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Mathematician/computer scientist/statistician turned social scientist with a focus on international educational development and demography. Critical realist epistemology: facts are constructed, but not out of nothing.

Stale-ish (pulling off the grey melange, and in better cardio shape than at 20) pale-ish (Euro-Arab, “gelernter Österreicher”) male | late-dx ND

Interested in almost everything. Serial monotropist (not always in a good way).

I do not suffer fools. This is not a challenge.

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TIL that the original, as in first and oldest, western university, namely Bologna, was student-run.

According to Wikipedia, students “hired and paid for the teachers [and] ran everything—a fact that often put teachers under great pressure and disadvantage".

Not sure about the right balance between students and faculty running the show, but completely student-run would certainly today’s ⋅administrator-run⋅ shit show, so let's just go back to the roots and take it from there?
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Count Buchla · 10w
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