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

[Alina Israeli]

One has to examine the reason why RGGU got on the list. Even Wikipedia  
will tell you that RGGU has an enormously long list of branches

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82#.D0.A4.D0.B8.D0.BB.D0.B8.D0.B0.D0.BB.D1.8B

(just as long as the URL itself)

including 13 in Moscow region alone http://www2.rsuh.ru/section.html?id=181

More than Northern Virginia Community College which has 10 campuses.

As a matter of fact RGGU was already criticized for poor quality of  
education in those branches before.

So RGGU should get the wake up call, do some soul searching and close  
some inefficient campuses if they want to improve the ranking.


Alina


On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Rossen Djagalov wrote:

> 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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Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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