Governance - Academic Matters

A group of students wearing graduation hats

Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

What happens if a university goes bust?

Robert MacIntosh, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Faculty strike on a picket line outside a building

Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement, Public policy

Why labour strife at universities should concern us all

Andrew Biro, Acadia University; Joseph Hayes, Acadia University, and Rachel K. Brickner, Acadia University

A professor speaks to students in a lecture hall.

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

Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, International issues

Why big university surpluses in Australia underscore the need to reform how they are funded and governed

Damien Cahill, University of Sydney

The election of a new Labor federal government probably drew sighs of relief across the higher education sector. University staff and students […]

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

Honor Brabazon, St. Jerome’s University

The 2020–21 academic year saw two incidents of Ontario professors being effectively fired: the termination of 116 of the 345 professors at […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Governance

2 out of 3 members of Australian university governing bodies have no professional expertise in the sector. There’s the making of a crisis

Shutterstock To say Australian universities are in crisis is to state the obvious. A common narrative suggests the most immediate cause of […]

Governance, Health and safety, Politics, Public policy

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccines on university campuses: An obvious solution or a problem?

Peter A. Newman, University of Toronto and Adrian Guta, University of Windsor

People line up outside the University of Toronto Mississauga campus for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Mississauga, Ont., in May. THE CANADIAN […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Participation and enrolment, Public policy, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Tuition and student fees

Laurentian University insolvency reflects a structural crisis in Ontario’s neoliberal university system

David Leadbeater

On February 1 the Laurentian University president and board got what they wanted from Ontario Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz: “This Court orders and […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, History, Public policy, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission

Public money, private profit: A history of U of T’s MaRS Discovery District

Chelsea Tao and Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto

It is well known that the University of Toronto (U of T) has historically played an important role in scientific innovation. This […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Students, Tuition and student fees

With campus co-operatives, universities could model new ways of living after COVID-19

Michelle Stack, University of British Columbia

Crises bring renewed interest in co-operatives. (BlackDaffodil/Flickr), CC BY-NC Even before COVID-19, things weren’t going all that well on post-secondary campuses across […]

Topic: Governance

What happens if a university goes bust?

Why labour strife at universities should concern us all

New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk

Why big university surpluses in Australia underscore the need to reform how they are funded and governed

Are there ever really ‘financial reasons’ to fire faculty? Laurentian University, academic freedom, and the disciplining of the professoriate

2 out of 3 members of Australian university governing bodies have no professional expertise in the sector. There’s the making of a crisis

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccines on university campuses: An obvious solution or a problem?

Laurentian University insolvency reflects a structural crisis in Ontario’s neoliberal university system

Public money, private profit: A history of U of T’s MaRS Discovery District

With campus co-operatives, universities could model new ways of living after COVID-19

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