Topic: Funding
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
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
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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Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Funding, Politics, Students, Tuition and student fees
How the “Student Choice Initiative” seeks to silence student voices
For decades, students’ unions have been raising concerns about skyrocketing tuition fees. Now, in an obscene twist, the Ford government is using […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees
As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”
Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Universities don’t control the labour market: we shouldn’t fund them like they do
Some people are more employable than others. from shutterstock.com From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on […]
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Government funding in Australia will be tied to university performance from 2020: what does this mean, and what are the challenges?
“Buildings at University of Sydney – 9”by Ameel Khan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Education minister Dan Tehan met with university […]
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Subsidized privilege: The real scandal of American universities
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged 50 people — 38 of them are parents — for allegedly being involved in fraud schemes to […]
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In Canada and US, fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities
As a new academic year begins after a summer of deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods, many college students and faculty are debating whether and how to get involved in climate politics. Climate advocacy has become well established on U.S. campuses over the past decade, in diverse forms. More than 600 colleges and universities have signed the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment. Schools are expanding interdisciplinary teaching and research in environmental studies, sustainability science and climate resilience, and investing in “greening” their campuses. And many activists on campuses around the country are participating in global campaigns like “Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice” and “Keep it in the Ground.”
READ MOREEditorial Matters: The slow erosion of public university funding
Ontario’s public universities are vital institutions that deliver education to thousands of students, produce thought-provoking and groundbreaking research, and provide good jobs […]
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The case for publicly funded universities
Ontario’s universities are important public spaces that depend on robust public funding to thrive. When the structure of the funding model changes, […]
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