May 4, 2007

Moscow State Backs Student Complaints

By BRYON MACWILLIAMS

A special commission has found that educational quality is lacking in Moscow State University's sociology department, handing a victory to students who protested to sociologists worldwide that the dean was more concerned with power than scholarship.

The findings were made public in April in an order from the university's rector, who wrote that the students' claims not only had merit, but also that the dean must take a series of steps to involve young instructors and to improve the

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