Reviews
Book review: Open Minds explores how academic freedom and the public university are at risk
Academic freedom has become a common topic of Australian public debate. Yet the concept is rarely examined or critiqued in detail. That […]
READ MOREHiring, promotion, and tenure, Journals and publishing, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education, a review
When I was a doctoral student early in the millennium, I remember a lot of talk among my colleagues about “lines.” In […]
READ MOREDivisions in the university commons yield dividends: A partial review of Peter MacKinnon’s University Commons Divided
In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon, the long-serving president of the University of Saskatchewan, has written an interesting introduction to some of […]
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission
The Last Professors: A eulogy to “the Last Good Job in America”
Frank Donoghue: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham University Press, 2008)
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Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Governance, Performance assessment
Chronicles of Faculty Idealism, Disenchantment, and Resistance
A collection of the recollections and analyses of long-service academics, who have faced the disenchantment many academics feel, could be a valuable resource for dialogue on our campuses.
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Going Global? A Guide to the Twists and Turns of Global Mobility in Higher Education
A review essay of Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility (IIE Books, 2009)
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Book Publishing Today: Not for the Faint of Heart
A writer who took a close and critical look at academic publishing in 2005 turns his attention to trade publishing. And what he sees is even less pretty.
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Using Culture to Understand How the Academy is Governed
William Tierney’s book, The Impact of Culture on Organizational Decision Making (Stylus 2008), discusses the importance of using a cultural lens on the governance of higher education institutions.
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Being feminist in the academy
Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries, eds., Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76 (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2008).
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Business as Usual: Elite Universities during the 1930s
Resources and intelligence do not necessarily translate into political or moral fortitude. Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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