In This Issue
University rankings as a marketing tool: READERS BEWARE
The shrill cries of “We’re number one, we’re number one!” ring out every autumn across Canadian university campuses. Normally the reserve of […]
READ MORECorporatization and commercialization, Participation and enrolment, Universities and the academic mission
Selling the Academy Without Selling Out
Faculty at Canadian universities are rightly concerned about a number of threats to academic quality and integrity, including the growing ranks of […]
READ MOREWhy I Teach Intro
You probably recall that in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four the authorities bring Winston Smith to a torture chamber to break his loyalty […]
READ MOREUniversities and The Great Depression: Then and Now?
It is positively eerie for a baby boomer like me to hear talk of a possible “Depression” in Canada. Having come of […]
READ MOREStrange Bedfellows
The call for evidence-informed decisions makes strange bedfellows of researchers and politicians. Researchers and political decision-makers live in different worlds, respond to […]
READ MOREUniversity Teaching Abroad: A Month in France
At the beginning of May 2000, I found myself teaching at Université Montpellier 1 in the south of France, a few kilometres […]
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 […]
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 MOREMarketing Academia
Do universities need to market themselves? The question has become rhetorical. Universities market themselves extensively and show no sign of pulling back. […]
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