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What’s Wrong with Corporatizing Saskatchewan’s Universities? Plenty!
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In this chapter, the authors provide brief responses to ten “what’s wrong with this?” questions that are frequently raised in university hallways, on public airways and in everyday conversation. While much more could be said in response to each question, these answers are a starting place for some much-needed debate.
Contributors
Claire Polster
Claire Polster is a University of Regina professor of sociology, specializing in the sociology of education, and has written extensively on higher education issues.
Janice Newson
Janice Newson is a professor emerita and senior scholar at York University, as well as a vocal critic of the corporatization of universities.
Patricia W. Elliot
Patricia W. Elliott is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada, specializing in investigative journalism. As a faculty advisor to the Institute for Investigative Journalism at Concordia, she has helped pioneer collaborative journalism in Canada, including helping to coordinate local and national reporting for The Price of Oil, a multi-award-winning series on oil industry emissions, and Clean Water, Broken Promises, an investigation into the impacts of colonialism on drinking water in Indigenous communities. In addition to numerous works of journalism, she co-edited Free Knowledge: Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery (UR Press 2015) and authored The White Umbrella: A Woman’s Struggle for Freedom in Burma (Friends Press 2005). She is also involved in community-engaged scholarship and has often worked alongside community members in pursuit of decolonization and social justice. She grew up in Estevan, Saskatchewan.
