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Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Jewish Group Strongly Opposes Censorship at York University
2013-05-21
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada protests the York University administration's decision to revoke the student club status of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University until Ja...
Publicity 101 for Colleges
2009-05-02
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Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
2008-12-10
Commuto Inc.
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Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
DiMaggio, Anthony
Article
2014
CounterPunch
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creati...
Adelphi Recovers "The Long View"
Zaidi, A.S.
Article
1998
Against the Current
IN 1985, PETER Diamandopoulos became Adelphi University's seventh president, ushering in an entire decade of "shock therapy" for the small commuter school on Long Island. Opposition to Diamandopoulos...
Affirmative Action
The New Look
Hacker, Andrew
Article
1989
New York Review of Books
Affirmative action may be out of favor at the Supreme Court, but it is becoming a stronger force on America's campuses. Until a decade or so ago, questions of ethnicity and equity could be considered ...
After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
Brulliard, Karin
Article
2012
The Guardian
A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
Austerity U
Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
Sears, Alan; Cairns, James
Article
2014
Socialist Project
Policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems under the banner of an austerity agenda. Globally common themes in this agenda include rapid increases in tuition fees, new models of u...
Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
Giroux, Henry A.
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its s...
A Different Kind of Safe Space
Gup,, Ted
Article
2016
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
EducationSources.ca
Website
2017
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Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer)
Article
2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by in...
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2009
Canadian Dimension - Volume 43, Number 1 - January/February 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on ...
Free Speech, but Not for All?
Gup, Ted
Article
2017
The Chronicle
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland fo...
Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
Williams, Jeffrey, J.
Article
2016
Dissent
Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Yates, Michael D
Article
2017
CounterPunch
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agr...
A Long Eclipse
The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920 - 1970
Gidney, Catherine
Book
2004
McGill - Queen's University Press
Nation (university)
Wikipedia article
Article
Student nations or simply nations (Latin: natio meaning "being born") are regional corporations of students at a university. Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, they are now largely restr...
An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Article
2017
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
Post-Secondary Education Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
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Publicity 101 for Colleges
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Article
2009
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Save Our Public Universities
In defense of America's best idea
Robinson, Marilynne
Article
2016
Harper's
This essay looks at the role of public universities in democratizing diverse and thoughtful thinking, and why the importance of these institutions seems to be getting lost in the aggressive capitalism...
Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Website
2009
Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
The University & the Security State
Gasser, Michael
Article
2014
Against the Current
Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."

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Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Gonick, By (ed.)
Book
2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
En plein essor: Édition 2008 du rapport sur la recherche universitaire et la mobilisation du savoir
Book
2008
Un compte rendu détaillé de la R-D au Canada, plus particulièrement des activités du milieu universitaire.
Momentum: the 2008 report on university research and knowledge mobilization
Book
2008
An in-depth account of Canadian R&D with particular emphasis on research activities of the university sector.
The Morning After
Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Roiphe, Katie
Book
1993
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled su...
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Media

Carleton University Magazine
For alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Carleton University. Reporting on the activities, events, issues and developments within the university community as well as the accomplishments of alumni, fa...
CAUT Bulletin
Newsmagazine on post-secondary education topics.
The Concordia Journal
A community newspaper for the university, published 18 times during the academic year on a bi-weekly basis.
Guelph Alumnus Magazine
Distributed to the university's alumni.
Luminus
Alumni magazine.
McMaster Times
News magazine for McMaster alumni.
New Trail
General interest alumni magazine.
Tabaret
For alumni and friends of the University of Ottawa.
Trek Magazine
For alumni of the University of British Columbia.
University Affairs
News and information, enrollment trends, teaching technology, research breakthroughs and employment opportunities in Canadian universities.
The Varsity
The University of Toronto's student newspaper since 1880
Western Alumni Gazette
For University of Western Ontario alumni.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Ontario Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Education and Training, formed in February 1993, combines the former ministries of Education, Colleges and Universities, and Skills Development, the Ontario Training and Adjustment Boa...


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