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Oxford University/University of Oxford


Self Description

March 2002: "Oxford is a unique and historic institution. As the oldest English-speaking university in the world, it lays claim to eight centuries of continuous existence....the years since the war, Oxford has added to its humanistic core a major new research capacity in the natural and applied sciences, including medicine. In so doing, it has enhanced and strengthened its traditional role as a focus for learning and a forum for intellectual debate." http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/history.shtml

Third-Party Descriptions

February 2011: 'Such an approach is unlikely to attract much support in Britain, where A-levels, written exams normally taken at the end of the final two years of high school, are an object of national fascination. At Oxford and Cambridge, A grades in three subjects are normally seen as a prerequisite for an applicant to be considered. A spokeswoman for Oxford said: “36,000 students got three A’s last year. Of those 17,000 applied to Oxford. We have 3,000 places.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/education/07iht-educLede.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Organization Aug 29, 2006
Cooperation (past or present) Oxford Union Organization Nov 29, 2007
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Oxford University Press Organization Apr 17, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Michael S. Barr Esq., MPhil, Ph.D. Person Jul 24, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Peter Beinart Person Aug 10, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Daniel A. Bell Ph.D. Person Sep 8, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Adm. Dennis "Denny" C. Blair Person Jan 31, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Steven M. Block Person Oct 14, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Justice Stephen G. Breyer Person Dec 21, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Brian S. Brown Person Dec 11, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alan Bullock Ph.D. Person Jun 24, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) General Wesley "Wes" Clark Person Jun 12, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul Collier Person May 20, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Richard Cordray Esq. Person Jan 31, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Roger Crisp Person Mar 20, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. William Cronon Ph.D. Person Apr 3, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Richard Dawkins Person Jan 9, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. J. R. DeShazo Ph.D. Person Jul 17, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Ronald Dworkin Ph.D. Person Jun 23, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Alex Edmans Person Jun 23, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Daniel C. Esty J.D., MA Person Jan 9, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sen. Russell "Russ" D. Feingold Esq. Person Jan 9, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Charles Fried Esq. Person Sep 20, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Peter W. Galbraith Person Jun 26, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Zoe Galland Person Jun 6, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Atul Gawande M.D.,M.P.H. Person Sep 14, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Rose George Person May 11, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jim Giles Person Feb 2, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Person Nov 29, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Robert J. Gordon Ph.D. Person May 31, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jonathan L. Hafetz J.D., MS Person Oct 31, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. J.B.S. Haldane Person Sep 10, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Herbert "H." L. A. Hart Person Jul 1, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Christopher Hitchens Person Jan 10, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Bruce Hoffman Ph.D. Person Jun 20, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jennifer Hornsby Ph.D. Person Jun 27, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Sir Michael Howard Person Apr 1, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mr. Walter Isaacson Person Nov 30, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Bobby Jindal Person Oct 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Olivia Judson Ph.D. Person May 16, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Justice Elena Kagan Esq. Person May 18, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Kris W. Kobach Esq. Person Dec 20, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Harold Hongju Koh Esq. Person May 14, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jeffrey T. Leeds Esq. Person Dec 18, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jonah Lehrer Person May 8, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Richard C. Levin Person Jul 12, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) C. S. Lewis Person Feb 10, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mr. M. Stuart Lynn Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) James "Jim" Andrew Miller MBA, M. Litt. Person Jul 16, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Tristana Moore Person Oct 29, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Juan E. Méndez Esq. Person Jul 14, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Robert Nozick Person Nov 22, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Frank Pasquale Esq. M.Phil. Person Aug 9, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Trevor Potter Esq. Person Oct 20, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Adrian Raine Ph.D. Person Mar 3, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Franklin D. Raines Esq. Person Jun 17, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Robert B. Reich Ph.D. Person Sep 7, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Ambassador Susan E. Rice Ph.D. Person Jun 17, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Michael Sandel Person Oct 5, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Paul Spyros Sarbanes Esq. Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Noam Scheiber Person Nov 11, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Catherine M. Sharkey Esq. Person Mar 11, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Gene Sharp Ph.D. Person Jun 24, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Donald "Don" Siegelman Esq. Person Mar 13, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Vernon Silver Person Mar 9, 2013
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Timothy Snyder Ph.D. Person Jun 3, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Justice David Hackett Souter Person Dec 21, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. David Spiegelhalter Person Oct 25, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jason Stanley Ph.D. Person Jun 27, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) George Stephanopoulos Person Sep 24, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Bryan Sykes Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sir John Templeton Person Mar 1, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) J. R. R. Tolkien Person Feb 10, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Admiral Stansfield Turner M.A. Person Jan 16, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Timothy "Tim" Winter Ph.D. Person May 5, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Naomi Wolf Person Jan 25, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Kenji Yoshino Esq. Person Nov 10, 2008

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Feb 06, 2011 Elite Institutions are Tested on Diversity

QUOTE: Taken together the reports paint a picture of elite institutions struggling to adapt to the modern world in a country where universities still depend on the government for most of their funding — and where the independent Office for Fair Access is supposed to make sure that any university wishing to charge the new £9,000, or $15,000, a year maximum tuition has made sufficient progress in encouraging participation by low-income and other under-represented groups.

 New York Times
Nov 27, 2007 Protests Greet Far-Right Speakers at Oxford

QUOTE: The protest followed weeks of controversy surrounding the student organizers’ decision to give a platform to David Irving, a historian specializing in Hitler’s Germany who was released late last year after serving 13 months of a three-year prison term imposed in Austria for speeches denying that the Nazis exterminated six millions Jews.

 New York Times
May 18, 2007 Net Censorship on the Rise: Twenty-five out of 41 governments studied block or filter Net content, says a survey by the university-backed OpenNet Initiative (ONI)

QUOTE: Twenty-five out of 41 governments studied block or filter internet content, according to a survey carried out by OpenNet Initiative (ONI), which is made up of groups at Cambridge University, Harvard Law School, Oxford University and the University of Toronto. This compares to just a few countries filtering content five years ago, said the researchers. The governments are not just blocking websites but also services and applications such as Google Maps or Skype.

 BusinessWeek
Aug 29, 2006 Times Withholds Web Article in Britain

QUOTE: In adapting technology intended for targeted advertising to keep the article out of Britain, The Times addressed one of the concerns of news organizations publishing online: how to avoid running afoul of local publishing laws...“It’s never a happy choice to deny any reader a story,” said Jill Abramson,“But this was preferable to not having it on the Web at all.”

 New York Times
Jan 01, 1999 Sex and Social Justice

QUOTE: The feminism defended here has five salient features: it is internationalist, humanist, liberal, concerned with the social shaping of preference and desire, and, finally, concerned with sympathetic understanding[…] Among the advantages of the combination is an opportunity to link feminist inquiry closely to the progress that has been made during the past few decades in articulating the elements of a theory of both national and global justice.

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