@article{Blackburn Cohen_2019, title={World-Class Universities and Institutional Autonomy in China}, url={https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/11699}, DOI={10.6017/ihe.2019.99.11699}, abstractNote={<p>With the release of Scholars at Risk’s (SAR’s) <em>Obstacles to Excellence: Academic Freedom and China’s Quest for World-Class Universities</em>, institutional autonomy ascends to the fore. In China’s pursuit to transform its institutions into world-class universities, global rankings have offered metrics to purported advancement but too often lack consideration of academic freedom and institutional autonomy, permitting only a shrinking space for vital questions as China applies enormous effort to impose control while seeking the status of a world-class knowledge producer.</p> <p><em>This article is based on a Scholars at Risk’s report entitled</em> Obstacles to Excellence: Academic Freedom and China’s Quest for World-Class Universities<em>, available on SAR’s website at </em><a href="https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/">https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/</a>.</p>}, number={99}, journal={International Higher Education}, author={Blackburn Cohen, Chelsea}, year={2019}, month={Sep.}, pages={26–28} }