Latest updates: January 4, 2008
We believe it is extremely important that the crisis confronting contemporary universities be publicly acknowledged and debated. Toward this end, through this website, we will provide the public with a way of monitoring the growing awareness of the problems associated with the crisis and the debates about the state of our universities.
This page provides links to other pages that summarize each problem as well as links to online sources that discuss various aspects of the crisis confronting contemporary universities. Some of these sources were used in researching Ivory Tower Blues, but others have become available since the publication of the book. These more recent sources show that others are discovering or monitoring the crisis and are concerned about it.
In our efforts to increase awareness of the crisis, and to stimulate discussion and debate about how to deal with it, we will continually post links to new stories and research as they arise, and revise the summaries as the situation changes.
Visit this site regularly to monitor these developments.
NEW: All pages under Monitoring the Crisis have been recently updated, but the most extensive updates as of January, 2008, are:
See also updates to Unsolicited Feedback and News Coverage.
You are welcome to download our PowerPoint presentation given at McMaster University on January 11, 2008, titled Ivory Tower Blues: Confronting the Critics. (Caution: Clicking the link will begin a download to your computer of a 2.5 mb file.)
