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Mikołaj Prokopowicz z Szadka – astrolog, astronom, historyk nauki, miłośnik i znawca książki (1489–1564)

Mikołaj was born in a middle-class family in Szadek. After completing studies at Cracow Academy started teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy in 1512. In 1515 he become professor of astrology and obtained the Chair of Astrology. In 1523 he was appointed to his first important administrative function at Cracow Academy, i.e. Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. Later undertook studies at the Faculty of Theology, where he received doctorate in 1534. Soon afterwards he transferred to the Faculty of Theology. He was very strongly involved in university affairs and devoted much time and energy to administrative duties. In 1548 he became Rector of Cracow Academy, to hold this office for nine more terms (until 1561). Parallel with the university career he advanced in the Church hierarchy – in 1553 became the canon of the cathedral chapter in Cracow. His contribution to Polish literature includes official calendars and astrological forecasts (in Latin and Polish), published systematically in the period 1518–1531. Apart from astrology his other passion was reflected in the diary which he kept for many years. As the university library custodian, he devoted much energy to taking care of Cracow Academy’s collection of books. Mikołaj of Szadek had many disciples. He died in Cracow on 22 December 1564, having attained top level in university career and a high position in Church hierarchy.

Acceptance of the Clark P. Read Mentor Award: Mentor and Mentee–A Lasting Relationship

Acceptance of the Clark P. Read Mentor Award: Mentor and Mentee–A Lasting Relationship

Performance Measurement and the Governance of American Academic Science

Neoliberal precepts of the governance of academic science-deregulation; reification of markets; emphasis on competitive allocation processes have been conflated with those of performance management—if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it—into a single analytical and consequent single programmatic worldview. As applied to the United States’ system of research universities, this conflation leads to two major divergences from relationships hypothesized in the governance of science literature. (1) The governance and financial structures supporting academic science in the United States’ system of higher education are sufficiently different from those found in many other OECD countries where these policies have been adopted to produce political pressures for an increase rather than a decrease in governmental control over university affairs. (2) The major impact upon academic science of performance measurement systems has come not externally from new government requirements but internally from the independent adoption of these techniques by universities, initially in the name of rational management and increasingly as devices to foster reputational enhancement. The overall thrust of the two trends in the U.S. has been less a shift as experienced elsewhere from bureaucratic to market modes of governance than the displacement of professional-collegial control by internal bureaucratic control.

Le financement de l’enseignement supérieur au Québec

The first part of this paper describes the methods by which Quebec universities are financed and stresses the importance of non-accounted expenditures and the relative contribution of the three main sources of financing, namely the federal and provincial governments and the students. The second part investigates the normative aspects of the methods used. Government intervention can be based on three grounds: on the social aspect of the good, on the redistribution objective, and lastly, on the greater indivisibility of university formation costs. It is shown that the present knowledge of the production function and the results on returns to higher education and to university research do not make it possible to determine an optimal amount of resources for this sector. Government intervention in university affairs can take different forms and five principles are formulated as a guide for the establishment of a new financing formula. Finally, the role of student fees is studied as a means to promote efficiency in universities.

SH12 SURGEONS AS LIONTAMERS: THE COLLEGE ROLE IN DEVELOPING TODAY'S YOUNGER FELLOWS INTO TOMORROW'S LEADERS

Prior to the 2009 ASC, as is now customary, a Younger Fellows Forum, with this year's focus on “Challenges in the New Millennium”, has been staged. Advertisements for the “challenging program” summarize the key learning outcomes as, “to experience a sense of Fellowship, to develop leadership skills, and, to explore future surgical issues”.It is now almost three decades since the inaugural course was held, and it is appropriate that a review of that 1982 course be conducted, with an overview of its origins, its goals, its achievements and its outcomes.A small notice in the July 1981 RACS Bulletin advised that a “Special Course for Young Fellows” was proposed to be held in Wellington, immediately after the 55th G.S.M. in Christchurch. “Attendance will be limited to 20, with a full geographic distribution. Selection will be undertaken by the State and New Zealand Committees. The purpose of the course is to advance the participants’ knowledge of the Science of Surgery with special emphasis on professional excellence, leadership, and involvement in College affairs. The programme, to which each participant will be expected to make significant personal contributions, will include clinical, research, and professional topics. Sporting and social functions will be included, and participants will meet with Council during the course of its meeting. Accommodation will be in university colleges”.The author was a member of that group in 1982; during the meeting the College President requested the telling of a joke, as a direct result, the group subsequently became known as “The Liontamers”. This paper briefly reviews that first ever course for Younger Fellows and aspects of its long term outcomes.

College Affairs

College Affairs

Skin Cells Reprogrammed to Be Stem Cells

potential therapeutic benefits of beta-blockers for PTSD. A multiinstitution team of researchers led by Karim Nader, PhD, of the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, presented preliminary evidence from a small double-blind trial that treatment with beta-blockers may weaken the physiologic effects of traumarelated memories in patients with PTSD. The team asked 19 individuals with long-term PTSD to describe their traumatic event, and subsequently randomized the individuals to receive either propranolol or placebo for 24 hours. One week later the researchers measured physiologic responses, including heart rate and sweat, while the patients participated in script-driven mental imagery of their traumatic event. Physiologic responses were significantly smaller in the treated group. Other researchers are probing the efficacy of prazosin, a drug used to treat hypertension and enlarged prostate. Previously, researchers had demonstrated that prazosin helps reduce nightmares and other sleep disturbances in patients with PTSD (Raskind MA et al. Biol Psychiatry. 2007; 61[8]:928-934). Now, a team of researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is probing whether the drug might one day be used to help prevent PTSD from developing in individuals who are exposed to trauma. S. Paul Berger, MD, a member of the team, explained that prazosin, an 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, or a similar drug might be able to prevent neuronal injury caused by elevated levels of corticosteroids in the brain. Such elevated levels of corticosteroids have been documented in PTSD and other brain disorders such as Alzheimer disease and schizophrenia. Berger and colleagues presented data at the meeting that suggested pretreating rats with prazosin or labetalol, a nonspecific adrenoceptor antagonist, reduced neuronal damage (as measured by expression of heat shock protein) in rats treated with the glucocorticosteroid dexamethasone. Additional studies are necessary to determine if these types of drugs reduce the behavioral problems associated with such damage in rat models of the disorder. If further research supports the neuroprotective benefits of prazosin, Berger envisions the drug being used to treat patients within a week or 2 of their exposure to trauma in hopes of preventing the development of PTSD.

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College Affairs

The construction of academic administration learning platform

This study aims at exploring Knowledge Management (KM) of universities and how to combine the concepts of KM and information technology to increase the management capability of academic administration affairs. Individual In-depth Interview method was used to obtain information about academic administration office, the role the staff play and their willingness to cooperate with this implementation. We build up the framework of this study based on the theories on organisational learning in information technology and business. With facilitation of prototyping platform, the results of this study can be used as a reference for implementing KM on academic administration affairs of other universities.

University reforms: roles of classification in resource allocation and management

This study deals with university classification in Thailand. The Commission of Higher Education (CHE), formerly known as the Ministry of University Affairs, initiated and supported this study in the period 2005?2007. This classification study is based on the Carnegie Classification System by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT). It represents an integral part of the CHE's efforts on quality and managerial (i.e., administration, budget, resources) reforms at public universities. Altogether, there are five dimensions for classifying universities' positions: university characteristics, teaching, research, student body and management. Two combination sets from this study are experimented with using actual quantitative data. The results provide the baselines for resource allocation and educational management. Finally, the study's limitations and future research are discussed.

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The role of university classification on developing standards in education

The research aims to demonstrate a possible approach to development of standards. This approach is derived from the earlier university-classification project. The Commission of Higher Education (CHE), formerly known as the Ministry of University Affairs in Thailand, sponsored this project during 2005-2006. This project was part of CHE's quality assurance and public accountability efforts. The results were developed to uniquely fit universities' profiles (i.e., teaching-leaning or teaching-neutral, and research-leaning or research-neutral). For this research, the term baseline is a prerequisite for a standard. In order to further transform these baselines into the standards for educational management, several issues will have to be addressed. They include acceptability, practicality, usefulness and success predictability. Finally, the research's limitations are recognised and discussed.

Research standards for promotion and tenure in information systems

What constitutes excellence in information systems research for promotion and tenure? This is a question that is regularly addressed by members of promotion and tenure committees and those called upon to write external letters. While there are many elements to this question, one major element is the quality and quantity of an individual's research publications. An informal survey of senior Information Systems faculty members at 49 leading U.S. and Canadian universities found 86 percent to expect three or more articles in elite journals. In contrast, an analysis of publication performance of Ph.D. graduates between the years of 1992 and 2004 found that approximately three individuals in each graduating year of Ph.D.s (about 2 percent) published 3 or more articles in a set of 20 elite journals within 6 years of graduation. Only 15 individuals from each graduating year (11 percent) published one or more articles. As a discipline, we publish elite journal articles at a lower rate than Accounting, yet our promotion and tenure standards are higher, similar to those of Management, Marketing, and Finance. Thus, there is a growing divergence between research performance and research standards within the Information Systems discipline. As such, unless we make major changes, these differences will perpetuate a vicious cycle of increasing faculty turnover, declining influence on university affairs, and lower research productivity. We believe that we must act now to create a new future, and offer recommendations that focus on the use of more appropriate standards for promotion and tenure and ways to increase the number of articles published.

From the honorary secretary

Australasian PsychiatryVolume 14, Issue 1 p. 100-101 From the honorary secretary Jo Lammersma, Jo LammersmaSearch for more papers by this author Jo Lammersma, Jo LammersmaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 March 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1665.2006.02257b.x Full reports on these and other topics are published throughout the College Affairs section. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue1March 2006Pages 100-101 RelatedInformation

Collective Autonomy: A History of the Council of Ontario Universities, 1962-2000 (review)

Reviewed by: Collective Autonomy: A History of the Council of Ontario Universities, 1962-2000 Michiel Horn (bio) Edward J. Monahan . Collective Autonomy: A History of the Council of Ontario Universities, 1962-2000 Wilfrid Laurier University Press. xii, 240. $49.95 Reading Edward Monahan's book, I was reminded of the concepts of karass and granfalloon. Described in the 1963 novel Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, a karass is a group of people doing God's will without ever discovering what they are doing; a granfalloon is a false karass, something that seems to be a team but has no role in the way that God gets things done. The Council of Ontario Universities was and is a granfalloon. The comparison may seem far-fetched, frivolous, even harsh. However, from its beginning in 1962 the COU and its predecessor, the Committee of Presidents of Ontario Universities (CPUO) - the name changed in 1971 - consisted of a group of people who were often uncertain about what they should collectively be doing and who not infrequently worked at cross purposes. There was talk of a system, but COU never really was one. What held the group more or less together was that they represented the universities enjoying direct financial support from the provincial legislature. But each institution strove to preserve its autonomy and programs against government, against the Committee on University Affairs (CUA) - after 1974 the Ontario Committee of University Affairs (OCUA), which served as something of a buffer between the universities and government until it was abruptly abolished in 1996 - and against the other universities. Some of these showed an unseemly willingness to seize advantage over the others. Until I read Monahan I had not heard the term 'MacTwit group'; referring to McMaster, Toronto, Western Ontario, Queen's, and Waterloo, the self-identified research-oriented universities. The term seems more than apt. Monahan is well positioned to write this book. President of Laurentian University from 1972 to 1977, he left Sudbury to become the executive director of COU and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1991. However, his thorough knowledge of COU from the inside is mitigated by his apparent unwillingness to name names when this may embarrass someone. Moreover, twenty years in administration have done nothing for his style. The passive voice is dominant; clichés abound. The book reads rather like a 212-page executive memorandum. [End Page 440] For those willing to stick with it, however, the book is rewarding for what it says about COU and its accomplishments - it did foster a good deal of co-operation, especially in the areas of admissions and graduate planning - but even more for what it says about the relations between COU and the provincial government, and between COU and OCUA, which was caught uncomfortably in the middle between government and the universities but sought at the same time to increase its control over the latter. The context within which COU worked was shaped by the policy of governments after 1970 to heed neither COU nor OCUA when it came to funding. The wealthiest province in Canada came to spend least per capita on higher education, while its governments continued to insist that the institutions must accommodate all qualified applicants. More than once, committees appointed by some government or other reported that either the universities should be expected to do less or should get increased revenue. Governments largely ignored such reports. It is possible to infer that COU did not protest strongly enough against inept government policies, particularly some of those initiated by the NDP between 1990 and 1995, and by the Conservatives after that. However, Monahan is sometimes maddeningly reticent when candour would make for more stimulating reading. Still, the patient reader can learn much from this book about the nature and course of university-government relations in Ontario. [End Page 441] Michiel Horn Michiel Horn, Department of History, York University Copyright © 2006 University of Toronto Press Incorporated

Research Standards for Promotion and Tenure in Information Systems

What constitutes excellence in information systems research for promotion and tenure? This is a question that is regularly addressed by members of promotion and tenure committees and those called upon to write external letters. While there are many elements to this question, one major element is the quality and quantity of an individual's research publications. An informal survey of senior Information Systems faculty members at 49 leading U.S. and Canadian universities found 86 percent to expect three or more articles in elite journals. In contrast, an analysis of publication performance of Ph.D. graduates between the years of 1992 and 2004 found that approximately three individuals in each graduating year of Ph.D.s (about 2 percent) published 3 or more articles in a set of 20 elite journals within 6 years of graduation. Only 15 individuals from each graduating year (11 percent) published one or more articles. As a discipline, we publish elite journal articles at a lower rate than Accounting, yet our promotion and tenure standards are higher, similar to those of Management, Marketing, and Finance. Thus, there is a growing divergence between research performance and research standards within the Information Systems discipline. As such, unless we make major changes, these differences will perpetuate a vicious cycle of increasing faculty turnover, declining influence on university affairs, and lower research productivity. We believe that we must act now to create a new future, and offer recommendations that focus on the use of more appropriate standards for promotion and tenure and ways to increase the number of articles published.

RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY IN FRUIT EXTRACTS

RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY IN FRUIT EXTRACTS

Women and Work

Women and Work