With this issue, my editorship of Academic Matters comes to a close. Endings also herald new directions as the editorship passes to […]
READ MOREThere’s little point in adopting a reactionary approach to the pervasive use of social media on campus. Members of the university community are deciding how social media works on campus, and they will work through the problems as they arise.
READ MORELabour arbitrators recognize there’s an important social component to academic life, within limits. Labour-side lawyer Cynthia Petersen reviews Canadian arbitral jurisprudence and how arbitrators have decided in thorny cases involving sexual harassment.
READ MORESexual harassment policies assume that teachers have power and students don’t, argues Michelle Miller. Such policies risk outlawing consensual relationships that are “delicious, frightening, unruly” and just might reflect the excitement, even eroticism, of learning.
READ MOREThe nature of the current push to police the lives of professors and students provides a salutary lesson about unintended consequences.
READ MOREMedia and higher education do not inhabit two solitudes. As underscored in this issue, media and academia co-exist, albeit somewhat uncomfortably. They […]
READ MOREI knew I was in trouble when I considered becoming a public intellectual. Maybe it was all those university seminars on media […]
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