Character, Corruption, and ‘Cultures of Speed’ in Higher Education

In Ainé Mahon (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on the Contemporary University: In Shadows and Light. Springer. pp. 17-28 (2022)
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This chapter offers a character-based criticism of ‘the culture of speed’ condemned by the Canadian literary scholars, Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber in their influential polemic, The Slow Professor. Central to their criticisms of speed and praise of slowness are, I argue, substantive concerns about their effects on moral and intellectual character. I argue that a full reckoning of the wrongs of academic cultures of speed must include appreciation of the ways they promote a host of accelerative vices and failings while also impeding exercise of a range of the virtues vital to enactment of our core academic commitments to teaching, scholarship, and collegiality.

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