Topic: Faculty associations

The Staying Power of Unions

Trish Hennessy

Unions help build a fairer society for everyone – from factory workers to university professors.

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Faculty associations at the crossroads

Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage

Faculty associations must increase their community and political engagement to navigate a challenging new era.

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OCUFA at 50

Carol Anderson

Looking back at five decades of change, challenge, and growth in Ontario’s university sector.

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The bare feet of a couple who are in bed together

Collective Bargaining and Campus Bedrooms

Aniko Varpalotai and Mike Dawes

University administration proposals dealing with personal relationships have had more to do with control over, and performance management of, faculty members than with concerns about equity and harassment.

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Strike Vote

Karen Dubinsky

Things I never thought I would do:  today I went to my union meeting and voted in a strike vote. On a […]

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How Influential are Faculty Today? Responses from the Canadian Professoriate

Amy Scott Metcalfe, Donald Fisher, Yves Gingras, Glen A. Jones, Kjell Rubenson, and Iain Snee

How are the pressure to publish or perish, fiscal austerity, and the growing ascendancy of managers combining to affect the influence of faculty on academic life?

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The Real Case Against Tenure

Pat Finn

A lot of nonsense is paraded as truth in arguments favouring getting rid of tenure. They are of the sort that show […]

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