November 2012

Anger and the Academy

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Humour, Technology

“Hello, Professor Penfold? It’s the fiscal crisis calling.”

Steve Penfold

By the time this column is published, I will have no telephone in my office. It turns out that phones are really […]

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Equity and social justice, Tuition and student fees

“Ensemble, bloquons la hausse”: The Rationale Behind the Slogan

Martin Robert

In the spring of 2012 hundreds of thousands of Quebec students and their allies took to the streets to protest the government’s proposed tuition fee increase. Martin Robert makes the case against the tuition increase and proposes an alternative model in which tuition would be free in Quebec.

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Equity and social justice, Tuition and student fees

Equality of Opportunity, Equality of Means: An Argument for Low Tuition and the Student Strike

Daniel Weinstock

Read Jacob T. Levy’s take on this issue here. Political philosophers have taken in recent years to distinguishing between “ideal theory” and […]

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Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, International issues, Students

Not Another Brick in the Wall: Capitalism and Student Protests in Chile

Andrés Bernasconi

A few days ago, I visited a high school in a poor urban area in Western Santiago and met with the junior […]

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Academic freedom, Equity and social justice, Universities and the academic mission

The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Universities

Ken Coates

The remarkable—a word that can be read in many different ways—2012 student protests in Quebec have stirred memories of the activist campuses […]

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