Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Higher Education Perspectives (HEP) is a peer reviewed journal that examines all aspects of higher education, with a focus on Canada. Topics and themes include management and governance of universities and community colleges, and the internationalization and globalization of research, curricula, student body and professoriate. Other themes include academic freedom, tenure, differentiation, history of higher education, issues around professional education and the higher education in the Canadian context.

The Higher Education group within OISE/UTs Theory and Policy Studies is highly dynamic. We have a broad range of international students, and students from a variety of backgrounds. Many are pursuing advanced degrees after achieving success in an array of professional fields, from surgeons to alternative health practitioners, community college administrators to university student affairs professionals. Faculty and student research interests are equally varied. With this exciting range, HEP will reflect an equivalent diversity. The binding thread is the passion our group possesses for higher education that is inclusive, equitable and academically sound.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Editors
  • Emily Gregor, OISE/UT
  • Mia Quint, OISE/UT, TPS, Higher Education
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Book/Media Reviews

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Interviews

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Working papers

Working papers are papers that are not subject to peer-review. Authors of working papers have been invited by editors to submit their latest work and ideas to the journal.

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Letter From the Editor

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Dissertation abstracts

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Memories of Berta

This is a one time only section of written memorials and testimonies about TPS professor Berta Vigil-Laden who passed away in November.

Editors
  • Emily Gregor, OISE/UT
  • Mia Quint, OISE/UT, TPS, Higher Education
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Higher education and the city

Higher education in the city is a special section devtoed to the effects of high urban environments on higher education. How have unviersities changed as a result of changes in cities? Has this affected their curricula? Their activities? Student and faculty populations? How does the city affect notions of education?

The city as a cultural construct is showing up, more and more in works that look at contemporary social environments. Understanding universities, colleges, and other post-secondary forms of education in the context of these modes of understanding might help us to see universities in a new light and deal head on with some of the problems they are facing.

Please send in your responses, thoughts and ideas about this theme. Your pieces will not be sumbitted for peer review, however they will go through the process of editing.

Editors
  • Mia Quint, OISE/UT, TPS, Higher Education
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Invited Papers

Editors invited authors to submit a paper to the jorunal.

Editors
  • Mia Quint, OISE/UT, TPS, Higher Education
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Reports

Editors
  • Mia Quint, OISE/UT, TPS, Higher Education
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Peer Review Process

Each article will be reviewed by one faculty and two student reviewers. The time for completion of reviews is four weeks. The journal practices a "double-blind" review policy: authors are not notified of the identity of reviewers, and reviewers are not informed of the identity of authors.

Reviewers assess the acceptability of articles for publication and inform the editors of their recommendation, for acceptance, modification, or rejection. Reviewers are asked to provide comments to the author related to suggested revisions of articles prior to their being acceptable for publication. Criticism is intended to be constructive.

If you are interested in being a reviewer for Higher Education Perspectives, please send an email to the editors. Include your name, institution and affiliation, email address, telephone number, and fields of interest/specialization.

All contact information collected will be kept confidential and will only be used by the journal for its stated purposes.

 

Publication Frequency

Issues will appear every 4-6 months.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 


Higher Education Perspectives. ISSN: 1710-1530