The populist challenge for universities

Editorials

Editorial Matters: The comforts of common sense

Ben Lewis

“Keep hold of a few plain truths, and make everything square with them. When I was young … there never was any […]

Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement, Students

The university in the populist age

Steven Tufts and Mark Thomas

Right-wing populism threatens the future of higher education, but remaining passive and retreating to a disinterested vision of the university will actually […]

Politics, Public engagement

Trump, Brexit, and the academy

Peter Scott

There is some truth in the populist attack that the academy has sold-out to corporate interests and become inaccessible to many. Universities […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement

A populist wake-up call for universities

Mark Kingwell

For many, universities do not represent opportunity or self-realization, but instead elite self-regard and academic exchanges in which they see no relevance. […]

International issues, Politics, Public engagement, Students

International students and Canada’s future on the right

Grace Karram Stephenson

Populist and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and UK means that more international students are coming to study at postsecondary institutions in […]

Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Politics, Public engagement

Canada’s university administrators must pay attention to right-wing activism on campuses

Steven Zhou

The surge in racism on university campuses is part of a broader right-wing awakening across the country. University administrators must counter these […]

International issues, Politics, Public engagement

Global higher education, social solidarity, and the new nationalism

Simon Marginson

Higher education serves both national and global interests in the pursuit of knowledge and student learning. Given populism’s nationalist roots, there is […]