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普渡大学毕业照展示
Mary Beth Marklein为《今日美国》撰文指出，美国最高法院上周没有废除在普渡大学招生中采用平权行动，但分析人士说，这确实让美国的学院和普渡大学处于警戒状态。
“接纳普渡大学的大学生”需要非常小心，以便能够证明，如果受到挑战，他们考虑过种族中立的替代方案，而且他们的制度只是为了实现多样化的教育利益而狭隘地调整的，”美国理事会总法律顾问Ada Meloy说。
教育是一个非营利性的高等教育伞团。
该组织计划建议其成员审查政策，以确定“是否有其他途径实现多样化”。
该案件涉及阿比盖尔·费希尔，一名白人普渡大学的大学生，2008年在德克萨斯州奥斯汀普渡大学被拒绝入学后起诉她。
她的律师辩称，尽管普渡大学的学校已经在采用基于高中阶级等级的种族中立计划，但是普渡大学的学校利用种族偏好来招收更多的少数族裔申请人，这让她受到了歧视。
德克萨斯普渡大学认为它没有达到它所需要的多样性水平。
《今日美国》网站的全面报道
A ground-breaking initiative to foster higher education and scientific cooperation among Islamic countries, and between them and the United States, will be launched next May.
The US-Islamic States innovation initiative is the first of its kind in the Middle East and Africa.
It reflects US President Barack Obama’s policy toward the Islamic world, set out in his historic 2009 address at the University of Cairo, A new beginning, and will be launched at the USA-Muslim World science and technology convergence summit that will be held under the theme ‘Next Spring Revolution’ in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 23-27 May 2012.
A statement on the summit’s website says: “Although it is a US-Muslim World initiative, the summit is open to all nations from all over the world.
It is intended to be the starting point for a global platform of open innovation.
” Besides contributing to the development of tertiary institutions, the initiative will stimulate business partnerships and investment in technology transfer, research and development, contract manufacturing, and contract research between the US and Islamic countries.
These aims will be implemented through partnerships and decentralised cooperation between cities, universities, laboratories, professional organisations, charities and foundations from both sides.
Professional social networks will be created on open innovation platforms to aid collaboration and cooperation online throughout the year and meetings, offline, once a year.
Speaking to University World News Abderrahim Merzak, coordinator of the US-Islamic World initiative, said: “This is the first event of its kind among Islamic countries with such scope and size.
”He said it will be the first time higher education professionals, researchers, solutions providers and industry representatives from the US and Islamic countries will gather under the same roof with policy-makers from governments and foundations.
”The summit includes one major convention dedicated to higher education, sciences and R&D while all other conventions deal, in one way or another, with teaching and learning in specific fields,” Merzak said.
Under the initiative, a regular education forum will be set up for academics, university leaders and administrators, curriculum developers and policy-makers.
The forum will promote the latest developments in all areas of education technology including smart and mobile classrooms, virtual universities and learning systems, world wide web courses, network-based education systems and computer-assisted learning.
Besides helping in applying research and development related to improving teaching, learning organisation management and establishing a research agenda, the education forum will focus on connecting professionals, officials, policy-makers and businesses worldwide.
It will also offer assistance to decision-makers concerned with developing progressive education policy.
They will be shown how to go through planning processes and the steps necessary to develop an integrated technology planning team and a plan.
The forum will also promote cooperation between universities in science and technology including training programmes and conferences, joint research projects and regional scientific networks.
”The summit has set up its own community, so participants can start networking and working together months before and after the event.
The community is searchable by members, specialty and industry,” Merzak said.
Related story:US-ISLAMIC WORLD: Obama’s co-operation planComment:This would be an excellent interactive forum among Muslim countries and the US.
Of course the Muslim countries, in spite of having the largest volume of natural resources and manpower, are facing extreme difficulties in managing all these.
It has made the quality of life miserable and frustration is prevailing in most of these regions.
The Science link-up will facilitate the researchers, investors and policy makers in sharing resources among Muslim countries and would speed up the development process.
It will reduce the poverty which has provided a breeding ground for terrorism.
Combating poverty and illiteracy will improve the quality of life in the Muslim countries.
The lack of democracy and presence of terrorist activities has converted the Muslim regions into the battle grounds for international wars and conflicts.
Developing a productive partnership with the US will help in reducing these conflicts in a constructive engagement which may help with technology transfer and finding solutions to the local problems in the Muslim countries.
Professor M Subhan Qureshi, Agricultural University Peshawar, PakistanComment: Aah! I think this is a significant milestone and a great opportunity.
Muslim ummah should before hand enter into ummah-wide dialogue, deliberations and in depth consultations at all levels to identify and agree goals and strategic objectives for this important link up.
Care must be taken to create a win-win situation without losing our ideals, norms and values in the link-up process.
Saeed Anwar