The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund raising.

董事会最终选择了布鲁斯·本森，一位69岁的科罗拉多商人，同时也是一位政治活动家，他很可能执行现代大学校长的主要任务：筹资，并且做得很好。

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Academic globalisation has gone into overdrive in the modern university.

在现代大学中学术全球化已经进入过度驱使的状态。

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The realization of academic freedom is closely related to the establishment of modern university institutions.

学术自由的实现与现代大学制度的建构密切相关。

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Jeff Kingston teaches modern Japanese history at the Temple University branch in Tokyo.

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And so what we ended up doing is the last four weeks of class after we had grounded it in the history of the modern university, understood the structure of it, we had the students select topics that they were really interested in.

所以我们最后选择,在最后四周，在我们了解了,现代大学的历史，理解大学的结构之后，我们让学生们选择一些,他们真正感兴趣的话题。

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Creating a world-class modern university needs flexibility in hiring, promotion and pay rather than the rigid rules that are traditional in the region.

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But the modern university teaches follow-through only by accident, forcing students to take tedious classes and then rewarding those who don't drop out.

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It was Brad Delong who first explained to me the woeful technological structure of the modern university (not explained just to me, wrote it on his blog).

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