Category Archives: International

CBC: Visiting Carleton prof denied work permit over 1981 arrest

An American professor scheduled to teach at Carleton University this fall was denied a work permit because of his arrest during a protest 26 years ago — a move he says has chilling implications for activists and protesters on both sides of the border.

“I’ve not been convicted of a crime,” said Tom Juravich, who teaches labour studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. “But somehow now, simply because I was arrested 26 years ago, I seem to be a potential threat here in Canada.”

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The Chronicle News Blog: Turkish Scholar Sues to Overturn Law on ‘Denigrating Turkishness’

A scholar at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies has filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights that he says is the first attempt to overturn through that legal channel a controversial provision of Turkey’s penal code that criminalizes “denigrating Turkishness.”

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Philippine News: 2 professors suspended as AIM pay spat escalates

The Asian Institute of Management has suspended two top professors for a year, in the latest escalation over a P984-million back salary and tenure fight that has been brewing for years now in the region’s first business school.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Israeli Science Renews Ties to European Union, Defying Calls for Boycott

Under an agreement signed today by Israeli and European Union officials, Israel will contribute about $607-million to the European Union’s six-year, $69-billion research budget, known as the Seventh Framework Program. Israeli scientists will also be eligible to compete for financing from the newly created European Research Council.

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Inside Higher Ed: Saving Iraq’s Scholars

In an urgent effort to save a critical mass of scholars unlike any initiative undertaken since World War II, the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund is finalizing plans to rescue hundreds of Iraqi professors beginning in the coming months.

“We consider it to be the first large-scale effort of its kind since the 1930s, when IIE’s Emergency Rescue Committee rescued over 300 senior European scholars and brought them to safety in the United States,” said Jim Miller, director of strategic partnerships for the Scholar Rescue Fund (which also awards renewable, one-year fellowships to scholars from all over the world when they can’t safely stay in their home countries based on an application process).

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The Chronicle: Former Mexican President Wins Key Legal Battle Regarding His Responsibility for ’68 Massacre

Former Mexican president, Luis Echeverría, appears to be winning a years-long legal battle against human-rights activists in Mexico who want him to be tried for his role in a 1968 massacre of student protesters.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Corruption Scandal at Italian University Sweeps Up a Dozen People

Rome — Denouncing a “media pillory” that has deprived him of the presumption of innocence, the rector of a public university in southeastern Italy has resigned amid a criminal investigation into a large-scale university construction project. Oronzo Limone, who had been rector of the University of Salento since 2001, is under investigation by prosecutors and the police for irregularities in the approval of a humanities center to be located in a former tobacco factory in the city of Lecce.

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The Guardian: Iranian Police Raid Pro-Democracy Group

Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday’s anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country’s main pro-democracy student group, student leaders said.

Fifteen students and a mother were beaten and detained, they said. There was no confirmation by the government, which rarely comments on such arrests.

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International Herald Tribune: Top Baghdad University official shot to death in front of his daughter, police say

A top Baghdad University official was shot to death in front of his daughter in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in the capital, police said.

Nihad Mohammed al-Rawi, a Sunni Arab in his mid-50s, was killed after gunmen intercepted the car that was carrying him home, a police official said, adding that al-Rawi’s daughter and two bodyguards were in the car but were not harmed.

Al-Rawi, the deputy in charge of administrative affairs and head of the chemical engineering department at Iraq’s main university, was the latest in a string of academics and students targeted by both sides of the sectarian divided as extremists see universities as bastions of Western, non-Islamic thought.

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