Topic: International issues
Going Global? A Guide to the Twists and Turns of Global Mobility in Higher Education
A review essay of Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility (IIE Books, 2009)
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A time to teach: Reflections upon pedagogy in the life of a graduate student
Does the dearth of pedagogical training and awareness and too-heavy overburdened workloads contribute to culture of “antipedagogy” on campus?
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The University: Punctuated by Paradox
Old/new, engaged/separate, public/private, elite/mass-oriented, national/global. But for universities, Simon Marginson argues, paradox is vital.
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Higher Education or Education for Hire? Corporatization and the Threat to Democratic Thinking
Teaching critical thinking is the university’s democratic mission, argues the University of Ottawa’s Joel Westheimer, and today’s universities are failing to deliver. Universities need to reverse the trend that has them focusing on workforce preparation and the commercialization of knowledge and resurrect higher education’s public purpose.
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Class Warriors
Professor William Ayers, banned last year from speaking at the University of Nebraska, argues that the current trend towards “academic capitalism” gives faculty the moment to speak up – and act up.
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The Academic P3 and the University as Virtual Enterprise
In business, writes McMaster University’s Marc Ouellette, the virtual enterprise reduces competition while increasing standardization, an outcome antithetical to academic excellence. But the model is upon us, and that has implications for faculty.
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Reflections of a Mid-Career Student
With a doctorate in genetics and plant breeding, I had been working in India as an assistant professor and a scientist in […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Intellectual property, International issues, Public policy, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Disentangling university research policies
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney (editors). Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government – University Relations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. David D. Dill and Frans A. Van Vught (editors). National Innovation and the Academic Research Enterprise: Public Policy in Global Perspective. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
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Are physician-scientists a vanishing breed?
Their research builds on the lived experience of patients and the ethical issues created by patient care in a complex, highly technological medical system. What is needed to save them? Andrew. L. Shafer, Vanishing Physician-Scientist? (Cornell University Press, 2009)
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