Higher & Continuing Education, Reform & Policy 

Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Coates, Kenneth, 1956-
Campus confidential.
Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2011
(OCoLC)693657668
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kenneth Coates; William R Morrison
ISBN: 9781552776506 1552776506
OCLC Number: 693657667
Description: 245 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: A student's guide to university --
1. University isn't for everyone --
2. Which University you attend matters less than you think --
3. There's nothing wrong with the skilled trades --
4. University tuition is a bargain --
5. No one agrees on what students should know --
6. Universities don't like victory lap students --
7. Your grades wil drop --
8. What to look for in a prof --
Planning a university career --
9. Universities want high schools to shape up --
10. Forget the BA: Now you need two degrees --
11. A degree is not such a hot investment --
12. First University, then College --
13. Canadian Universities are all pretty much the same --
14. Universities detest helicopter parents --
15. It's about careers, not education --
16. Your success in life is not guaranteed by a University education --
17. University fees discriminate against the poor --
Inside the ivory tower --
18. Not every University is "World Class" --
19. Our Universities need a proper admissions test --
20. Our math students just can't complete --
21. Killing the traditional disciplines --
22. The power of business schools --
23. A nasty secret --
24. There's a good reason so many University buildings are ugly --
25. We aren't producing engaged citizens --
26. Medical students are getting a free ride --
27. Toronto rules the Canadian Academic world --
28. Sports rule ... or not --
29. Our Universities are Eurocentric --
30. Engineers are a hot-ticket item --
31. Business and the University --
32. Do grade 2 Teachers need five years of post-secondary education? --
33. The science tsunami --
34. The public just doesn't get Academic research. Do Canadian universities work? --
35. Putting bums on seats is crucial --
36. Coming your way: Closing campuses --
37. University education should be coordinated nationally --
38. Governing the University --
39. We should abolish the three-year degree --
40. Universities and Colleges are fighting tooth and nail --
41. The perfect University system --
The view from the front of the class --
42. Students aren't interested in book learning --
43. Students read junk --
44. Campus idealism is dead and buried --
45. Part-time student work and the beer index --
46. Students are no longer in awe of the professors --
47. The entitlement generation has changed the game --
48. Eighteen is the new fifteen --
49. Getting by on the bare minimum of work --
50. We should demand more, Not less, from our students --
51. In praise of single parents --
52. Eighteen-year-olds control our Universities --
53. Aboriginal students put their communities first --
54. Cheating and the internet --
55. Students are unwilling to study abroad --
56. Residence life --
A professor's life --
57. Teaching in the dark ages --
58. Teaching as torture --
59. Universities should be exciting --
60. It's hard to get a faculty job --
61. Your prof doesn't take the summer off --
62. Tenure terror --
63. Universities don't evaluate professors property --
64. Your professor is not overpaid --
65. The days of academic conferences may be numbered --
66. It's almost impossible to fire profs --
67. Faculty unions --
68. The shame of the sessionals --
69. The strange economics of scholarly publication --
70. PhDs don't drive taxis --
Univerisities in Canadian society --
71. There's a new quiet revolution in Quebec --
72. Academic freedom is endangered by neglect --
73. Language study is in decline --
74. Successful Universities need a ton of money --
75. Core courses are a good idea ... Or not --
76. Academic fraud is a reality --
77. We need to establish basic competencies --
78. A nationally uneven system --
79. Quebec's absurd fee policy --
80. Almoist everyone is eligible --
81. The 'Man' problem at our uniersities --
82. Perhaps men are right --
83. Don't mock the social sciences --
84. The University myth --
85. Will Universities lead the innovation economy? --
86. Universities are loke post offices --
87. If we ran the University --
88. The mandate for Universities is confusing --
89. Popular culture distorts our perception of University life --
90. The death of the holistic University experience. Are Canada's universities ready for the twenty-first century --
91. Canada needs more science and technology graduates --
92. Universities need a new funding model --
93. Digital technologies --
94. Accessibility is entrenching academic mediocrity --
95. Universities need international students --
96. Some of our best grads are leaving --
97. Struggling with english --
98. Canada needs a Harvard --
99. Top priority: Teaching and learning --
100. National innovation.
Responsibility: Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison.