ABSTRACT This study explores the perspectives and understandings of post-secondary leaders and their contexts as described through the qualitative experiences of 12 Maritime Canadian leaders (presidents and vice-presidents) who work in contemporary, publicly funded, post-secondary institutions. Four themes emerge: balancing…

ABSTRACTUsing data from several introductory-level courses at one Canadian university, community college transfer students were compared to transfer students from other universities and to non-transfer students on a number of measures of academic success. The three groups did not differ…

ABSTRACTThis study compares the undergraduate academic achievement of domestic English language learners (ELLs) of different age on arrival (AOA) cohorts to native English speakers (NS), all of whom graduated from local high schools. The broad research question that frames the…

ABSTRACT In this article we explore how neo-liberal and post neo-liberal policies threat- en the humanities in post-secondary education as a potential site of demo- cratic dialogue and social transformation. We distinguish between neo-lib- eralism and post neo-liberalism on the…

ABSTRACT This article examines the elusive concept of safety in liberal arts classrooms which are often contoured by a plurality of social, cultural, political, psy- chological, historical, and discursive forces and performances. Using select principles from adult education and social…

ABSTRACT Derrida’s account of Kant’s and Schelling’s writings on the origins of the mod- ern university are interpreted to show that theoretical positions attempting to oversee and master the contemporary university find themselves destabilized or deconstructed. Two examples of contemporary…

ABSTRACT This paper is an enquiry into the unpredictability of the liberally educated mind. We are all familiar with the value placed on the word critical when it figures prominently in justifications for liberal arts pedagogy, as in “a liberal…