What’s Happened To The University?

What’s Happened To The University?
Title What’s Happened To The University? PDF eBook
Author Frank Furedi
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 214
Release 2016-10-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1315449595

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The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society. On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of concern not just for academics but also for the general public. What is one to make of the growing trend of banning speakers? What’s the meaning of trigger warnings, cultural appropriation, micro-aggression or safe spaces? And why are some students going around arguing that academic freedom is no big deal? What's Happened To The University? offers an answer to the questions of why campus culture is undergoing such a dramatic transformation and why the term moral quarantine refers to the infantilising project of insulating students from offence and a variety of moral harms.

What's Wrong with University

What's Wrong with University
Title What's Wrong with University PDF eBook
Author Jeff Rybak
Publisher ECW Press
Pages 291
Release 2007-05
Genre Education
ISBN 1554902320

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Students invest a lot of time and money in a university education but all too often don't get what they came for. This book addresses the most pressing concerns for undergraduate students and helps them cope with the university system. The author illustrates that a university has five distinct functions, which are often in conflict with each other; students often find themselves with different goals and motivations than their peers and with institutional features designed around the needs of those other students. As a result they are frequently frustrated by their experiences. This guide explains how a university really works and provides advice on how all students can overcome these internal conflicts to get what they most want from the university experience.

Improving What is Learned at University

Improving What is Learned at University
Title Improving What is Learned at University PDF eBook
Author John Brennan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 254
Release 2010-01-21
Genre Education
ISBN 1135190984

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This book provides a unique insight into ‘what is really learned at university’ and how much it differs between students and between the universities they attend, challenging notions of ‘best’ or ‘top’ universities.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Title The Last Lecture PDF eBook
Author Randy Pausch
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Cancer
ISBN 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The United Church of Canada

The United Church of Canada
Title The United Church of Canada PDF eBook
Author Don Schweitzer
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Pages 430
Release 2011-11-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1554584191

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From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s. A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church’s worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary. The result is an original, accessible, and engaging account of The United Church of Canada’s pilgrimage that will be useful for students, historians, and general readers. From this account there emerges a complex portrait of the United Church as a distinctly Canadian Protestant church shaped by both its Christian faith and its engagement with the changing society of which it is a part.

The Contemporary Review

The Contemporary Review
Title The Contemporary Review PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 964
Release 1892
Genre Literature
ISBN

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Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station

Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Title Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station PDF eBook
Author New York State College of Agriculture
Publisher
Pages 948
Release 1913
Genre Agriculture
ISBN

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Vols. issued in Albany include reports on both experimental and extension work, as well as research and extension publications issued during the year. Vols issued in Ithaca contain some of these reports and publications but are not as inclusive.