1. Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
   Higher Education in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
2. Acadia University
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. Adelphi Recovers "The Long View"
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1998
   IN 1985, PETER Diamandopoulos became Adelphi University's seventh president, ushering in an entire decade of "shock therapy" for the small commuter school on Long Island. Opposition to Diamandopoulos grew when it was disclosed that Diamandopoulos was the second highest paid university president in the United States. Adelphi had purchased a $1.2 million Manhattan condominium for his use at a time when it was shedding employees and course offerings.
4. Affirmative Action
   The New Look
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1989
   Affirmative action may be out of favor at the Supreme Court, but it is becoming a stronger force on America's campuses. Until a decade or so ago, questions of ethnicity and equity could be considered as involving mostly blacks and whites. Now Asians and Hispanics among others are making claims as well, and the rules determining which groups will be given preferential treatment have been changing. A discussion and review of the changing state and perception of affirmative action in America.
5. After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
   A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
6. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
7. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. Austerity U
   Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems under the banner of an austerity agenda. Globally common themes in this agenda include rapid increases in tuition fees, new models of university governance, new ways of teaching, a significant shift in subject matter, an attempt to depoliticize campuses, and major alterations in employment relations.
9. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1965
   This story of the “free speech” uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
10. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
11. Brandon University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
13. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
15. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
16. Commuto Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
17. Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
18. The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
    Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
19. The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.
20. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
21. A Different Kind of Safe Space
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
22. The Dissenting Academy
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. Durham College
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
24. EducationSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
25. Father Jimmy
    The Life and Times of JImmy Tompkins
    Resource Type: Book
    
26. Flying University
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
27. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
28. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
29. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
30. Free Speech, but Not for All?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland for organizing others in support of women's rights. Milholland would go on to become influential in the women’s movement, and the college president, James Monroe Taylor, would become yet another example of an overly protective and historically myopic educator. He believed that women should be "not leaders, but good wives and mothers" -- the prevailing view of the day.
31. The Holiversity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
32. Humanism Betrayed
    Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
33. Humanism Betrayed - Table of Contents and Introduction
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    A defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
34. Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
35. Jewish Group Strongly Opposes Censorship at York University
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada protests the York University administration's decision to revoke the student club status of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University until January 2014.
36. Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
37. Lakehead University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
38. A Long Eclipse
    The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920 - 1970
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
39. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
40. Making Trouble
    Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
41. Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
42. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
43. Nation (university)
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Student nations or simply nations (Latin: natio meaning "being born") are regional corporations of students at a university. Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, they are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland. Medieval universities were large metropolitan centres and so the students, who were all born within the same region, usually spoke the same language, and expected to be ruled by their own familiar law joined together to form the nations.
44. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
45. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
46. Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
47. An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
48. Out In The World
    Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
49. Post-Secondary Education Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to post-secondary education in the Sources directory for the media.
50. Publicity 101 for Colleges
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Q: What's the best way for a college to get continuing media attention?
    A: By being found in SOURCES, the Media's Guide to Experts and Spokespersons
    
51. Save Our Public Universities
    In defense of America's best idea
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    This essay looks at the role of public universities in democratizing diverse and thoughtful thinking, and why the importance of these institutions seems to be getting lost in the aggressive capitalism of modern America.
52. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
53. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1969
    
54. Sources.com
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
55. Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
56. Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
    
57. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
58. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
59. The Sussex University Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Interview with Maia Pal during and immediately following the campus occupation against outsoursing at Sussex, England, which was broken up by the police on April 2, 2013.
60. Ten Days That Shook the University
    On the Poverty of Student Life
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1966
    Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.
61. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
62. Université de Moncton
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
63. The University Game
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
64. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
65. The University of Toronto
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
66. The University & the Security State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
67. Up Against the Ivy Wall
    Resource Type: Book
    
68. The Uses of the University
    Resource Type: Book
    
69. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

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1. Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries