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A Generation No One Was Counting On

From: In Defiance

The meetings at some schools attract thousands of students, and the debates about the strike heat up. This chapter asks why this particular generation of students became vocal and active so quickly. ; 9 $0.90 Add
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A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

You just turned 17 this month, granddaughter, and you’ll be leaving the nest for college soon, I suppose. I wish you wouldn’t, but I know better than to say that, so at least let me … 17 $1.70 Add
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A Professor’s Life

From: Campus Confidential

An insider’s look at the life of a professor including: 60 Too Much Research? 61 A Teacher’s Lament 62 It’s Almost Impossible to Fire Profs 63 It’s Hard to Get a Faculty … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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A Student’s Guide to University

From: Campus Confidential

Focuses on what it means to be a student in university divided into the following: 1 University Isn’t for Everyone 2 Should Tuition Be Free? 3 Consider the Skilled Trades 4 University … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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A Twelve-Vote Margin

From: In Defiance

How student organizations engaged students on various campuses and fostered mass meetings and voting on the strike. ; 12 $1.20 Add
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All for What?

From: In Defiance

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At the Parthenais Detention Centre

From: In Defiance

Actions of the police: protection or intimidation? ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Bibliography

From: Counting Out The Scholars

To be included with each chapter ; 14 $1.40 Add

Campus Confidential

100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, … ; 256 View
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Campus Parking and the Car as a Third Place

Asphalt Grievances and Commuter Sociability

From: Degrees of Failure

Using the examples of three Canadian schools, this chapter demonstrates how issues concerning the automobile, especially both the lack and expansion of on-campus parking, have become major policy … 13 $1.30 Add
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Canadian Pis from West to East

From: Counting Out The Scholars

The problems of Pis manifested in Canada ; 42 $4.20 Add
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Chronology

From: In Defiance

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Classroom Practice and Student-Friendly Suggestions

Up Close and Personal

From: Degrees of Failure

The university’s current malaise owes much to an emphasis on the bottom line, on the primacy of vocational training in combination with elements such as an increasingly predatory education … 23 $2.30 Add
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Cleaning up the Mess

Putting Students and the Larger Community First

From: Degrees of Failure

People involved in college and university teaching need to create a higher education version of thinking and acting locally at the classroom level, a vision that will move us towards the goal of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Collective Hysteria

From: In Defiance

Conflicting attitudes from mainstream media towards the strike and students. ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Conclusion

From: The Elective Mind

The conclusion reflects on the current role of philisophy in the modern university. 12 $1.20 Add