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Author(s)

Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates

Publication Year

2013

Publisher

James Lorimer and Company

ISBN: 9781459404359-07

Categories: Education, Role of Universities, Universities, Youth

Universities in Canadian Society

From: Campus Confidential

$6.60

A complete analysis of the role of universities in Canadian Society separated as such: 73 There’s a New Quiet Revolution in Quebec

74 Academic Freedom Is Endangered by Neglect

75 Language Study Is in Decline

76 Successful Universities Need a Ton of Money

77 Universities Need Core Courses

78 Academic Fraud Is a Reality

79 Guaranteeing Basic Competencies

80 A Nationally Uneven System

81 Quebec’s Funding Fiasco: Building Provincial Mediocrity

82 Almost Everyone Is Eligible

83 Don’t Mock the Social Sciences

84 The University Myth

85 Will Universities Lead the Innovation Economy?

86 Universities Are Like Post Offices

87 Core Courses Won’t Work 88 The Mandate for Universities Is Confusing

89 Popular Culture Distorts Our Perception of University Life

90 The Death of the Holistic University Experience

91 Canada Needs More Science and Technology Graduates

92 We Need a Steady Supply of International Students

93 Some of Our Best Grads Are Leaving

94 Struggling with English

95 Digital Technologies

96 Lower-Income Families and Universities

97 Do Our Business Schools Have a Future?

98 Is There a Student Debt Crisis?

99 Top Priority: Teaching and Learning

100 Our Universities: A Global Success Story

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Contributors

Ken S. Coates

KEN S. COATES is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Formerly, he was Dean, Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo. He lives in Saskatoon

Bill Morrison

BILL MORRISON was a professor and administrator at universities in Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia and a visiting professor in the United States before he retired in 2010. Morrison has published fourteen books, twelve of them in collaboration with Ken S. Coates. He lives in Ladysmith, BC.

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