Topic: Equity and social justice

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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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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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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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, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning

Lost in Translation after Graduation?

Pamela Cushing, Ph.D. & Kimberly Ruiter, B.A., King’s University College at Western University

What students do after leaving the academy can be impressive, surprising, and, as one department found out, useful for universities interested in improving the student experience.

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Equity and social justice, International issues, Public policy

A Political Pedagogy, or In Lieu of Dismantling the University

Tyrell Haberkorn

How does the ongoing constriction of academic freedom reverberate in the classroom? If academics cannot take a stand without risking formal or subtle censure, and so choose not to risk, how can we ask students to?

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Equity and social justice, Health and safety

False allegations of sexual harassment: Misunderstandings and realities

Catherine Burr

Since sexual harassment can be in the eye of the beholder, only evidence that meets civil standards of proof, argues a university complaints investigator, can fairly decide what happened.

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