Topic: Governance
Access Copyright: University libraries give up on the copyright go-between
Access Copyright is much like the Blockbuster Video of Canadian university libraries. At one time, it seemed indispensable. Today, it’s almost obsolete.
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission
The Last Professors: A eulogy to “the Last Good Job in America”
Frank Donoghue: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham University Press, 2008)
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Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Governance, Performance assessment
Chronicles of Faculty Idealism, Disenchantment, and Resistance
A collection of the recollections and analyses of long-service academics, who have faced the disenchantment many academics feel, could be a valuable resource for dialogue on our campuses.
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Using Culture to Understand How the Academy is Governed
William Tierney’s book, The Impact of Culture on Organizational Decision Making (Stylus 2008), discusses the importance of using a cultural lens on the governance of higher education institutions.
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A university cancels a public lecture by an outspoken academic due to political pressure. A job offer at a prestigious research institute is rescinded in response to the opposition of a large, corporate sponsor. Police arrest demonstrators at a debate on one the flashpoints of regional geo-politics. A decision with far-reaching academic implications is taken with only perfunctory reference to collegial governance. A university’s strategic plan uses the corporate sector as a model, with the aim of maximizing growth, marketability and profit.
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Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission
Grappling with academic capitalism in Canadian universities
With the academic culture changing and managerialism threatening collegiality, can academics defect from “corporatization’’ by defining their knowledge as a public good? A review of: The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher, eds. (UBC Press, 2008)
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Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Governance, Performance assessment, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
“Whose university is it, anyway?” A question we need to keep asking
Whose University Is It, Anyway? Power and Privilege on Gendered Terrain, edited by Anne Wagner, Sandra Acker, and Kimine Mayuzumi (Sumach Press, 2008)
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Bottled up or tapped out: Where have all the water fountains gone?
Water fountains are disappearing on university campuses. Richard Girard and Erika Shaker trace how this is yet another example of the way commercialization and privatization realigns and redefines priorities in our universities.
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Contract faculty, Governance, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?
Debora Rhode. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status and Academic Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Mary Burgan. Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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