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An old printing press
History, Journals and publishing, Libraries

Reflections on University Press Publishing

Bill Harnum

Former University of Toronto Press executive Bill Harnum describes the current terrain of scholarly book publishing and looks to the future. There are a number of daunting challenges, he writes, but they can be overcome.

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Young man sqeezing past a water bottle machine to access a cramped water fountain
Corporatization and commercialization, Environmental sustainability, Funding, Governance

Bottled up or tapped out: Where have all the water fountains gone?

Richard Girard and Erika Shaker

Water fountains are disappearing on university campuses. Richard Girard and Erika Shaker trace how this is yet another example of the way commercialization and privatization realigns and redefines priorities in our universities.

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Oxford University
International issues, Universities and the academic mission

A view from inside the Hogwarts School of Graduate Study at Oxford

Andrew M. Boggs

A Canadian doctoral student at Oxford University shares some of his initial thoughts on the graduate experience at the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

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Arts and culture, History

“Saving floods of useless ink”: academic historians and cinematic history

John Herd Thompson

Duke University’s John Herd Thompson explores how academic historians always lose when taking on filmmakers and their depiction of the past

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Equity and social justice, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Tâwaw cî?: Aboriginal Faculty, Students, and Content in the University English Department

Jo-Ann Episkenew and Deanna Reder

In a wide-ranging conversation, First Nations University professor Jo-Ann Episkenew and Simon Fraser University professor Deanna Reder discuss the realities and challenges faced by Aboriginal academics and students in Canadian universities.

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