FreedAn Iranian-American lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley who had been detained in Iran for nearly four months on espionage charges was released on Sunday on bail of approximately $250,000.
Dariush Zahedi, an adjunct faculty member, was arrested last June while visiting family in Iran. He had been held under suspicion of organising student protests because he’d been in Iran for several consecutive summers on dates that coincided with politically charged anniversaries of the 1999 Tehran University protest. Zahedi now is free to leave Iran but will forfeit his bail if he fails to return for a court hearing.
Goldin handshake
Boston University trustees unanimously removed Daniel S. Goldin from the school’s presidency yesterday, paying him $1.8 million to leave before he worked a day. The school’s trustees had chosen former NASA chief Goldin, 63, as the university’s next president, but disputes with the board prompted the school to withdraw its offer. ,,On reflection, I think the board felt that Mr. Goldin might not be a good fit,” board vice chairman Dexter Dodge said. The $1.8 million severance pay for Goldin to stay away represents 40 percent of the $4.5 million in salary Goldin would’ve collected under his five-year contract.
Ombudsman
142 students appealed to the TU’s Ombudsman in 2002, according the Ombudsman’s annual report, published last week. Two difficult to solve problems according to the ombudsman were the slow grading of students’ exams and the issue of smoking in TU buildings. The ombudsman concluded his report with this advice for the Executive Board: ,,The university should adapt itself even more to the growing numbers of foreign students. To do this would be advantageous. We want to be an international university and therefore the minimum standard is that the English language be used for regulations, for academic materials, and by employees of TU help-desks. www.tudelft.nl/ombudsman . . .
Freed
An Iranian-American lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley who had been detained in Iran for nearly four months on espionage charges was released on Sunday on bail of approximately $250,000. Dariush Zahedi, an adjunct faculty member, was arrested last June while visiting family in Iran. He had been held under suspicion of organising student protests because he’d been in Iran for several consecutive summers on dates that coincided with politically charged anniversaries of the 1999 Tehran University protest. Zahedi now is free to leave Iran but will forfeit his bail if he fails to return for a court hearing.
Goldin handshake
Boston University trustees unanimously removed Daniel S. Goldin from the school’s presidency yesterday, paying him $1.8 million to leave before he worked a day. The school’s trustees had chosen former NASA chief Goldin, 63, as the university’s next president, but disputes with the board prompted the school to withdraw its offer. ,,On reflection, I think the board felt that Mr. Goldin might not be a good fit,” board vice chairman Dexter Dodge said. The $1.8 million severance pay for Goldin to stay away represents 40 percent of the $4.5 million in salary Goldin would’ve collected under his five-year contract.
Ombudsman
142 students appealed to the TU’s Ombudsman in 2002, according the Ombudsman’s annual report, published last week. Two difficult to solve problems according to the ombudsman were the slow grading of students’ exams and the issue of smoking in TU buildings. The ombudsman concluded his report with this advice for the Executive Board: ,,The university should adapt itself even more to the growing numbers of foreign students. To do this would be advantageous. We want to be an international university and therefore the minimum standard is that the English language be used for regulations, for academic materials, and by employees of TU help-desks. www.tudelft.nl/ombudsman . . .
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