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 |
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
Title | What's Wrong with University PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Rybak |
Publisher | ECW Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1554902320 |
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
Title | Improving What is Learned at University PDF eBook |
Author | John Brennan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2010-01-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135190984 |
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
Title | The Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Pausch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cancer |
ISBN | 9780340978504 |
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
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 |
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
Title | The Contemporary Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 964 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
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 |
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.