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Since the business school accreditation agency AACSB has recently renounced Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (DEI), it is high time that AACSB accredited business schools renounce their accreditations.
Accreditations are questionable in themselves. Expensive, lots of bureaucracy, hardly any noticeable improvements for students or lecturers. Not much substance, mostly a legitimacy facade. I’ve always found cheers about multiple accreditations absurd.
But when global accreditation of business schools immediately abandons DEI standards in anticipatory submission to an authoritarian US president announcing legally questionable decrees, then all the talk of “academic research principles” (p. 57 in the “Guiding Principles and Standards for Business School Accrediation”) is exactly that: just talk.
Read the rest of this entry »I have always found it difficult to understand how nationalists can identify with each other across borders. But of course the oxymoron of “transnational fascism” is not just empty rhetoric, but real. Just recently, for example, German media reported on the Greek party Chrysi Avgi’s contact with German right-wing groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) of Germany – for articles in German click here or here.
The open access Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies has issued a call for papers on fascism as a transnational phenomenon. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcomed. The editor-in-chief Madelon de Keizer is a historian, but the call explicitly invites social and political scientists to contribute to the volume to be published in October. The deadline is June 1, 2013.
(Jiska)
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