Peking University said in a statement that new party secretary Qiu Shuiping hopes the school can “seize the opportunities in the new era and grow into a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.”

The administration block of Peking University

The wording of the statement issued last week closely reflects language used by the Communist Party under President Xi Jinping, who has been expanding the party’s already broad powers throughout society alongside propaganda drives to retain young people’s loyalty.

Xi, who amended the constitution earlier this year to allow him to rule indefinitely, has also warned against the introduction of liberal political concepts such as universal values into the classrooms of Chinese universities and professors have come under increasing pressure to maintain political correctness at the risk of demotion or dismissal.

Qiu’s lengthy official resume says that from the end of 2013 to the end of 2014, he was party secretary of Beijing’s State Security Bureau. That is the local branch of the ministry responsible for espionage and counterespionage.

Qiu graduated from Peking University in 1983 with a law degree and also served as secretary general of its party youth league branch. After a career in the Beijing party apparatus, he most recently served as a high court judge in the northern province of Shanxi.

Students at Peking University on their graduation

While Chinese now have vastly more power to make individual life decisions than during the days of Mao Zedong, the party maintains decisive power over institutions from schools to banks, corporations to sports federations.

Authorities are wary of campus activism along the lines of 1989’s student-led pro-democracy movement that was crushed by the army and demand strict adherence to party requirements.

Students who speak out on issues from politics to gender equality have been disciplined and in some cases detained or expelled. Cornell University recently suspended two academic exchanges and a research program with Renmin University after a several students from the elite Chinese school were punished for supporting workers’ attempts to form a union in the industrialized south, according to the Financial Times.

Increasingly, young Chinese are opting to study in the United States or other countries and Xi’s own daughter was once a graduate student at Harvard University.

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2013/14 Fellowship in the field of Journalism Innovation for the applicants of United States citizens and citizens of other countries at Harvard University, USA

Study Subject(s):Journalism innovation
Course Level:Fellowship
Scholarship Provider: The Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Center
Scholarship can be taken at: USA

Eligibility:The Nieman-Berkman Fellowship is open to both United States citizens and citizens of other countries. Candidates should either be working journalists or work for a news organization in a business, technology, or leadership capacity. Independent journalists are also welcome to apply.

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The fellowship is a collaboration between two parts of Harvard: the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Both share a set of common interests around journalism, innovation, and the evolution of the digital space. And both have longstanding fellowship programs that give people a year to learn and collaborate with others in the Harvard community.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2013

Read more: Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation, 2013/14 USA : 2012 2013 C

Study journalism innovation at Harvard University

2013/14 Fellowship in the field of Journalism Innovation for the applicants of United States citizens and citizens of other countries at Harvard University, USA

Study Subject(s):Journalism innovation
Course Level:Fellowship
Scholarship Provider: The Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Center
Scholarship can be taken at: USA

Eligibility:The Nieman-Berkman Fellowship is open to both United States citizens and citizens of other countries. Candidates should either be working journalists or work for a news organization in a business, technology, or leadership capacity. Independent journalists are also welcome to apply.

Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The fellowship is a collaboration between two parts of Harvard: the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Both share a set of common interests around journalism, innovation, and the evolution of the digital space. And both have longstanding fellowship programs that give people a year to learn and collaborate with others in the Harvard community.

How to Apply: Online

Scholarship Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2013

Read more: Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation, 2013/14 USA : 2012 2013 C

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The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University’s Center for International Development offers doctoral, post-doctoral, and mid-career fellowships in Sustainability Science.

The fellowships are tenable at the Center for International Development during Harvard’s academic year beginning in September .

Fellowships are available for 10 months (September-May ), 12 months (September -August ), the full semester (September-December ), the spring semester (February-May ), or for two academic years (post-doctoral fellows only) (September -August of the second year).

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development seeks to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that promote sustainable development.

Host Institution(s):

Center for International Development at Harvard University, USA

Fields of study:

Natural and social sciences as well as relevant professions.

Number of Awards:

Each year, the Sustainability Science Program recruits approximately 15-20 fellows to work with one another and with Harvard faculty.

Target group:

Doctoral and post-doctoral students and mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice that advances the goals of the Sustainable Science Program.

Scholarship value/inclusions:

The Sustainability Science Fellowship is based on a 12-month stipend of $48,000 for post-doctoral fellows, $25,000 for doctoral fellows, and a negotiated amount for mid-career fellows depending on their citizenship, current salary, current employment location, seniority, and other sources of support.

Fellows may also obtain funding from their own academic institutions, outside foundations, and personal resources.

Special funding for the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability Science is available to support citizens of Italy or developing countries who are therefore especially encouraged to apply.

Eligibility:

• The Sustainability Science Fellowships are open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice that advances the goals of the program (see above).
• Prospective fellows should have a focused personal research or writing objective that is consistent with those goals.
• applicants should be interested in spending some of their time as fellows in collaborations with other fellows and faculty in the program in ways that will advance the interdisciplinary, problem-driven agenda of sustainability science more broadly.
• Applications for the mid-career fellowships are invited from individuals in governmental, non-governmental, private organizations, or academia with at least five years of professional experience doing work involved in linking science and practice for sustainable development.
• Applications for the post-doctoral fellowships are welcome from recent recipients of the Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
• Applicants for a doctoral fellowship must currently be enrolled in a doctoral program and have passed their qualifying exams (completed coursework and passed oral and/or written exams) by May.
• Applicants whose doctoral programs do not require qualifying exams must have completed all the required coursework for the Ph.D., since fellows will not be doing course work while at Harvard.
• Applications are solicited from individuals working in the natural and social sciences as well as relevant professions.

Decisions will be announced by February of each year.

For More Information and Application, Please Visit; Harvard Fellowships in Sustainability Science Website

Apply for Harvard Fellowships in Sustainability Science

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University’s Center for International Development offers doctoral, post-doctoral, and mid-career fellowships in Sustainability Science.

The fellowships are tenable at the Center for International Development during Harvard’s academic year beginning in September .

Fellowships are available for 10 months (September-May ), 12 months (September -August ), the full semester (September-December ), the spring semester (February-May ), or for two academic years (post-doctoral fellows only) (September -August of the second year).

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development seeks to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that promote sustainable development.

Host Institution(s):

Center for International Development at Harvard University, USA

Fields of study:

Natural and social sciences as well as relevant professions.

Number of Awards:

Each year, the Sustainability Science Program recruits approximately 15-20 fellows to work with one another and with Harvard faculty.

Target group:

Doctoral and post-doctoral students and mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice that advances the goals of the Sustainable Science Program.

Scholarship value/inclusions:

The Sustainability Science Fellowship is based on a 12-month stipend of $48,000 for post-doctoral fellows, $25,000 for doctoral fellows, and a negotiated amount for mid-career fellows depending on their citizenship, current salary, current employment location, seniority, and other sources of support.

Fellows may also obtain funding from their own academic institutions, outside foundations, and personal resources.

Special funding for the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability Science is available to support citizens of Italy or developing countries who are therefore especially encouraged to apply.

Eligibility:

• The Sustainability Science Fellowships are open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice that advances the goals of the program (see above).
• Prospective fellows should have a focused personal research or writing objective that is consistent with those goals.
• applicants should be interested in spending some of their time as fellows in collaborations with other fellows and faculty in the program in ways that will advance the interdisciplinary, problem-driven agenda of sustainability science more broadly.
• Applications for the mid-career fellowships are invited from individuals in governmental, non-governmental, private organizations, or academia with at least five years of professional experience doing work involved in linking science and practice for sustainable development.
• Applications for the post-doctoral fellowships are welcome from recent recipients of the Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
• Applicants for a doctoral fellowship must currently be enrolled in a doctoral program and have passed their qualifying exams (completed coursework and passed oral and/or written exams) by May.
• Applicants whose doctoral programs do not require qualifying exams must have completed all the required coursework for the Ph.D., since fellows will not be doing course work while at Harvard.
• Applications are solicited from individuals working in the natural and social sciences as well as relevant professions.

Decisions will be announced by February of each year.

For More Information and Application, Please Visit; Harvard Fellowships in Sustainability Science Website

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