UWFA Invites Book Reviews

Jane Barter Moulaison, UWFA Communications Committee Member

In an unstable global economy, universities appear to be increasingly under siege. From the corporatization of higher education to the violent clampdown on student protest, academic freedom is threatened on perhaps an unprecedented scale in modern times. Find out what other scholars are prognosticating about the future of academic work. Members are invited to select from the following list of recent publications on higher education to write a review of approximately 500 - 700 words. For their labour, they will be rewarded with the book they have chosen to review. Reviews will be published in the UWFA News on a regular basis as a way of engendering dialogue on “big picture” changes to higher education and our university’s conformity or resistance to such change.

Please contact Jane Barter Moulaison (j.bartermoulaison@uwinnipeg.ca) to obtain a book to

review.

Arum, Richard and Josipa Roska (eds.) Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Brown, S., J. Perrault, J-A Wallace and H. Zwicker (eds.) Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism and the Liberal Arts. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011.

Coates, Ken C. and Bill Morrison. Campus Confidential: 100 Startling Things You Don’t Know About Campus Universities. Salisbury: Lorimer Press, 2011.

Côté, James E. and Anton Allahar (eds.) Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Cox, Richard J. The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate University. Duluth: Library Juice Press, 2010.

Morphew, Christopher C. and Peter D. Eckel (eds.) Privatizing the Public University: Perspectives from Across the Academy. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 2009.  

Nelson, Cary.  No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Radder, Hans (ed.) The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.  

Woodhouse, Howard. Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.