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When next year’ s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face
When next year’ s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face
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2014-11-24
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问题
When next year’ s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face : Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost(教务长)of Yale , who’ll become Oxford’ s vice-chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in America.
Hamilton isn’ t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, it’ s gone global. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America.
The chief reason is that American schools don ’ t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’ s budget. "We didn ’ t do any global consideration," says Patricia Hayes, the board ’ s chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents; fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since U. S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student number. The decline in government support has made funding-raising an increasing necessary ability among administrators and has hiring committees hungry for Americans.
In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003 , when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen " a major strengthening of Yale’ s financial position. "
Of course, fund-raising isn’ t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.
What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the passage?
选项
A、Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U. S.
B、A lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators.
C、American universities are enrolling more international students.
D、University presidents are paying more attention to funding-raising.
答案
A
解析
主旨题。根据题干中的discussed in the passage可知,本题考查文章的主旨,故将本题答案出处定位到全文。文章前两段通过英国牛津大学、法国等事例说明世界上的许多大学倾向于从美国招聘校长,接下来的段落分析这种趋势产生的原因。由此不难看出,本文主要讨论的是世界范围内的许多大学都从美国招聘校长,故A项为正确答案。
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