Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make It Better for Others, and Transform the University

by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern

Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they're built on systems that are discriminatory, hierarchical, and individualistic. This hurts the people that work and learn in them and limits the potential for universities to contribute to a better world. But we can raise our expectations. Hawkins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771136596
• ISBN13: 9781771136594
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 240 Pages