- Academic Boycott of South Africa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
- 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.
- Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
- Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result.
- Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
- Am I a bad feminist?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
- 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.
- The Bishop Strachan School
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
- 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.
- 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.
- For Lust of Knowing
The Orientalists and their enemies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
- 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.
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
- How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern studies, Chibber makes a strong case for why we can -- and must -- conceptualize the non-Western world through the same analytical lens that we use to understand developments in the West. He offers a sustained defense of theoretical approaches that emphasize universal categories like capitalism and class. His work constitutes an argument for the continued relevance of Marxism in the face of some of its most trenchant critics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
- No Grades in Higher Education Now!
Is the Revolution any closer?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
- 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
- Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
- Sociology department's hiring of Americans causes discord
Resource Type: Article
U of T sociology department has been thrown into a turmoil over its hiring of eight foreigners -- and no Canadians -- to fill staff vacancies.
- Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Teaching Johnny To Walk
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
The description of a pilot study on infant ambulation drawing from two techniques: Richardson's and Chambers' "life milieu deprivation" and Kalstadt's "rehearsal prolongation".
- 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.
- The University of Toronto
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
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