Rudolf Richter, University of Vienna Yes, universities in Austria are in a crisis. The crisis is first a financial one and mainly due to investment in the banking system rather than higher education. Second, they are in a crisis because their democratic and empowering tradition has been broken. Third, they are in a crisis because [...]

Christian Fleck, University of Graz Let me start with kind of a disclaimer: What the reader will find below is not only, and obviously, the opinion of a single person; it is also a maverick’s view. Most of my Austrian academic colleagues won’t agree with my analysis but my sociological ambition is even to explain [...]