Topic: Faculty associations
Reckoning with the Legacy of Universities: Reflections on Congress 2023
As academic convenor of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Andrea A. Davis worked with a diverse community to […]
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Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Faculty associations, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure
New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk
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Academic freedom, Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Universities and the academic mission
University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good
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Academic freedom, Corporatization and commercialization, Faculty associations, Funding, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Public policy, Research and innovation, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Are there ever really ‘financial reasons’ to fire faculty? Laurentian University, academic freedom, and the disciplining of the professoriate
The 2020–21 academic year saw two incidents of Ontario professors being effectively fired: the termination of 116 of the 345 professors at […]
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Mental health in academia: The challenges faculty face predate the pandemic and require systemic solutions
The pandemic has intensified many stress points for faculty and academic librarians while highlighting existing issues with how academic work is structured. […]
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Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
Indigenizing the collective bargaining process at North Island College
The following interview was conducted with leaders at the North Island College Faculty Association. They responded collectively as a group. Could you […]
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Canadian universities: 10 years of anti-racist reports but little action
Students often carry the bulk of the burden to combat systemic racism on campus. (GoToVan/Flickr) Last fall, around 20 students sat-in for […]
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Courage, strength, and resolve: How the King’s University College Faculty Association unionized in the middle of a pandemic
Facing a global health pandemic and an uncooperative administration, the King’s University College Faculty Association decided it was time to unionize. Now […]
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Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Governance, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
Rising to the challenge: Reflections on a round of pandemic bargaining
Bargaining is an intensive and complex process during the best of times, but what happened when the Brock University Faculty Association found […]
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