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...late. But dealing with academic matters and student discipline often involves putting students on probation or encouraging them to take time off. This is weighty business that has a profound impact on the lives of the students on which the Ad Board passes judgment. And yet, unlike at many peer institutions, the Board does not have any student representatives.This is problematic because students can often provide a valuable new perspective, because they better understand the strains and stresses acting upon their peers than faculty or administrators. Being judged by one’s peers also adds an air of legitimacy?...
Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPAs), sporting trendy new baby blue hoodies, rewarded participants with a new Nalgene adorned with Harvard drinking statistics on the back...
...That’s three ways we pay for the same research, writing, proofreading, and peer review. Even Harvard has found the cost too high, and has cut down on its subscriptions...
...Other researchers, in fields from philosophy to biology, have gone further still, setting up new peer-reviewed journals founded on open access. Among these are top journals in some fields, including the Journal of Machine Learning Research founded at MIT and flagship journals PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine of the Public Library of Science led by Nobel laureate and former National Institute of Health director Harold Varmus. A handful (like the PLoS journals) are funded from their authors’ research grants; the rest operate on minimal university or foundation subsidies or even on no budget at all?...
...their own: Even before submitting to a journal, they make all of their work freely available at the repository www.arxiv.org, providing inestimable benefits to the rapid communication of one result and advancement to the next. Similarly, computer scientists almost universally put their papers on their personal, school-based websites. Peer review is as important as ever—nobody gets credit for work that doesn’t pass that scrutiny—but as these scientists have discovered, it doesn’t have to get in the way of open access...