Topic: Editorials

100 cups of coffee every minute…

It’s an eye-catching stat, but understandable when you consider it refers to the rate of caffeine consumption at the 2013 Congress of […]

Editorials, Politics, Public engagement

Sometimes it feels like we’re standing on a battlefied

Graeme Stewart

Military metaphors are tired, no question. Orwell cautions that we should never use clichés that we are accustomed to seeing in print, […]

Editorials, International issues, Public policy, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

More on bad Ontario/California comparisons

Graeme Stewart

Ken Snowdon has released a paper that echoes our criticisms about Ian Clark’s recent article advocating “California Style”differentiation in Ontario. OCUFA, our […]

Editorials, International issues, Public policy, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

The perils of California Dreamin’ in higher education

Graeme Stewart

Writing in the National Post, Ian Clark argues that emulating California’s higher education system will increase the productivity and efficiency of Ontario’s […]

Editorials, Universities and the academic mission

The November issue of Academic Matters is now live!

Graeme Stewart

The great medieval universities – Paris, Bologna, Oxford – were places far removed from the tribulations of daily life. Under the protection […]

Editorials, Humour

Speak, listen, think, repeat …

Steve Joordens

Hey all, Please allow me to introduce myself! I’m Steve Joordens and, like many of you, I’m afraid I have become addicted […]

Editorials

Luisa D’Amato on Michelle Miller’s ‘Hot for Teacher’

In the latest issue of Academic Matters, Michelle Miller wrote a provocative piece on the politics of student/professor sexual relationships. The article was featured on Inside Higher Ed, and has generated a lot of discussion. Luisa D’Amato wrote a response to the piece in the TheRecord.com. Luisa and The Record have kindly allowed us to reprint it here.

Editorials