Unanswered Questions
40 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Comprehensive document on the history of the university system
As an aspiring academic, I have been thinking a lot about why I want to be a university faculty, what my job is as a graduate student, and what role the academic community serves in the society-at-...
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Articles about different types of colleges and universities, from math faculty perspective
I'm looking for an article, web site, book chapter, whatever, that I can share with some math graduate students so that they can read and learn a little about some of the different types of colleges ...
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My university is forcing me to take required classes at a different campus, which will be very expensive to me. Do I have any recourse?
I am a 4th year undergraduate physics major. At the beginning of my college career, I made a spreadsheet showing which classes I would take each semester. My advisor told me every semester that the ...
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Is/was there a final university examination where the student was required to write down everything they knew about the subject (e.g. History)?
In about 1990, I heard that in Japan, after completing a History bachelor's degree course of several years duration, the student was required to write down everything they knew about History. It would ...
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Can I transfer to a university in Europe from Turkey?
Currently, I am studying at METU (ODTÜ) Computer Engineering/Science, Bachelor's Degree. I am not happy with the situation here. My department is ABET-accredited, but I am a non-EU citizen. Is it ...
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Dis-/advantages for faculty position in private vs public university hospitals in Germany
In Germany, several private medical universities (e.g. MSH Medical School Hamburg) have formed and partnered with companies such as Helios and alike running the hospitals. Looking for a new senior ...
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How does one use the Chegg bulk-takedown request form?
Cheating in online tests has accelerated and become rampant this year. I'm in the U.S. and my institution has had all-online courses from March 2020 to at least September 2021. Many of my test ...
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Are there cases when UoPeople degrees are not accepted?
UoPeople (University of the People) is an extremely non-expensive (because it is a non-profit organization and is run mainly on donations and volunteer work) online university offering several ...
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Undergraduate Research as an Irregular Student
I am currently a Japanese college student. I am going to do research in artificial intelligence from this April.
After completing the first year of research, I am planning to go to the United States ...
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is it normal to work as an university professor in engineering but have no real professional experience (in the industry)?
I work as a university assistant professor, I teach engineering-related subjects.
However, I have no real professional experience in engineering (in the industry), I've never worked as an engineer or ...
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Why can the same person sit on the boards of trustees of multiple schools? Has this caused problems?
I was reading this dude's Wikipedia page and it caught my attention that he seems to have served on the boards of both Chapman University and Caltech. Although his status on Chapman's board of ...
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Can I reapply for a master's degree If I already failed a master's degree?
I heard that if you fail a master's degree, you'll have a tough time reapplying for another one. Is that true? I had a really bad experience with the one I'm doing currently (Artificial Intelligence ...
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How to accurately check for cause of plagiarism for programming assignments with online content
I heard that most of the code plagiarism checkers use MOSS for evaluation. But MOSS doesn't check for any content in GitHub or present on the internet. How do we exactly tackle the problem of checking ...
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How to convert percentage (Indian) grade to German grades
What is the exact procedure for converting percentage grade to the german grading system. As of now what I understand is that the conversion is done by the modified bavarian formula. Is the average ...
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Dr. rer. med Title
The doctorate title "Dr. rer. med" is awarded to non-medical postgraduate researchers from University Hospitals.
Is it equivalent to a PhD, or Dr. Eng. etc.?
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