Print Articles
Why Tenure Has No Future
Academic tenure as we have known has become largely irrelevant but is so unpopular that it does serious harm to the professoriate […]
READ MOREThe case for tenure
What is it about tenure that gets some people so upset? That it grants certain employees a security not available to others? […]
READ MOREThe ethical challenges in academia
In Illinois, state ethics legislation requires all public employees, including university faculty, to participate in ethics training and to be examined annually […]
READ MOREAcademia and the good life: Just so last millennium
I always thought academia would mean more liquid lunches. As a child, the great god television taught me that professors spend their […]
READ MOREThe Disappeared
Kin Echlin’s third novel is an inaugural title in Penguin Canada’s new literary imprint, Hamish Hamilton, and has been sold in 17 […]
READ MOREHow to Save the University
A review essay of Stanley Fish’s, Save the World on Your Own Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). “Neither the university […]
READ MOREEquity, ethics, academic freedom and the employment of contingent academics
The recent York University strike by contingent faculty has provided a focal point for discussion in my evening graduate course, “Faculty in […]
READ MOREAcademics in Politics
The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago’s law school. That makes […]
READ MOREMedical publishing and the drug industry: IS MEDICAL SCIENCE FOR SALE?
Observation #1 I recently looked at the c.v. of a distinguished professor of medicine and saw that he had authored (most usually […]
READ MORE
