Topic: Universities and the academic mission
Fear and loathing in the academy
Self-centeredness is the core of organizational politics in the university. The antidote for fear and loathing in the academy is a pedagogy of engagement, which means consideration for others.
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Plus ça change? Education in the Enlightenment and Now
Stephen Bygrave, Uses of Education: Reading in Enlightenment in England (Bucknell, 2009) and Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin, eds, Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Ashgate, 2009).
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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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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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Ethics of Knowledge: Education, Trans-Disciplinarity and Subjectivity
While the specific practices of art schools concern the author, the lessons should concern any academic who questions the ethics of knowledge production, transmission, and application. A review of Steven H. Madoff, ed ., Art School:Propositions for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2009)
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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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Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Research and innovation, Technology, Universities and the academic mission
The entrepreneurial university
A look at some institutions are coping with having to balance their traditional commitment to learning, basic research and community outreach with a demanding technology transfer mission. Roger L. Geiger and Creso Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2009)
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Equity and social justice, International issues, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A fresh look at what counts towards student access and success
Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher, eds., Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
The greater good of higher education
A review of Walter W. McMahon, Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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International issues, Performance assessment, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A policy maker’s handbook
Richardson, R. and Martinez, M., Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases Across State Systems (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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