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To keep this version, following edits are needed, otherwise it has to be reverted back:

SAS has been described as an "academic sweatshop" and an "abusive institution" by a former faculty member who canvassed the opinions of her colleagues and students for an article in openDemocracy..[18] - This is fine.

This article has been widely discussed in academic circles within Russia and beyond. In these discussions SAS has been criticised for not being open about the fact that it is run by faculty from Skolkovo Management School in Moscow, according to principles derived from soviet-era management guru Georgi Shchedrovitsky. - Not fine. Widely discussed in what way? Seems like it's been discussed by a very small group, who have a conflict of interest.

Skolkovo Management School is a private business school which is involved in training university and corporate management teams across Russia and uses, in its organization of teamwork, elements of Shchedrovitsky methodology.[19] It is said on the Carnegie Moscow Center website that "Shchedrovitsky essentially viewed human beings as machines that must be programed to perform certain functions—essentially, the theory of “social engineering.”[20] - Seems fine.

However, the director of SAS, whose SKOLKOVO affiliation has now been included on his SAS bio in response to criticism that he concealed it, claims he has never been an adept of this management theory, that it only has a limited following at SKOLKOVO and is not nearly as radical as Carnegie center suggests. Although he has never himself been a faculty member in a liberal arts college, he says his vision of education and research was formed as a graduate student at St. Petersburg State University (Russia), at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as during his postdoc years at Columbia University and the University of Sheffield. He has described it as an "anti-human" philosophy in conversation with faculty, and compares it to the methods used in World Series Baseball by the Brad Pitt character in Moneyball. It is a model based on high attrition rates among students and faculty in order to find people willing to suppress their individuality as researchers in conformity with a rigidly abstract formula. - This whole section is without references. How do you know this, except if you have a personal relationship with SAS? If so, there's a conflict of interest.

SAS faculty are generally very unhappy about their jobs, as evidenced by the fact that 75% of the founding cohort left, were fired, or failed to have their contracts renewed in the first three years. - References missing. How do you know this?

However, the dire nature of the academic job market means SAS has a growing body of international faculty (currently representing 12 countries). - Reference to the cause and consequence?

A less critical analysis of SAS has recently been published by a team of Stanford graduate students who interviewed management-approved faculty and administrators under the title "Reimagining Russian Higher Education".[21] - "Less critical", according to whom? Please remove biased language.

Current SAS faculty are contractually prohibited from publicly criticising the school and most have chosen to stay silent about the controversy surrounding it. - Reference?

Those who did speak out did not have their contracts renewed. SAS has internal machinery devoted to cleaning the internet of the kind of critical commentary that is rife on social media;[22][23] - "Rife", based on two social media stories?

posting counterfeit testimonials;[24]- counterfeit, how?

and misleading independent journalism such as the article '"Go big or go home" - My first teaching experience', written for a blog edited by the SAS Education Director, by an adjunct faculty member whom he hired to cover a teacher-shortage created by the school's brutal measures against its own faculty;[25] - Misleading, in what way? Biased language; Reference missing for "hired to cover a teacher-shortage" - this is not said in the source.

or 'A Bold Move in Multidisciplinarity and Academic Hiring' written by a SKOLKOVO employee for University World News.[26] Fine if the previous section is edited too.

-- Jacquelin5624 (talk) 05:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Edit war conflict not resolved. I've taken the page to noticeboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard and reported a suspected conflict of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard