Topic: Governance

Faculty associations, Governance

Lessons from the eye of the storm: Chakmagate and Western University

By Alison Hearn and Vanessa Brown

The controversy around presidential pay at Western proved to be a flashpoint for taking back control.

Faculty issues, Free speech and expression rights, Governance

Obscuring transparency and silencing dissent

By Root Gorelick

An account of attacks on openness and deliberation by someone at the centre of the governance controversy.

Editorials, Governance

Editor Matters: Whose University is it anyway?

By Graeme Stewart

The past few years have seen university governance jump from relative obscurity and into the headlines. How universities are run is suddenly […]

Governance, Research and innovation

Doing the PPP: a skeptical perspective

By Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton

Program prioritization—all the rage at Canadian campuses—may be more trouble than it is worth.

Governance, Public policy

University Governance: Reflections from the Future U Conference

By Nick Falvo

Last week, I spoke on a panel on university governance at a conference titled Future U: Creating the Universities We Want, organized […]

Editorials, Governance, Public policy

Into the program prioritization debate

Last week, we published an article by Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton on program prioritization. For the uninitiated, program prioritization is a […]

Governance, Public policy

Doing the PPP: A skeptical perspective

By Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton

So-called “program prioritization processes” have been a hot topic at American and Ontario universities. But as Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton argue, the cost of PPP is much higher than many administrators realize.

Governance, Libraries, Politics

Contempt for values: The controversy over Library and Archives Canada’s Code of Conduct

By Myron Groover

Library and Archives Canada has introduced a new code of conduct that contains worrying restrictions for its employees. Myron Groover asks how the organization can fulfill its mandate while stifling the ethics and values of the library and archival professions.

Governance, Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Libraries

Access Copyright: University libraries give up on the copyright go-between

By Nick Falvo

Access Copyright is much like the Blockbuster Video of Canadian university libraries. At one time, it seemed indispensable. Today, it’s almost obsolete.

Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission

The Last Professors: A eulogy to “the Last Good Job in America”

By Emily Gregor Greenleaf

Frank Donoghue: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham University Press, 2008)