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University Rankings Driven by Corporate Interests
I feel like I’m watching the ads before the movie, and even when the movie finally begins there are product placements everywhere. When I tell academics that my research is about rankings and media,...
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I Never Thought I’d Quote the Pope: Self-Interested Pragmatism and University...
Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ is best known as being the document in which the pontiff addressed climate change.I have not read anything by a pope or gone to church since it was a mandatory...
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The Politics of Knowledge Mobilization
Yes, we’re ‘mobilizing’ knowledge but what are we really building here? When I hear calls for knowledge mobilization, I imagine little Lego pieces of knowledge lining up with Lego guns in hand eager...
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What Connects English Language Testing, Tours and Education Markets?
A portion of an education agency’s advertisement in IndiaI just returned from a month in India working on a collaborative course in educational leadership with SNDT Women’s University. While I was...
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Between the Public Good and Private Pursuits
An inscription on the Jefferson building at the U.S. Library of Congress.This month the board of Elsevier’s owned Lingua resigned in protest over prices the company charges to university libraries....
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Remembering the Montreal Massacre, Patricia Allen and the Many Victims of...
The Ottawa Women’s Monument in that city’s downtown Minto Park was dedicated in 1992 to the women murdered as a result of domestic violence. (Photo: Padraic Ryan/Wikimedia/CC)I remember December 6,...
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University Amenities and University Food Banks
The logo of the U.S.-based College and University Food Bank Alliance. The existence of an alliance suggests there must be a number of constituents …A number of things have gone down and up in higher...
View ArticleWhich University Rankings Should You Trust?
In an animated presentation from her new book, Global University Rankings and the Mediatization of Higher Education, our blogger Michelle L. Stack takes a student-focused approach to answer the...
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Back to School – ABCs
This blog was inspired by the ABC book A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara, which I highly recommend for all. *** A is for Academic. Your professor gives you academic credit to read about a pandemic....
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What’s ‘World Class’ About University Rankings?
The annual frenzy of responses from higher education institutions to the release of the “big three” higher education rankings which include the QS, Association of Research World Universities and most...
View ArticleWorry About Adults and How We Come to Believe in Lies
Whenever there is an incident that involves youth violence I get calls from journalists asking things like, “Can you comment on what’s happening with today’s youth?” “Why are they so violent” “Is...
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University Rankings Distract From Higher-Education Reform
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently got some good news after a few weeks of scandal management. It continues to be in the top 10 universities, according to the Times Higher...
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