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Anti-University: Scholarship Before, Within, and Beyond The University

Anti-University: Scholarship Before, Within, and Beyond The University

Private universities now receive government funding, public universities prize industry partnerships, and liberal arts colleges emphasise the development of graduates capable of contributing to a nation's economic prosperity and security.

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On Publishing At Least One Paper This Year

On Publishing At Least One Paper This Year

After all, has not our understanding of the pinnacle of academic excellence become entirely about getting single-authored journal articles in ‘top-tier’ journals?

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The Year of The Scholar

The Year of The Scholar

Indulging in a future in which the practices of scholarship had been fostered under a different culture and a different set of conditions, his fiction playfully – yet definitively – set forth the kind of scholarly future we are setting ourselves up to work towards.

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Scholars Pay Themselves

Scholars Pay Themselves

Rather than waiting around for university employment to permit them to be scholars, relying on universities as middlemen who decide how much their scholarship is worth, scholars can directly turn their expertise and skills into livelihood.

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Destruction of Knowledge

Destruction of Knowledge

We need to publish special issues, and we need to ensure that these special issues get submissions

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On Making Research Pay For Itself

On Making Research Pay For Itself

Governments award money (take), research is produced (make), which - unless a patent facilitates private ownership for a short time - becomes part of the scientific commons (waste).

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Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism

Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism

“All over the country, meanwhile, students were and still are being upbraided, reprimanded, given F’s on papers, flunked in courses, and expelled from universities for doing this plagiarism thing, this indefinable thing.”

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On Successful Scholarship

On Successful Scholarship

“The job of the scholar is to contribute to society, and if they are not doing so, they are not successful.” And here, we will agree but with one vital amendment.

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Doughnut Shaped Scholarship

Doughnut Shaped Scholarship

And yet, this framing of quality science has rarely been taken up in earnest, particularly in how science is evaluated or valued in broader society. The dominant understanding of “quality” science – especially in public and policy discourse – is

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On Scholar-Led Knowledge Creation

On Scholar-Led Knowledge Creation

I wonder, will you be content to donate your labor to subsidize the salary of a Revenue Acceleration Manager?

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On Not Leaving Academia, But Standing Outside It

On Not Leaving Academia, But Standing Outside It

They are a mode of academic conversation – a practice of exchanging ideas and reflections – but they enjoy the benefit of being unbounded by the constraints of the academic journal article.

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On The Inability to Let Go of The Scholar

On The Inability to Let Go of The Scholar

For was it not academia that had given me the space-time to pursue my scholarly becoming? Academia had given me the opportunity to make this transformation happen.