Campus confidential
Subtitle: 100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities
By: Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison
Contributors: Morrison, William R. (William Robert), 1942-
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781552776506
Subjects: Universités; Enseignement supérieur; Higher Education; Universities and colleges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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