Academic

Academic

Academics generally work either teaching or researching in universities or colleges.

Decreasing independence

“In academic institutions, freedom of thought and expression is in retreat in many areas. Administrators of universities have become top-down representatives of government, rather than defenders of the independence of their institutions. Funding is sought from corporations as well as governments: "market forces" is a euphemism for conformity to corporate demands.”
Ivo Mosley (2013) 

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Patrik Oksanen	January 2021
John E. McLaughlin	2020		Former acting Director of Central Intelligence
Maria de Goeij	April 2018		Deleted this piece of history from her LinkedIn. Now called "thinktank" and having no resignation date.
Johanna Möhring	November 2013		Also programme director
Joris Voorhoeve	2011
Christopher Kojm	2007
Hannes Adomeit	2007	2017	Also headed the German cluster of the Integrity Initiative.
Salome Zourabichvili	2006	2014	In between jobs ruling Georgia
Robbie Sutton	November 2001	July 2005
Robbie Sutton	February 2000	October 2001
Seymour Lipset	1990	2006
John Lough	1989	1995
James Sherr	1986	2008	International Relations
Chris Exley	1984	2021	Pressured out by university management because of his research into the toxicity of aluminium
Daniel Meltzer	1982	2009
Seymour Lipset	1979	1990
Phillip Karber	1978
Richard McCormack	1975	1977
Michael Boskin	1970
Chris Donnelly	1969	1973
Charles Burton Marshall	1965	1975
Franjo Tuđman	1963	1967	Attended Harvard/International Seminar/1966
Pierre Salmon	1959	1993	Attended 1977 Bilderberg as President of the department of Social Sciences
Isaiah Berlin	1957	1967
Alfred Grosser	1955	1992
Jaap Kymmell	1955	1973	Attended Bilderberg 1967
Sheldon Wolin	1954	1970	Created the concept of inverted totalitarianism
Hans Zetterberg	1953	1964
Robert Scalapino	1949	1990	Attended Bilderberg/1972 and Bilderberg/1994
Thorkil Kristensen	1947	1960	Attended Bilderberg 1958
Carl Burckhardt	1932	1937

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
John le Carré	“Big Pharma is also engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgement to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find.”	John le Carré
Dan Kovalik	“I make $3,000 for my 3-credit course, sometimes teaching over 50 students in my class at one time. In turn, these students pay between $36,000 and $46,000 in tuition a year, depending on their state residency. Averaging this out to $40,000 a year on tuition, and assuming students take around 30 credits a year, I figure out that for my class of 50, the school brings in a total of $100,000 and gives me $3,000 of that. In other words, while I make a very meager pay, and absolutely no benefits, the Law School is making a hefty profit - a profit that is sucked up by the growing class of administrators and by the few tenured faculty left. Pretty nice for an allegedly nonprofit institution.”	Dan Kovalik	2021
PRIO	“Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions.”	Ola Tunander	6 March 2021