This article explores the relationship between the history of the student experience and contemporary student life. It identifies enduring patterns in three areas: the social origins of students, student culture and activism, and the perceived academic quality of students. Reflecting their predominantly middle class backgrounds, university students have craved social status and feared the prospect of downward mobility, particularly in hard economic times. They have forged a student culture which serves to relieve academic tensions and strengthen their claim to social distinctiveness. Sexist outbursts by male students, past and present, speak to fundamental feelings of insecurity in the face of feminist movements. Political activism among a ...
Student services professionals have emerged as significant supportive collaborators in the construct...
This article explains the degree to which academic goals are integrated into the residential systems...
The Canadian Union of Students (CUS) was Canada's national postsecondary student organisation from ...
This article explores the relationship between the history of the student experience and contemporar...
This article explores the student success literature published within the Canadian Journal of Higher...
This paper relates the changes that have occurred in historiography over the last couple of decades ...
Sociological research on higher education in Canada is in an infancy state at best. How- ever, this ...
A behavioural indicator of student protest - voting in favour of a student strike referendum - is sh...
This paper is an institutional case study of how post-World War II social trends reconfigured Canadi...
The 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women of Canada represents the first offici...
In this article we investigate Canadian university and college students’ interpersonal confl icts an...
This paper reports the findings of a survey in which Canadian university presidents were asked to in...
By examining forms of social thought articulated by members of the University of Toronto between 188...
Academic freedom has a long, complex history in Canada and elsewhere. For reasons that are at times ...
Class has been a controversial category of historical analysis. Historians and social theorists have...
Student services professionals have emerged as significant supportive collaborators in the construct...
This article explains the degree to which academic goals are integrated into the residential systems...
The Canadian Union of Students (CUS) was Canada's national postsecondary student organisation from ...
This article explores the relationship between the history of the student experience and contemporar...
This article explores the student success literature published within the Canadian Journal of Higher...
This paper relates the changes that have occurred in historiography over the last couple of decades ...
Sociological research on higher education in Canada is in an infancy state at best. How- ever, this ...
A behavioural indicator of student protest - voting in favour of a student strike referendum - is sh...
This paper is an institutional case study of how post-World War II social trends reconfigured Canadi...
The 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women of Canada represents the first offici...
In this article we investigate Canadian university and college students’ interpersonal confl icts an...
This paper reports the findings of a survey in which Canadian university presidents were asked to in...
By examining forms of social thought articulated by members of the University of Toronto between 188...
Academic freedom has a long, complex history in Canada and elsewhere. For reasons that are at times ...
Class has been a controversial category of historical analysis. Historians and social theorists have...
Student services professionals have emerged as significant supportive collaborators in the construct...
This article explains the degree to which academic goals are integrated into the residential systems...
The Canadian Union of Students (CUS) was Canada's national postsecondary student organisation from ...