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This card is issued by TJX® Canada. Academic Matters magazine OBC full page ad-alternate.indd 1 2017-03-28 3:40 PM January | Janvier 2016 2 The university in the populist age Steven Tufts and Mark Thomas Academic Matters Right-wing populism threatens the future of higher education, but remaining passive and OCUFA’S JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION retreating to a disinterested vision of the university will actually strengthen the attacks. LA REVUE D’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR D’UAPUO Faculty have a responsibility to work in solidarity to fight back against these threats. Academic Matters is published two times a year by 7 Trump, Brexit and the academy OCUFA, and is received by 17,000 professors, academic librarians and others interested in higher education Peter Scott issues across Canada. The journal explores issues of There is some truth in the populist attack that the academy has sold-out to corporate relevance to higher education in Ontario, other provinces interests and become inaccessible to many. Universities should unambiguously reassert in Canada, and globally. It is intended to be a forum for themselves as transparent and open institutions that serve the public interest. thoughtful and thought-provoking, original and engaging discussion of current trends in postsecondary education 11 A populist wake-up call for universities and consideration of academe’s future direction. Mark Kingwell Readers are encouraged to contribute their views, ideas and talents. Letters to the editor (maximum 250 words) For many, universities do not represent opportunity or self-realization, but instead elite are welcome and may be edited for length. To provide self-regard and academic exchanges in which they see no relevance. What can faculty do an article or artwork for Academic Matters, please to change these perceptions? send your query to Editor-in-Chief Ben Lewis at [email protected]. International students and Canada’s future on the right 16 Reproduction of articles requires the permission of the Grace Karram Stephenson author and publisher. Copyright in material accepted for Populist and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and UK means that more international publication remains with the author. The publisher may students are coming to study at postsecondary institutions in Canada. But, what Canada will choose, however, to translate and/or reproduce material in print and electronic form. All published material they find when they get here? expresses the view of the author(s) and not the publisher. 19 Canada’s university administrators must pay attention to Academic Matters accepte volontiers des articles écrits right-wing activism on campuses en anglais ou en français. Steven Zhou Publisher: The surge in racism on university campuses is part of a broader right-wing awakening across OCUFA; Mark Rosenfeld, Executive Director the country. University administrators must counter these developments, or the credibility of Editor-in-Chief: their institutions will suffer. Ben Lewis Global higher education, social solidarity, and the new nationalism Associate Editor: 22 Erica Rayment Simon Marginson Higher education serves both national and global interests in the pursuit of knowledge and Assistant Editor: Brynne Sinclair-Waters student learning. Given populism’s nationalist roots, there is mounting pressure to redefine the university’s mission. How should universities respond? Assistant Editor: Cheryl Athersych 27 Populist citizen politics—beyond the manichean mindset Art Direction: Harry C. 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Les professeurs ont la responsabilité actually strengthen the attacks. Faculty de travailler en solidarité pour lutter contre have a responsibility to work in solidarity ces menaces. to fight back against these threats. 2 | Academic Matters SPRING 2017 ...recent populist attacks are inevitably coupled with the longstanding and ongoing ofneoliberal the university. transformation ight-wing populism has been on the rise in recent years, intensifying following the 2008 global R financial crisis. 2016 marked a key moment in the right populist turn, with both Brexit and the US Presidential election constituting formal political legitimacy for right- wing populist leaders and movements. Despite widespread opposition following the election of Donald Trump—itself often taking populist forms—a range of right-wing populist forces continue to push forward. In both Europe and North America, anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic rhetoric and violence has escalated. Populist figures are giving voice to and emboldening longstanding racist and xenophobic currents in western societies. Other variants of authoritarian right-wing populism are also growing. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government in Turkey has now dismissed over 7,000 academics and in some cases jailed scholars. Not surprisingly, many academics fear populism. Distrust of elites, perhaps the primary defining feature of populism, is a threat to universities as they currently operate.
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