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By Robin Vose — A crisis is brewing on New Brunswick university campuses. Despite occasional increases in narrowly “targeted” funding (usually to benefit the private sector), and welcome initiatives to provide new administrative student services or improve accessibility for some […]

Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan & Hrvoje Tutek (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; 252 pp; ISBN: 978-1-13749-323-1. by Len Findlay This contribution to the Palgrave Critical University Studies series is as disturbing as it is timely. The global sway and invasive capacities […]

William Kaplan. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, 376 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77355-070-4. by Charles Reeve Robert Latimer was guilty. But that’s only partly why a jury convicted him of murdering his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, in 1993. The jury sympathized with Lati­mer’s sense […]

By David Robinson It’s a case that repeats a familiar pattern that’s played out recently on campuses across North America. A professor found himself under fire for expressing controversial views. Public outrage and calls for his dismissal followed, powerful donors […]

Mirjana Roksandic at the University of Winnipeg writes I work in an incredibly small but busy four-field anthropology department. After years of crisis management induced by budget cuts, our department met in June to discuss a new course proposal: how […]

Jim Clark at the University of Winnipeg writes Although it would seem reasonable that analyses of equity issues should have objectivity and lack of bias as major values, these qualities were certainly not obvious in the April 2018 issue of […]

Briony Lipton & Elizabeth Mackinlay. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; 128 pp; ISBN: 978-3-31940-077-8. by Penni Stewart It’s been more than three decades since the creation of women’s studies programs, harassment policies and affirmative action programs. Yet gender inequality persists. Although women […]

Mark William Roche. Notre Dame Press, 2017; 88 pp; ISBN: 978-0-26810-146-6. by Alan McGreevy Realizing the Distinctive University is a distillation of Mark William Roche’s accumulated knowledge and perspectives from his 11 years as dean of the college of arts and […]