Higher Expectations
eBook - ePub

Higher Expectations

How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Higher Expectations

How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University

About this book

Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they're built on systems that are discriminatory, hierarchical, and individualistic. This hurts the people that work and learn in them and limits the potential for universities to contribute to a better world. But we can raise our expectations. Hawkins and Kern envision a university transformed by collaboration, care, equity, justice, and multiple knowledges. Drawing on real-world, international examples where people and institutions are already doing things in new ways, Higher Expectations offers concrete advice on how to make these transformations real. It covers many areas of academic life including course design, conferencing, administration, research teams, managing workloads and more. Designed for faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other scholars, Higher Expectations delivers hope and practical actions you can take to start making change now. It is a must-have for everyone working in academia today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Raising Our Expectations
  8. Part 1: Collaborate
  9. Part 2: Move beyond Metrics
  10. Part 3: Dismantle Hierarchies
  11. Part 4: Centre the Margins
  12. Part 5: Stay Whole
  13. About the Authors
  14. Notes
  15. Index