Topic: Funding

Funding, Public policy, Tuition and student fees

Drop tuition fees: University students face a precarious future amid COVID-19

Alison Taylor, University of British Columbia

A man on a skateboard and a young woman pass large letters spelling out UBC at the University of British Columbia in […]

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Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

Building an anti-racist campus means fundamentally rethinking institutional structures and practices

Siobhan Stevenson, University of Toronto

I can take no credit for the ideas about institutional change reflected here; rather I credit The Massey Dialogues: on Anti-Black Racism […]

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Funding, Online education, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

How do faculty and administrators imagine the future of higher education in Canada?

George Veletsianos, Royal Roads University; Nicole Johnson, Canadian Digital Learning Research Association; and Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics

To address immediate health concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities in Canada rapidly transitioned to online and blended learning options […]

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Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy

COVID-19 reveals the folly of performance-based funding for universities

Marc Spooner, University of Regina

Universities’ funding can’t be judged against metrics such as student employment or salary outcomes over which universities have little control. (Shutterstock) The […]

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Equity and social justice, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy

Should university and college funding be tied to how many students graduate?

Denisa Gandara, Southern Methodist University

Colleges are increasingly being judged on how many students graduate. But is tying funding to graduation rates the way to go? George […]

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Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Funding

Capitalist creep on campus: the largest, quietest privatisation in UK history – it’s why we’re striking

Martin Parker, University of Bristol

Pexels For the next week and a half, many UK university lecturers will be on strike again, but who outside of academia […]

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Contract faculty, Editorials, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation

Editorial Matters: Economics and inequality

Ben Lewis

It is commonly understood that postsecondary education ought to focus on fostering curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and vigorous debate, with the goal […]

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Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work

Kimberly Ellis-Hale and Glen Copplestone

The 1990s are key to understanding how Ontario’s postsecondary institutions have systematically entrenched economic inequality between contract and tenure-stream faculty. Even with […]

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Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

Healthy research ecosystem—healthy researchers? The researcher as an organism of focus within a research ecosystem

Michelle L.A. Nelson and Ross Upshur

The academic research environment is changing and researchers report struggling to adapt in order to be successful. Funding shortfalls are perennial, but […]

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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

The corporatization of the university budget and its consequences for academic support workers

Janice Folk-Dawson

As governments and administrators increasingly run universities like private corporations, academic support workers find their working conditions deteriorating and their jobs threatened. […]

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