Titles and entitlements: why ‘University’?

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Thomas Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Good Judgment ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
The University

Education involves the search for good judgment, and thus also institutes the principles of criticism. It does this in the interests of extending the range of human possibilities and in extending and distributing those possibilities democratically. In this, it is structurally opposed to the logic of privatization as such. This chapter explores how it is that existing social and class privilege has tried to prevent the university from doing this, in the interests of protecting those very privileges. The Browne Review was central to this project. In a peculiar self-contradiction, Browne fundamentally reconstructs the University as an ivory tower institution, one that legitimised privilege by radically reducing the scope and ambit of the university’s roles and social responsibilities. After Browne, the university seeks to entrench the very ideology of privilege, by translating the demands for justice or good judgment into a logic of self-advancement via competition. It institutes the culture of acquisitive individualism or greed over the extension of democracy and freedoms.

scholarly journals Roles of Christian campus fellowships in the fight against cultism in Nigerian universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collins I. Ugwu ◽  
Onyekachi G. Chukwuma
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
University Community

Cultism is prevalent in most tertiary institutions in Africa. There is no gainsay that this vice is generally unacceptable from both socio-cultural and religious viewpoints. Unfortunately, despite the detrimental tendencies associated with it, some students actively engage in it. Hence, various governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have risen to campaign against cultism in tertiary institutions. The thrust of this research, therefore, is to investigate the roles of Christian campus fellowships in the fight against cultism amongst students of Nigerian universities, with reference to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It also explores the challenges which the activities of cult groups pose to the university community. Utilising the descriptive method of data analysis, this work discovered that Christian campus fellowships are both a significant and a veritable tool in the fight against cultism in the UNN. As part of her primary and social responsibilities, Christian campus fellowships preach and teach against cult activities in tertiary institutions. They also intervene through some philanthropic gestures and other ecclesiastical activities which are primarily geared towards inculcating right values and godly characters in students, encouraging students who are members of cult groups to denounce their membership and also discouraging students from joining cult groups. The data for this research were drawn from both primary (personal communication) and secondary sources (books, journals and internet materials). The major finding of this article reveals that Christian campus fellowships in the UNN, have made remarkable strides in the campaign against the involvement of students in cultism.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article explicitly lays bare the contributions of Christian campus fellowships in order to bring cult practices to a barest minimum amongst students of the UNN. The study contributes to modern discourses on juvenile delinquency with respect to disciplines such as religion, sociology, social work and psychology.

Ivory Tower of Power: Microgrid Implementation at the University of California, San Diego

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Washom ◽  
J. Dilliot ◽  
D. Weil ◽  
J. Kleissl ◽  
N. Balac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Working for a Living Wage Around the Ivory Tower

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Andrew Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Living Wage ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Physical Plant ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University

Since the 1980s, research on employment conditions in post-secondary institutions has focused on the growth of contingent academic workers, or what the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has labelled “non-full-time instructors” (Field, Jones, Stephenson, & Khoyetsyan, 2014). Very little attention, however, has been paid to administrative, physical plant, and other operational staff employed within universities and colleges. Using data from a study of University of Regina students and employees, academic and support staff, this paper confronts the broader conditions of labour around the ivory tower. Employment at a post-secondary institution is analyzed through the lens of living wage research advanced by the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives (CCPA) (Ivanova & Klein, 2015). The study reframes the notion of a living wage in a post-secondary institution to include work-life balance, job security, and the realities of dignity and respect in the university workplace.  

Making the University Safe for Democracy, 1902-1910

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Kemeny
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Small Body ◽  
University Education ◽  
American People ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
American University ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
American Society ◽  
The University

The service of institutions of learning is not private but public,” Woodrow Wilson proclaimed at his inauguration as Princeton University’s thirteenth president. “Princeton for the Nation’s Service,” the title of Wilson’s 1902 inaugural address, captured his vision of Princeton’s mission. The nation, Wilson believed, desperately needed the university. The nation and its affairs, he observed, continued to “grow more and more complex” as a result of industrialization and bureaucratization. Furthermore, as successive waves of non-Protestant and non- Anglo-Saxon immigrant groups—”the more sordid and hapless elements” of southern Europe, as he described them elsewhere—congregated in the nation’s growing cities, Wilson, like other Protestant leaders of his day, feared that America’s democratic society stood on the verge of chaos. The very fabric of American society seemed to be ripping apart under the weight of ethnic and religious diversity. Like other educators of the day, Wilson envisioned the modern university’s playing a crucial role in ordering the nation’s business and political affairs and shaping the aspirations and values of the American people. A university education, Wilson explained, was “not for the majority who carry forward the common labor of the world” but for those who would lead the nation and mold the “sound sense and equipment of the rank and file.” The university’s task was twofold: “the production of a great body of informed and thoughtful men and the production of a small body of trained scholars and investigators.” The latter function gave the university a larger civic mission than a college. According to Wilson’s vision, Princeton would not train “servants of a trade or skilled practitioners of a profession.” By enlarging the minds of students and giving them a “catholic vision” of their social responsibilities, Princeton instead would cultivate “citizens” who would live under the “high law of duty.” “Every American university,” Wilson concluded, “must square its standards by that law or lack its national title.” Wilson’s inauguration appeared to confirm the New York Sun’s assessment of his election: “the secularization of our collegiate education grows steadily more complete.”

Academic Emotions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Barclay
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Academic Emotions ◽  
Emotional Suffering ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

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