Join us to hear from Dr. Roberta Hawkins about her recent book, co-authored with Dr. Leslie Kern, called 'Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University'. In this ‘Author Meets Readers’ session, Roberta will introduce and overview the book, we will hear remarks, observations and queries from a small panel of respondent readers, and then open up for questions and more discussion with the audience.

The panellists include:  

• Dr. Jennifer Silver (University of Guelph), Session Chair
• Dr. Roberta Hawkins (University of Guelph), Book Author/Respondent to Panelists
• Dr. Zoë Meletis (University of Northern British Columbia), Reader/Panelist
• Dr. Carolyn Prouse (Queen’s University), Reader/Panelist
• Dr. Josie Wittmer (Memorial University of Newfoundland Grenfell Campus), Reader/Panelist
• Dr. Ben Bradshaw (University of Guelph), Reader/Panelist