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The 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 MOREMarketing Academia
Do universities need to market themselves? The question has become rhetorical. Universities market themselves extensively and show no sign of pulling back. […]
READ MOREInconvenient Truths
It turns out to be surprisingly easy to make an argument against the obvious. I oppose marketing the university as though it […]
READ MOREWhat Are Universities For
In 1852, John Henry Newman, in one of his discourses on “The Idea of a University”, said “a University is, according to […]
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