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It is rare for a tale of academic mismanagement in a small institution to grab national attention. But Sciences-Po is no ordinar
It is rare for a tale of academic mismanagement in a small institution to grab national attention. But Sciences-Po is no ordinar
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2015-09-26
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It is rare for a tale of academic mismanagement in a small institution to grab national attention. But Sciences-Po is no ordinary university. The four most recent French presidents, including Frangois Hollande, studied there. In the heart of the Parisian left bank, it attracts top-rated students and staff. And it has been without a head since its former director, Richard Descoings, died suddenly in April in a New York hotel room.
Now a report on Sciences-Po by the national auditor that talks of "management failure" and " numerous violations " has sparked furious debate. Critics have seized on managerial extravagance. Aggrieved students, whose tuition fees have risen sharply, have denounced excessive pay. Others have called for board resignations. And the higher-education minister, Genevieve Fioraso, has rejected Sciences-Po’s choice of successor—Herve Cres, its deputy director—and imposed a caretaker.
Sciences-Po is an odd creature. The state finances half its budget, but the school is run by a private foundation and is thus unconstrained by rules about selection, fees and salary caps that bind other public universities. Between 2005 and 2010, the school’s budget jumped by over 60% , the state subsidy rose by a third and Sciences-Po more than doubled its student intake, to 3,500. But, says the auditor, it added too many administrative staff, paid them and faculty members too much(Descoings earned €537,247 or $711,585 in 2010)and also took on "risky debt". The mismanagement, admits one professor, was "scandalous".
Sciences-Po says it will clean things up and improve transparency. But the debate has broadened: should it return to its old role as a public-service feeder for the Ecole Nationale D’Administration(ENA), the top civil-service graduate school? Or should Sciences-Po continue with Descoings’s project to turn it into an American-style university that competes globally for students and researchers?
For all his faults, Descoings boldly took on the French establishment. He built exchanges with American universities and lured foreign students to Paris. He recruited students from heavily immigrant suburbs. And he got the school to set up new research centers, such as an economics department. He did all this with a flexibility over recruitment that the French university establishment disliked. "It is very difficult to attract the best and maintain a center of excellence without this autonomy," says another faculty member, fretful that it could now be compromised.
The trouble is that in the conservative mind, the scandal of Sciences-Po’s mismanagement has undermined its credibility. The old elite may now have a stronger hand against the international-minded inheritors of Descoings. Ms. Fioraso wants a new director to be chosen by January. The caretaker who must find one happens to be a former ENA classmate of Mr. Hollande’s.
What does the word "Aggrieved" mean in Paragraph 2?
选项
A、Angry.
B、Aggressive.
C、Sad.
D、Recruited.
答案
A
解析
语义题。Aggrieved在文中修饰“学生们”,文章第二段第三句表明,学生们由于学费猛增而谴责收费过高,由此推知.学生的态度应该是非常气愤的,所以选[A]。[B]“好斗的”、[C]“悲伤的”和[D]“被招收的”均不符合此处语义,故排除。
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