China Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U.

Chen Guangcheng is one of the purest souls on earth, like Mandela.<p>Many people I know in China are close friends with him.<p>The CCP govt in China has put pressure on NYU, to cancel the visas of professors at NYU Shanghai. (Many US universities are expanding into China with mainland campuses currently).<p>Guangcheng is simply telling the world about the dirty tactics China deploys relentlessly. It&#x27;s not selfish on his part - he doesn&#x27;t have a selfish bone in his body. Indeed, he risks even more of his family getting jailed&#x2F;hurt in China by revealing this news.

From the article: &quot;The university insists that Mr. Chen’s law school fellowship was always meant to be for one year, and those who have worked closely with him in recent months said he understood the time limitations of a financial arrangement that even Mr. Chen acknowledged was extremely generous. The fellowship’s end, Mr. Beckman said, “had nothing to do with the Chinese government — all fellowships come to an end.”<p>It was a fellowship with a finite duration set out beforehand. Not apologizing for the PRC government but this smacks of journalistic sensationalism about nothing.

If what I&#x27;m reading is true, I am absolutely disgusted and appalled.<p>This article reinforces the fact that post secondary academic institutions are 100% business oriented and makes me glad that they didn&#x27;t get more than a year&#x27;s worth of tuition money out of me.

I&#x27;m guessing the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Yes, his fellowship expires in 1 year. And yes, it&#x27;s easier for NYU to expand into China if they let it expire.<p>I&#x27;m going to speculate that if he was on the tenure track, he wouldn&#x27;t be let go over this, however. But since his contract is conveniently expiring, it doesn&#x27;t make much sense to suffer any financial inconvenience for him.

Lots of China-related articles being posted to HN today, from a non-hacker publication.

anything for the grant dollars!

This is just for his own safety &#x2F;sarc.