Opinion
Against a sea of troubles
Piracy has been a scourge from the earliest days of the printing press, but are today’s cures worse than the disease? A review essay of Adrian Johns’ Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Piracy has been a scourge from the earliest days of the printing press, but are today’s cures worse than the disease?
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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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The Big Five Proposal: Why We Shouldn’t Pick Winners
Just over a year ago, a debate emerged in Canada over the so-called “Big Five” proposal for Canadian universities. While it succeeded […]
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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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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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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Students, Universities and the academic mission
Definitely not for loss
Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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