The erosion of academic tenure in the U.S. and its ties to public neoliberal anti-intellectualism by Virginia R. Dominguez

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Tenure, the Canadian tar sands and ‘Ethical Oil’ by D Pauly

“…This has intensified since 2006, when the new conservative government of Canada began its systematic and well-documented assault on the functioning, independence and integrity of the environmental science performed in federal governmental laboratories, which is largely attributed to its focus on developing Canada’s tar sands and Arctic offshore oil, while denying the reality of global warming. Academic tenure, still a major feature of Canada’s research universities, appears to be one of the few obstacles to this strategy of silencing environmental scientists concerned about this course of action.…”
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Examining and adapting multiple intelligences assessment components for primary school students; a native look by Mojtaba Mahdavi, Gholamali Afrooz, Mohsen Shokouhi-Yekta, Keyvan Salehi, Ali Moghadam-Zadeh

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Relationship between personality and entrepreneurial inclination among university students by Mohd. Othman, Fazilah, Abdul Mutalib, Rozita, Ahmad, Zalinah, Ismail, Nur Syakiran Akmal

“…Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has established an Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) in its effort to promote this field.Besides focusing on academic matters, students also have the opportunity to experience 'hands-on' activities in entrepreneurship programs such as, operating business on campus,attending workshops and courses on entrepreneurship as well as given on-going consultation.These programs are available throughout their academic tenure on campus.Nevertheless, the process of evoking students' interests in entrepreneurship is challenging.The fact that people have different personalities and interests this research initially.In this paper we explore the relationship between personality and entrepreneurial inclination among students at UUM. …”
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Pratiques partenariales depuis l’université : vers des logiques entrepreneuriales ?  by Camille Vergnaud, Camille Noûs

“…Based on interviews (N=146) conducted with academic actors from 2013 to 2017, this article investigates to what extend the academic affiliation shapes the conditions of possibility for partnerships between academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences (N=51) and non-academic actors, in a comparative perspective between Syracuse University (USA) and Paris Nanterre (France). The status of academic (tenured) is underlined as the main asset in terms of security and autonomy of work. …”
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