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Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society's research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptu …

The Red Cross is studied and criticized. The Royal Family is studiedand criticized. Churches and hospitals are studied and criticized.Canadian universities are seldom studied and criticized and are worseoff for this neglect. This book seeks to repair this damage by castinga critical eye on how Canadian universities work - or fail to work.

Relative to establishment academia, the University College of Cape Breton is in its infancy. Yet Canada's first university college is mature for its age-a maturity that comes from years of struggling for recognition and respect.

Like the community it serves, UCCB is no stranger to adversity and turmoil, and it's proof that people can come together …

Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common?

The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of post …

ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites Statesthe selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor. " ProfScam is an incisive and convincing indictment that deserves to be read by anyone concerned about the future of American higher education" The New York Times

When Flora Roy accepted a teaching position at Waterloo College in 1948, she imagined it would be a temporary posting until she finished her dissertation and returned to Toronto or another large Canadian university. Little did she know that, as head of the English department, she would stay on and find herself involved in local controversies.

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