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发帖数: 1 | 1 No, I won’t start spying on my foreign-born students
By Lee C. Bollinger August 30 at 2:16 PM
Lee C. Bollinger is president of Columbia University and co-editor, with
Geoffrey R. Stone, of “The Free Speech Century.”
The FBI has stepped up its scrutiny of research practices at college and
university campuses — including mine.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies determined to thwart the illegal
transfer of intellectual property to foreign rivals are encouraging U.S.
academics and administrators to develop more robust protocols for monitoring
foreign-born students and visiting scholars — particularly if they are
ethnically Chinese.
With students returning to campus, these policing attempts thrust economic
and political concerns into fierce conflict with First Amendment freedoms.
To be sure, government-funded academic research in such national security
realms as cybersecurity and bioterrorism is justifiably sensitive. Likewise,
academic research conducted in collaboration with U.S. companies — a
principal target of most unlawful technology transfers — leads to
commercial innovations that warrant protections. Universities have an
obligation to comply with existing security protocols, identify sensible
ways to bolster them, and cooperate fully with law enforcement authorities
and corporate research partners if clear acts of espionage are suspected. To
the extent we are falling short in any of these areas — and yes, there
have been isolated incidents of academics sharing sensitive intellectual
property with foreign governments — we can and must do better.
At the same time, however, only a fraction of the research conducted on
campus is “secret.” Indeed, the reality is just the opposite. Academic
research is intended to be shared — released into the public domain to
advance human progress. Groundbreaking medical discoveries, agricultural
innovations credited with saving billions of people worldwide from
starvation, the Internet, artificial intelligence: All are the result of
publicly available, university-based research.
Consequently, a foreign national need not fly halfway around the world to “
infiltrate” our great universities and learn about our latest insights and
findings: With some notable exceptions, she can type words into a search
engine and peruse peer-reviewed academic journals from the comfort of an
office or dorm room overseas. Or, similarly, she can visit the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office’s website, where applications for patent protection
provide detailed descriptions of recent innovations.
And so, most worrisome to me, as someone who has spent five decades
advocating freedom of expression and assembly, is the notion that university
personnel — and perhaps students themselves — should be asked to monitor
the movements of foreign-born students and colleagues. This is antithetical
to who we are.
The mission of a university is to foster an open atmosphere conducive to
speculation, experimentation and creation. American higher education is the
envy of the world not in spite of, but because of, its unrivaled commitment
to openness and diversity. Attracting — and welcoming — the brightest
minds in the world, regardless of nationality or country of origin, is what
we’re all about.
To put it another way, the U.S. university model is a strategic advantage,
not a hindrance to American competitiveness. Our administrators, professors
and research scholars are not, and should not become, an arm of U.S. law
enforcement. Ironically, what the FBI apparently considers our great
vulnerability is, in my view, our greatest strength.
At Columbia University, where I am president, thousands of students and
faculty represent more than 150 countries. We stewards of major research
universities couldn’t contain intellectual freedom even if we wanted to.
The incompatibility of university culture with systematic scrutiny may
explain why even law enforcement officials who have visited our campus have
offered little prescriptive guidance, instead offering that we should be
vigilant.
The unauthorized use of intellectual property by overseas competitors is a
serious problem. But the surveillance of foreign-born scholars in this
country is the wrong solution. If law enforcement agencies have legitimate
concerns, it seems to me that they should identify and monitor those they
designate as “suspicious people” based on real threats, not broad worries
about entire nationalities.
A more effective approach — advocated by many of my colleagues in higher
education as well as the bipartisan Commission on the Theft of American
Intellectual Property — is to expand the number of green cards awarded to
foreign-born graduates of our great colleges and universities. Many of these
international scholars, especially in the fields of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, would, if permitted, prefer to remain in the
United States and work for U.S.-based companies after graduation, where they
could also contribute to the United States’ economic growth and prosperity
. But under the present rules, when their academic studies are completed, we
make it difficult for them to stay. They return to their countries with the
extraordinary knowledge they acquired here, which can inform future
commercial strategies deployed against U.S. competitors.
The mandate of our colleges and universities is to pursue open, robust
inquiry across a wide range of topics. Our institutions of higher learning
should do more — not less — of what made the United States the most
innovative nation in the history of the world. | g******t
发帖数: 11249 | 2 等着赚外国学生的钱呢
monitoring
【在 g**********1 的大作中提到】
: No, I won’t start spying on my foreign-born students
: By Lee C. Bollinger August 30 at 2:16 PM
: Lee C. Bollinger is president of Columbia University and co-editor, with
: Geoffrey R. Stone, of “The Free Speech Century.”
: The FBI has stepped up its scrutiny of research practices at college and
: university campuses — including mine.
: Law enforcement and intelligence agencies determined to thwart the illegal
: transfer of intellectual property to foreign rivals are encouraging U.S.
: academics and administrators to develop more robust protocols for monitoring
: foreign-born students and visiting scholars — particularly if they are
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发帖数: 1 | 3 你这个人思维非常市侩啊。
【在 g******t 的大作中提到】
: 等着赚外国学生的钱呢
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: monitoring
| g******t
发帖数: 11249 | 4 美国人不都这样么
虽然高调唱得很好听
【在 g**********1 的大作中提到】
: 你这个人思维非常市侩啊。
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