Topic: Hiring, promotion, and tenure



A professor speaks to students in a lecture hall.

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

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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 […]

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Canada should support diversity in STEM to encourage innovative research

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

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Combatting anti-Blackness at Canadian universities means improving Black representation

Chantelle Cruzat-Whervin

Throughout the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement has once again drawn attention to anti-Blackness within communities and […]

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