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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() A Generation No One Was Counting OnFrom: 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. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth |
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 … | John Taylor Gatto | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() A Professor’s LifeFrom: 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 … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 35 | 2013 | $3.50 Add |
From ![]() A Student’s Guide to UniversityFrom: 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 … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() A Twelve-Vote MarginFrom: In Defiance |
How student organizations engaged students on various campuses and fostered mass meetings and voting on the strike. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() All for What?From: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add | |
From ![]() At the Parthenais Detention CentreFrom: In Defiance |
Actions of the police: protection or intimidation? | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() Bibliography |
To be included with each chapter | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 14 | 2002 | $1.40 Add |
![]() Campus Confidential100 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, … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 256 | 2013 | View |
From ![]() Campus Parking and the Car as a Third PlaceAsphalt 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 … | Randle W. Nelsen | 13 | 2017 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Canadian Pis from West to East |
The problems of Pis manifested in Canada | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 42 | 2002 | $4.20 Add |
From ![]() ChronologyFrom: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add | |
From ![]() Classroom Practice and Student-Friendly SuggestionsUp 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 … | Randle W. Nelsen | 23 | 2017 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() Cleaning up the MessPutting 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 … | Randle W. Nelsen | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() Collective HysteriaFrom: In Defiance |
Conflicting attitudes from mainstream media towards the strike and students. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! ConclusionFrom: The Elective Mind |
The conclusion reflects on the current role of philisophy in the modern university. | Réal Fillion | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |