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Campus Confidential: 100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities Paperback – March 7, 2011


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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Lorimer (March 7, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1552776506
  • ISBN-13: 978-1552776506
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,601,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"According to Coates and Morrison, Canada should rethink its approach to post-secondary schooling, with more students streamed not to university but to technical and practical training. Clearly, there's an enduring demand for IT support staff and healthcare technicians, electricians, plumbers, skilled construction workers, draftsmen and tool and die makers." (Diana Swift Anglican Journal 2011-11-01)

"Only once students respect the university experience for what it is -- not what it will get them -- will attitudes change. But with the many challenges facing young people today, Coates and Morrison aren't sure this can even happen." (CBC.CA/books 2011-09-16)

"...a guide to the mindset of the entitlement generation." (Margaret Wente Globe & Mail 2011-09-17)

"[Ken Coates and Bill Morrison's] new book, Campus Confidential, is a bracing reality check that should be essential reading for would-be university students, their parents and anyone who thinks higher education holds all the answers." (Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail 2011-03-31)

"Heading to university just because Mom, Dad, a guidance counsellor, or society in general think you should can prove to be an extremely expensive mistake." (Rick Maclean Charlottetown Guardian 2011-09-24)

"This is a must read book for all parents and teenagers thinking about university education as well as all high school counsellors." (Hrayr Berberoglu Wines World 2012-11-05)

Thinking about post-secondary education? Bill Morrision [and Ken Coates] has just the book for you. (Ladysmith Chronicle)

"The entitlement generation is killing the joy of teaching they say, but students aren't the only challenge for universities....The 100 startling things are organized into short chapters with snappy titles..." (Janet Steffenhagen Vancouver Sun 2011-09-05)

"...crisply written" (Jon Ferry The Province 2011-09-07)

"[One] of the smartest critics of the system is Ken Coates... Dr. Coates’s book, Campus Confidential, is essential reading for students and their parents." (Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail 2012-10-20)

About the Author

KEN S. COATES is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Formerly, he was Dean, Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo. He lives in Saskatoon.

BILL MORRISON was a professor and administrator at universities in Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia and a visiting professor in the United States before he retired in 2010. Morrison has published fourteen books, twelve of them in collaboration with Ken S. Coates. He lives in Ladysmith, BC.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By A.Reader1 on May 20, 2012
Format: Paperback
From the subtitle ("100 startling things you don't know...") I was expecting more of a telltale/gossipy book where campus insiders could air their dirty laundry and let the general public & policy makers know what's actually happening on campus and what needs reforming. Given the paucity of hard-hitting books focusing on the Canadian university scene we need this, notwithstanding "Ivory Tower Blues" by Côté and Allahar. There's lots of books of this type for American universities so why not one (or several) for Canada? Well, we do get some dirty laundry, along with the authors' view on what needs changing, but the material presented is very uneven - sometimes solidly argued, often contradictory and sometimes just mere opinion.

Overall, this book is basically a grab-bag of arguments covering different aspects of the modern Canadian university. A few themes, however, do emerge: (1) we have far too many unqualified students attending university and standards are dropping all the time in order to get bums in seats. For a deeper analysis of this problem see Côté and Allahar's book. (2) Basic competencies in reading, writing and thinking are in very short supply along with someone defining what a core curriculum is, especially in the Faculty of Arts. Someone needs to address this so that employers will know what kinds of skills they can expect from graduates. (3) There's a serious question as to whether all that research money in universities drive significant innovation in the wider Canadian economy. They give some evidence that not much national wealth creation comes from all this spending. (4) We should stop pretending all universities are excellent (whatever that means) and allow different universities to focus on different aspects of the market as happens in the U.S.
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