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Academic societies sink to admit CEOs
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday
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THE saddest thing in China's academic world is that it has increasingly become a haven of administrative power.
On May 25, the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced a list of membership candidates for 2011. To public amazement, many corporate CEOs and government officials were included. But that's nothing new.
In 2009, more than 85 percent of the new candidates for the same academy were administrative bureaucrats in universities or research institutes or corporate chairmen. Likewise, more than 80 percent of the new candidates for the Chinese Academy of Sciences were similar bureaucrats.
Despite media and public criticism all these years, bureaucrats and businessmen seem undaunted in acquiring glorious academic titles, and the academic world seems unashamed in awarding its laurels to those with power.
Worship of power has become a social tumor that permeates everywhere, even the sacred world of academic research.
On May 25, the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced a list of membership candidates for 2011. To public amazement, many corporate CEOs and government officials were included. But that's nothing new.
In 2009, more than 85 percent of the new candidates for the same academy were administrative bureaucrats in universities or research institutes or corporate chairmen. Likewise, more than 80 percent of the new candidates for the Chinese Academy of Sciences were similar bureaucrats.
Despite media and public criticism all these years, bureaucrats and businessmen seem undaunted in acquiring glorious academic titles, and the academic world seems unashamed in awarding its laurels to those with power.
Worship of power has become a social tumor that permeates everywhere, even the sacred world of academic research.
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