Mary Catharine Lennon
A Policy Maker's Handbook
Richardson, R. and Martinez, M., Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases Across State Systems (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009). more>>
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David Trick
Definitely not for loss
Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) more>>
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Richard Wellen
Grappling with Academic Capitalism in Canadian Universities
With the academic culture changing and managerialism threatening collegiality, can academics defect from “corporatization’’ by defining their knowledge as a public good?
A review of:
The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture
Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher, eds. (UBC Press, 2008)
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Yasmin Jiwani
The Challenge of Identity: The Experience of Mixed Race Women in Higher Education
Indra Angeli Dewan, Recasting Race, Women of Mixed Heritage in Further Education (Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and Sterling, USA: Trentham Books, 2008) more>>
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Anne Wagner
Equity Within Education
Jeanie K. Allen, Diane R. Dean and Susan D. Bracken, eds., Most College Students are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy (Stylus 2008) and Linda J. Sax, The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men (John Wiley &Sons 2008) more>>
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Jennie Hornosty
“Whose university is it, anyway?” A question we need to keep asking
Whose University Is It, Anyway? Power and Privilege on Gendered Terrain, edited by Anne Wagner, Sandra Acker, and Kimine Mayuzumi (Sumach Press, 2008) more>>
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David Trick
Making decisions that endure for decades
Paulo Santiago, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri and Elena Arnal. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society. Volume 1: Special Features: Governance, Funding, Quality; and Volume 2: Special Features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation. Paris: OECD, 2008. 728 pages. more>>
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Vinita Srivastava
Global souls and youth moves
Youth Moves, an anthology edited by Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi (Routledge, 2008) more>>
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Anton Allahar
Can closed minds challenge authority?
A review of Gregory S. Prince Jr. Teach Them to Challenge Authority: Educating for Healthy Societies. (New York: Continuum, 2008) and
Bruce L.R. Smith, Jeremy D. Mayer, and A. Lee. Fritschler, Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
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Creso M. Sá
Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?
Debora Rhode. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status and Academic Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Mary Burgan. Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Tony Chambers
Learning about learning
John Sutton Lutz and Barbara Neis , eds. Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008). more>>
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Kate Lawson
Understanding reading
Rita Felski, Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008) more>>
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Nancy McCormack
Nothing Gold Can Stay: A Review Essay
Lucien X. Polastron, Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History, translator: Jon E. Graham (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2007); Fernando Baez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, translator: Alfred MacAdam (New York: Atlas & Co, 2008). more>>
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Marc Bousquet
Extreme Work-Study
In this excerpt adapted from his recent book, How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008), Marc Bousquet explores the relationship of mass higher education in the United States to a global shift toward precarious employment.* more>>
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Bryan Gopaul
Redefining the Virtue in University Life
Jon Nixon, Towards a Virtuous University: The Moral Basis of Academic Practice (Routledge, 2008) more>>
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Emily Gregor Greenleaf
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) more>>
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Don Fisher
Open knowledge as a public good
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky (The MIT Press, 2006) and Embargoed Science by Vincent Kiernan (University of Illinois Press, 2006) more>>
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Christopher Dummitt
The Boomers’ New Frontier
Jeff Goldsmith, The Long Baby Boom (The John Hopkins University Press 2008) more>>
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Amy Scott Metcalfe
Preaching to the choir
Marc Bousquet’s How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (New York University Press, 2008). more>>
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Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis
Academia in transition
Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century by David John Frank and Jay Gabler (Stanford University Press, 2006); The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers by Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) more>>
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