Topic: Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Northern Ontario needs more local post-secondary education — and the province’s funding

Avery Beall, Nipissing University and David Zarifa, Nipissing University

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

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 […]

Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Participation and enrolment, Public policy

Canada should support diversity in STEM to encourage innovative research

Jennifer D. Adams, University of Calgary

Women from racialized communities in STEM education face the double bind of race and gender. (Shutterstock) Attracting and retaining diverse students in […]

Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Indigenizing the collective bargaining process at North Island College

Janis Almond, Evelyn Voyageur, Erin McConomy, Shirley Ackland, and Jen Wrye

The following interview was conducted with leaders at the North Island College Faculty Association. They responded collectively as a group. Could you […]

Funding, Health and safety, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Students, Teaching and learning

Nursing students facing tough choices in order to graduate during the pandemic

Chantelle Cruzat-Whervin

The COVID-19 pandemic has put incredible strain on healthcare systems around the world. In Ontario, healthcare workers are in high demand. However, […]

Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Performance assessment, Teaching and learning

What to do with student evaluations of teaching?

Theresa Man Ling Lee, University of Guelph

It has been two years since the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations published the Report of the OCUFA Student Questionnaires on […]

Collective bargaining, Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Indigenization through collective bargaining: Lessons and ideas for academic staff associations

Spy Dénommé-Welch and Larry Savage, Brock University

Introduction In June 2020, members of the Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA) ratified a new collective agreement that contained important contract provisions […]

Equity and social justice, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Students

Combatting anti-Blackness at Canadian universities means improving Black representation