Monologue-ing Chris

近期亞洲週刊國際版的封面故事專題「世界上最全球化大學」，排出了世界百大院校 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320413/site/newsweek/，有了紙本還未細讀但深怕漏失電子本，先放上剪貼簿來，就是資訊焦慮症發了：

From their student bodies to their research practices, universities are becoming more global. 
Aug. 13, 2006 - In response to the same forces that have propelled the world economy toward global integration, universities have also become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire spectrum of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an inter-connected world and collaborative research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity. To capture these developments, NEWSWEEK devised a ranking of global universities that takes into account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.
We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).

Here is our ranking:

World's Most Global University
1. Harvard University    2. Stanford University    3. Yale University    4. California Institute of Technology    5. University of California at Berkeley    6. University of Cambridge    7. Massachusetts Institute Technology     8. Oxford University    9. University of California at San Francisco    10. Columbia University    11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor    12. University of California at Los Angeles    13. University of Pennsylvania    14. Duke University    15. Princeton Universitty    16. Tokyo University    17. Imperial College London    18. University of Toronto    19. Cornell University    20. University of Chicago    21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich 　22. University of Washington at Seattle    23. University of California at San Diego   24. Johns Hopkins University    25. University College London　26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne    27. University Texas at Austin    28. University of Wisconsin at Madison    29. Kyoto University    30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities    31. University of British Columbia    32. University of Geneva    33. Washington University in St. Louis    34. London School of Economics   35. Northwestern University    36. National University of Singapore    37. University of Pittsburgh    38. Australian National University    39. New York University    40. Pennsylvania State University    41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill    42. McGill University    43. Ecole Polytechnique    44. University of Basel    45. University of Maryland    46. University of Zurich    47. University of Edinburgh    48. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign    49. University of Bristol    50. University of Sydney    51. University of Colorado at Boulder    52. Utrecht University    53. University of Melbourne    54. University of Southern California    55. University of Alberta    56. Brown University    57. Osaka University    58. University of Manchester    59. University of California at Santa Barbara    60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology    61. Wageningen University    62. Michigan State University    63. University of Munich    64. University of New South Wales    65. Boston University    66. Vanderbilt University    67. University of Rochester    68. Tohoku University    69. University of Hong Kong    70. University of Sheffield    71. Nanyang Technological University    72. University of Vienna    73. Monash University    74. University of Nottingham    75. Carnegie Mellon University    76. Lund University    77. Texas A&M University    78. University of Western Australia    79. Ecole Normale Super Paris    80. University of Virginia    81. Technical University of Munich    82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem    83. Leiden University    84. University of Waterloo    85. King's College London    86. Purdue University    87. University of Birmingham    88. Uppsala University    89. University of Amsterdam    90. University of Heidelberg    91. University of Queensland    92. University of Leuven    93. Emory University    94. Nagoya University    95. Case Western Reserve University    96. Chinese University of Hong Kong    97. University of Newcastle    98. Innsbruck University    99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst    100. Sussex University
© 2006 Newsweek, Inc.

而我也突然開始思考（是開始而已），現在手上的evaluation & accreditation，到時候會保守先進衝突紛擾而多麼地滿島（腥）風（血）雨？而這由主流媒體製造雖不像從前僅是排名，而以主題式（the most global、the most international、the most popular with international employers）的排名引起的話題與討論，和那研究、教學實質的評鑑與認可與排名的正當與權威性，唉唷，是要這一段那一句地一直念下去的。在等著RAE 2008，傻子般；但就像跟 Melody 要了 Sonia 電話不敢妄打，又坦承 proposal 不敢妄動、寫不出半字，是一樣地紊亂。說終極關懷和問題意識都回來的那時，那個許多年後又終於欣然遇見的一個自稱女性主義者的女孩，我希望妳先行，我極其遲緩地踽踽獨行，但終將與妳在那疆域再交會。又，就像對自掰論述幻想瘋魔般又開始一樣，我往花生醬裡睡去。

睡前偷笑了一下，呃，泛泛小卒怎能不被國際主流媒體一個把不理石頭排在世界第四十九名全球化大學而竊喜呢？