For instance, outside Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 30, one speaker who said he represented academics and union leaders told a crowd of demonstrators that "We are here to tell the N.Y.P.D. we are watching".
The male moderator, with a panel of female scientists, promptly informed us at the beginning of the session that he was there to represent academic research (the rest of the panel were representatives of other possible careers) and that "women tend to not last in academia".
Their comments represent academic snobbery of the worst kind.
The president of the university's UCU branch, Mike Sheaff, said: "As the union representing academic staff, we do not accept the proposal for over 100 academic staff redundancies".
David Prosser, executive director of Research Libraries UK, which represents academic libraries, welcomed the plans in principle and said the details of their implementation would be crucial.
Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University College Union, which represents academic and other college staff, said the government failed to police the system it had created.
The trade union that represents academic staff claims that up to 30 universities could close with the loss of 14,000 jobs.
In late 2008, Big Data was embraced by a group of the nation's leading computer science researchers, the Computing Community Consortium, a collaboration of the government's National Science Foundation and the Computing Research Association, which represents academic and corporate researchers.
"We have said for many years that the salaries and benefits of vice-chancellors are completely out of control, especially when compared with the pay settlements given to university staff who have seen their pay cut substantially in real terms since 2009," said Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, which represents academic staff.
