Sentence examples for disrupt universities from inspiring English sources

MinuteMan from Boston asks about whether MOOCs will "replace" public schools and "disrupt" universities, while Andrew Kahr of Cebu asks why accredited universities aren't offering MOOCs for course credit and degrees, rather than turning this over to the for-profit MOOCs.

"The university is committed to a freedom of expression policy that recognises the right of all members of the AUC community to express their views as they wish, as long as they do not do so in such a way as to disrupt university activities or damage university property," wrote Anderson in an email to all staff and students earlier this week.

A recent piece in The Nation makes a number of strong counter arguments, including the basic fact that climate change already disrupts university operations.

Software failures and a shortage of markers meant that last summer's A-level results came dangerously close to missing crucial publishing deadlines, which would have disrupted university admissions and clearing for hundreds of thousands of students.

He added that the Administration's proposal would "protect national security without disrupting university research that is critical to our long-term economic national security, and that the proposals are intended to ensure that the world's best talent can participate openly in that research".

Starbucks has offered to help pay for its staff to take online degrees with Arizona State University.MOOCs will disrupt different universities in different ways.

Thus the rise of massive open online courses (moocs) has been narrated without much reference to the shrinking budgets of universities: no, the mooc-mania was just the natural result of Silicon Valley's embrace of innovation – hackers-turned-entrepreneurs have come to "disrupt" the universities the way they have disrupted music or journalism.

In 1964, the Berkeley division of the Academic Senate voted to bar the university from restricting political advocacy on campus as long at it did not interfere with classes or disrupt the university's operations.

A single protesting student can disrupt a university meeting, two can shut down a chancellery, a group can close a campus.

Protests and strikes, and violence amongst police, students and political groups frequently disrupt public university campuses.

"The idea is to disrupt the university until it operates in a way that's safe for students," he said.