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Research and innovation, Students, Technology

Cut and Paste Research

Kane X. Faucher

Research and shopping seem to be converging, as students go to their machines to do “research” at the web’s many info-malls.

Politics, Public engagement, Public policy

Journalists and Academics as Public Educators

Michelle Stack

Michelle Stack argues that journalism and academe have much in common, both being networks of knowledge that facilitate the noisy, messy process of democratic conversation.

International issues

The Globalization of Higher Education Media: Where Is It Headed?

Karen MacGregor

In an era of globalization, we need to improve global reporting, argues University World News Editor Karen MacGregor. Will this require more collaboration between higher education and higher education media?

Equity and social justice, Public engagement

Making a Case for Media Engagement

Shari Graydon

Scholars seeking influence should consider the opportunities afforded by the mainstream news media. The voices of academic women are particularly needed.

Corporatization and commercialization, Politics, Teaching and learning

Intellectuals and Democracy

Mark Kingwell

What’s an education for? Philosopher Mark Kingwell analyzes our era’s market-utility responses to this question. He argues, however, that education is about making us better and more engaged citizens, perhaps even better people.

Journals and publishing, Research and innovation

So Where’s the Literature Review?

Ann Rauhala

Ann Rauhala, a former journalist now teaching at Ryerson University, says the worlds of academe and journalism are not quite the two solitudes they seem.

Funding, Participation and enrolment

Is the Teacher-Researcher Faculty Model Just Too Expensive?

Ken Snowdon

The authors of Academic Transformation argue the current faculty model of teaching-research is too costly, short-changes students of variety, and relies excessively on part-time faculty. Does their case stand up to scrutiny?

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Faculty associations

How Influential are Faculty Today? Responses from the Canadian Professoriate

Amy Scott Metcalfe, Donald Fisher, Yves Gingras, Glen A. Jones, Kjell Rubenson, and Iain Snee

How are the pressure to publish or perish, fiscal austerity, and the growing ascendancy of managers combining to affect the influence of faculty on academic life?

Students, Teaching and learning

You Can Lead Students To Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?

Steve Joordens

The psychological defences students have get in the way of learning critical thought. How can university teachers encourage student to confront these defenses?