOLKOVO affiliation has now been included on his SAS bio in response to criticism that he concealed it, claims he has never been an adept of this management theory, that it only has a limited following at SKOLKOVO and is not nearly as radical as Carnegie center suggests. Although he has never himself been a faculty member in a liberal arts college, he says his vision of education and research was formed as a graduate student at St. Petersburg State University (Russia), at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as during his postdoc years at Columbia University and the University of Sheffield. He has described it as an "anti-human" philosophy in conversation with faculty, and compares it to the methods used in World Series Baseball by the Brad Pitt character in Moneyball. It is a model based on high attrition rates among students and faculty in order to find people willing to suppress their individuality as researchers in conformity with a rigidly abstract formula.{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}} |
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SAS faculty are generally very unhappy about their jobs, as evidenced by the fact that 75% of the founding cohort left, were fired, or failed to have their contracts renewed in the first three years. However, the dire nature of the academic job market means SAS has a growing body of international faculty (currently representing 12 countries) |
SAS faculty are generally very unhappy about their jobs, as evidenced by the fact that 75% of the founding cohort left, were fired, or failed to have their contracts renewed in the first three years{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}}. However, the dire nature of the academic job market means SAS has a growing body of international faculty (currently representing 12 countries){{Citation needed|reason=No evidence/citation found|date=October 2020}}. An analysis representing an opposing view of SAS has recently been published by a team of Stanford graduate students who interviewed management-approved faculty and administrators under the title "Reimagining Russian Higher Education".<ref>http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/surfj/article/view/1736</ref> Current SAS faculty are contractually prohibited from publicly criticising the school and most have chosen to stay silent about the controversy surrounding it{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}}. Those who did speak out did not have their contracts renewed. SAS has internal machinery devoted to cleaning the internet of the kind of critical commentary that appears on social media{{Citation needed|reason=Original editor refuses to provide a reference|date=October 2020}};<ref>https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsvetlana.yerpyleva%2Fposts%2F4001612636575332</ref><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flev.manovich%2Fposts%2F10159461916042316 commentary] </ref> posting counterfeit testimonials;<ref>https://tabiturient.ru/sliv/n/?1801</ref> and independent journalism such as the article '"Go big or go home" - My first teaching experience'<ref>https://www.echer.org/my-first-teaching-experience/</ref>, written for a blog edited by the SAS Education Director, by an adjunct faculty member whom he hired to cover a teacher-shortage created by the school's brutal measures against its own faculty{{Citation needed|reason=No citation found|date=October 2020}};or 'A Bold Move in Multidisciplinarity and Academic Hiring' written by a SKOLKOVO employee for University World News.<ref>https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190422080823183</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 04:12, 1 November 2020
Школа перспективных исследований | |
Type | Public, honors college, liberal arts and sciences college |
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Established | 2017 |
Director | Andrey Shcherbenok |
Academic staff | 25 full-time professors |
Students | 185 |
Undergraduates | 155 |
Postgraduates | 30 |
Address | 8 Marta St, 2k1 , , |
Website | https://sas.utmn.ru/en/ |
School of Advanced Studies (SAS) (Школа перспективных исследований in Russian) is a greenfield liberal arts and sciences institution at the University of Tyumen, Siberia, Russia, focusing on both teaching and multidisciplinary research.
The School was established in September 2017, with a liberal arts college model as its basis. The School is the second of its kind in Russia, after the Smolny College. SAS was developed in the framework of the University of Tyumen’s strategy within the 5-100 Project. The School combines three major fields of study: social sciences, arts and humanities, and life sciences. The BA and MA programs offered by SAS are in English, though some courses are also available in Russian.
Academics
SAS faculty are a combination of full-time professors and visiting professors. Full-time professors are on a three-year contract. They are paid a subsistence level base salary. The remaining 80% of their salary is made up of performance bonuses which are automatically removed if they fail the annual external peer review.
Undergraduate education
In terms of the undergraduate education model, SAS is an honors college within the University of Tyumen.[1]
During the first two years, students follow the core curriculum and also take elective courses. The core curriculum consists of the following courses: Writing, Thinking, Analysis, Interpretation; The City as Text; History; Great Books: Philosophy and Social Thought; Quantitative methods; Global Issues; Information Technology; Topics of the First Year; Interpreting Artworks; Problems of the Modern Sciences; Academic Writing; Great Books: Literature; Fundamentals of Management; Research Seminar; Effective Communications.
Electives are courses that both permanent and visiting faculty offer for all the SAS students based on the faculty’s research interests. All electives are intensive 4-credit seminars that, typically, convene four times a week for 90 minutes during one two-month quarter. Out of 4 weekly sessions, one is reserved for student teamwork[2]. In the academic year 2019-20, SAS offered 31 different electives[3].
During the first two years, students follow the core curriculum and also take elective courses. Afterwards, students declare one of the seven majors: Information Technology and Digital Society, Cultural Studies, Life Sciences, Economics, Film and Media Studies, Historical Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology. Additionally, students complete one of the minors.[4]
Graduate education
SAS has two professional Master’s programs: Master of Arts in Digital Cultures and Media Production and Master of Arts in Experimental Higher Education[5]. The Digital Cultures and Media Production (DC&MP) program trains students to create media products that are needed in universities, educational organisations, and research centers[6]. The Experimental Higher Education (MA X-HE) program was launched in 2020. It is a 2-year long program which aims to train its students to become professionals in higher education, focusing on educational innovations[7].
Research
SAS research is carried out in multidisciplinary research teams. In 2020, there were five research teams[8] operating within SAS:
- Citizenship Reframed: Reimagining Political Belonging through the Environment, Psychology, and Visuality;
- Education in the Tragic Key: Learning in an age of Crisis and Anxiety;
- Free Will, Consciousness, Determinism: An Interdisciplinary Investigation;
- Laboratories of Democracy;
- Unnaturally Human: Enhancement and Manipulation of Human Capacity to Perceive and Perform.
Tuition
SAS offers a combination of state-funded, university-funded, and places with a tuition fee. Additionally, the best students according to the academic rating, receive scholarships[9].
Academic calendar
The academic year at SAS is divided into four quarters.[10]
Faculty
SAS faculty are a combination of full-time professors and visiting professors[11]. The ones with a three-year renewable contracts. Faculty are selected via the Project Design Session cluster hiring process, based on how they perform in multidisciplinary teamwork exercises[12].
Academic writing center
The Academic writing center helps SAS students with their writing by offering them feedback in the form of one-on-one consultations. The AWC also organises workshops for the students[13].
Outreach
During the academic year, SAS offers open courses twice a week, which are free for the public to attend, are recorded and published on the School’s youtube channel.[14] Every summer, SAS runs a summer school for high-school students.[15] Every summer, SAS runs a summer school for high-school students[16].
Each year, SAS organises a conference. The past conferences include:
- Disciplinary Landscape — 2020, "Dare to Experiment: Higher Education between Safety and Danger";
- Love is Revolting: interdisciplinary symposium;
- The ultimate goal of the workshop is to find a path forward for the research on materiality and love, but even more so for an interdisciplinary rapport;
- Disciplinary Landscape — 2018, "Critical Thinking in Academia Today";
- Disciplinary Landscape — 2017, "Disciplinary Regimes of Truth";
- The Duration of Immersion[17]
Network memberships
SAS is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, which currently has a membership of over 250 organisations around the world.
Building
SAS has a separate building, renovated in 2017. Apart from the School itself, there is a nonfiction bookstore and a café in the building.
Controversy
SAS has been described as an "academic sweatshop" and an "abusive institution" by a former faculty member who canvassed the opinions of her colleagues and students for an article in openDemocracy..[18] This article has been widely discussed in academic circles within Russia and beyond[citation needed]. In these discussions SAS has been criticised for not being open about the fact that it is run by faculty from Skolkovo Management School in Moscow, according to principles derived from soviet-era management guru Georgi Shchedrovitsky[citation needed]. Skolkovo Management School is a private business school which is involved in training university and corporate management teams across Russia and uses, in its organization of teamwork, elements of Shchedrovitsky methodology.[19] It is said on the Carnegie Moscow Center website that "Shchedrovitsky essentially viewed human beings as machines that must be programed to perform certain functions—essentially, the theory of “social engineering.”[20]
However, the director of SAS, whose SKOLKOVO affiliation has now been included on his SAS bio in response to criticism that he concealed it, claims he has never been an adept of this management theory, that it only has a limited following at SKOLKOVO and is not nearly as radical as Carnegie center suggests. Although he has never himself been a faculty member in a liberal arts college, he says his vision of education and research was formed as a graduate student at St. Petersburg State University (Russia), at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as during his postdoc years at Columbia University and the University of Sheffield. He has described it as an "anti-human" philosophy in conversation with faculty, and compares it to the methods used in World Series Baseball by the Brad Pitt character in Moneyball. It is a model based on high attrition rates among students and faculty in order to find people willing to suppress their individuality as researchers in conformity with a rigidly abstract formula.[citation needed]
SAS faculty are generally very unhappy about their jobs, as evidenced by the fact that 75% of the founding cohort left, were fired, or failed to have their contracts renewed in the first three years[citation needed]. However, the dire nature of the academic job market means SAS has a growing body of international faculty (currently representing 12 countries)[citation needed]. An analysis representing an opposing view of SAS has recently been published by a team of Stanford graduate students who interviewed management-approved faculty and administrators under the title "Reimagining Russian Higher Education".[21] Current SAS faculty are contractually prohibited from publicly criticising the school and most have chosen to stay silent about the controversy surrounding it[citation needed]. Those who did speak out did not have their contracts renewed. SAS has internal machinery devoted to cleaning the internet of the kind of critical commentary that appears on social media[citation needed];[22][23] posting counterfeit testimonials;[24] and independent journalism such as the article '"Go big or go home" - My first teaching experience'[25], written for a blog edited by the SAS Education Director, by an adjunct faculty member whom he hired to cover a teacher-shortage created by the school's brutal measures against its own faculty[citation needed];or 'A Bold Move in Multidisciplinarity and Academic Hiring' written by a SKOLKOVO employee for University World News.[26]
References
- ^ within the University of Tyumen.
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/electives-en/
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/course-catalogue-2019-2020.pdf
- ^ "Education » School of advanced studies". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/education-en/#section2
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/ma-en/
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/ma-ehe-en/
- ^ "Research Projects » School of advanced studies". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/scholarship/
- ^ "Academic Calendar » School of advanced studies". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/people-en/
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/faculty-search-en/
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/academic-writing-center-en/
- ^ youtube channel
- ^ "Summer School » School of advanced studies". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ "Summer School » School of advanced studies". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ https://sas.utmn.ru/en/conferences-en/
- ^ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/how-love-what-you-do-went-wrong-in-an-academic-sweatshop-in-siberia/
- ^ https://corporate.skolkovo.ru/en/corporate/method/
- ^ https://carnegie.ru/commentary/65015
- ^ http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/surfj/article/view/1736
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsvetlana.yerpyleva%2Fposts%2F4001612636575332
- ^ commentary
- ^ https://tabiturient.ru/sliv/n/?1801
- ^ https://www.echer.org/my-first-teaching-experience/
- ^ https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190422080823183