Re/conceptualizing time in higher education: Accelerating academia: the changing structure of academic time, by Filip Vostal, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 242 pp., $159.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-137-47359-2; Slow professor: challenging the culture of speed in the academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016, 136 pp., $22.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781487521851; Time and the rhythms of emancipatory education: rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society, edited by Michel Alhadeff-Jones, London, Routledge, 2017, 226 pp., $136 (hardback), ISBN 9781138845848; Universities in the flux of time: An exploration of time and temporality in university life, edited by Paul Gibbs, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, & Ronald Barnett, London, Routledge, 2014, 208 pp., $136 (hardback), ISBN 9780415732222

This article provides a summary and analysis of four books that explore the concept of time in higher education. The books discuss various aspects of academic life, such as teaching, research, and collegiality, and offer strategies for embracing a slower approach to academia. The author praises the books for their insights and strategies, but also criticizes them for their limited perspectives, particularly in terms of social difference and ontological discussions of time. The author suggests that a more inclusive and diverse approach to studying time in higher education is needed. [Extracted from the article]