a petition re the russian state university of the humanities (rggu)

[Rossen Djagalov]

Friends, as many of you know, last week the Russian ministry of education made public a list of "inefficient" universities, which are now in danger of closure, forced mergers, and other forms of reorganization: http://www.lenta.ru/articles/
2012/11/02/minobr. The list in itself is terrible for all sorts of reasons, but the inclusion in it of the Russian State University of the Humanities (RGGU, an alma mater of mine) in particular is truly baffling and could be easily challenged even by the criteria used for drawing up this list. To this end, several of us (former visiting students at RGGU with the input of a few current faculty members there) have initiated a petition on behalf of foreign-based academics, addressed to the Russian Ministry of Education and attesting to RGGU's international standing: https://www.change.org/petitions/to-the-russian-ministry-of-education-and-science-rggu-is-not-an-inefficient-university

We hope you would consider expressing your solidarity with teachers and students at RGGU by signing and circulating this petition.

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