Table of Contents
Preface
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Introduction:
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Academic Callings and the Past, Present, and Future
of the Canadian University
Janice Newson and Claire Polster
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PART 1: Against All Reason: Wake-up Calls
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Chapter 1
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Are We Losing Our Minds? Unreason in Canadian Universities Today
Claire Polster, Sociologist, University of Regina
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Chapter 2
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Beyond Market Self-Serving: Recovering the Academy's Vocation
John McMurtry, Philosopher, University of Guelph
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Chapter 3
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The Risk of Critique: Voices across the Generations
Barbara Godard, English Scholar and Humanist, York University
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Chapter 4
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We Are Saying Too Much ... and Not Enough
Karen Rudie, Electrical Engineer and Applied Mathematician, Queen's University
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Chapter 5
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Unfinished Sonatina
Arthur Forer, Biologist, York University
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Chapter 6
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Idea and Reality: The University or the Universities
John P. Valleau, Chemist, and Paul Adonis Hamel, Biomedical Scientist, University of Toronto
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PART 2: Taking Stock of Personal and Institutional Histories: Calls to Account
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Chapter 7
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A Brief Memoir from the Trenches
Andrew Wernick, Cultural Theorist, Trent University
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Chapter 8
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A Career against the Grain: An Academic Callings Interview
Dorothy Smith, Sociologist, University of Victoria
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Chapter 9
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Living through Revolutionary and Reactionary Times-in the Wrong Order
Roberta Hamilton, Sociologist, Queen's University
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Chapter 10
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Force without Reason
Gordon Shrimpton, Classicist, University of Victoria
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Chapter 11
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Two Hours Left and Nothing to Say
Bruce Curtis, Sociologist, Carleton University
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Chapter 12
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From the Personal to the Political: Some Reflections and Hopes.
Jennie Hornosty, Sociologist, University of New Brunswick
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