F. King Alexander and Kern Alexander, eds. The University: International Expectations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Round Table, a group of ardent imperialists shaped by Lord Milner in South Africa in 1909 and later exported to other parts of the British Empire, seems to have faded away.But a new Round Table has emerged with links to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Kern Alexander, one of the editors of this book, is a professor of educational administration.He is also Director of the (new) Oxford Round Table .Members of the old Milner-influenced Round Table, a self-chosen group of reasonably powerful men, worked fervently, especially between the two world wars, to bolster the influence of the British Empire and incidentally their own selfimportance and careers.However, according to Leonie Foster, the historian of the Australian version of this Round Table, it simply did not occur to members of the society to invite women to join them, a tradition of neglect that is continued by this book, which has no women authors.The Oxford Round Table, a discussion group convened in 1989 at Oxford University originally to consider issues in present-day educational issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other selected countries, has now given itself a wider warrant: it also considers matters related to human rights, law, economics, public finance, and politics.Clearly it is neither reticent nor lacking in ambition.The University: International Expectations, a product of Oxford Round Table, ranges over universities in five English-speaking countries, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States, to take these countries in the order in which they appear in the book.No editorial attempt is made to dictate or to elucidate common themes, so that the book covers a variety of issues without seeking to impose a unity that the variety of topics and authorial approaches might have made tendentious.Kern Alexander opens the book with a somewhat lumbering discussion of "the object of the university" in which he decides to do without John Henry Newman's ideas.His conclusion -that public universities should advance the ideal of interdependence and commonality within and among nations and states and "arm humankind in its struggle against the natural primitive instincts of the Hobbesian state of nature" while glorifying and honouring the common interest and common weal -suggests that Alexander would have been wiser if he had enlisted Newman's assistance.Other contributions have a tougher intellectual tone.Michael Beloff considers the possible impact of Britain's Human Rights Act
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".