TY - JOUR AU - Blackburn Cohen, Chelsea PY - 2019/09/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - World-Class Universities and Institutional Autonomy in China JF - International Higher Education JA - IHE VL - 0 IS - 99 SE - China Issues DO - 10.6017/ihe.2019.99.11699 UR - https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/11699 SP - 26-28 AB - <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> ER -