Topic: Hiring, promotion, and tenure
It’s time to invest in a faculty renewal strategy for Ontario’s universities
For years, full-time faculty hiring has stagnated at Ontario’s universities, even as student enrolment has increased dramatically. It’s time for the government […]
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Is there a metric to evaluate tenure?
How much can data meaningfully inform decisions about tenure? If data only tell part of the story, perhaps faculty should be evaluated […]
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Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Journals and publishing, Performance assessment, Research and innovation
The abuses and perverse effects of quantitative evaluation in the academy
The world of academic research is scored according to so-called “objective” measures, with an emphasis on publications and citations. But the very […]
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Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Journals and publishing, Performance assessment, Research and innovation
Dérives et effets pervers de l’évaluation quantitative de la recherche
Les professeurs et les chercheurs universitaires sont de plus en plus évalués à l’aide de mesures dites « objectives », qui mettent […]
READ MORECongress 2017: Challenges to the integrity of academic hiring practices
During Congress 2017, a session on the Challenges to the Integrity of Academic Hiring Practices in the Corporate University encouraged participants to […]
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Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement, Students
The university in the populist age
Right-wing populism threatens the future of higher education, but remaining passive and retreating to a disinterested vision of the university will actually […]
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A populist wake-up call for universities
For many, universities do not represent opportunity or self-realization, but instead elite self-regard and academic exchanges in which they see no relevance. […]
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A personal perspective of contract instructing in Ontario
Contract faculty work in Ontario is unfair, ineffective, and ready for a shakeup.
READ MOREThe Myth of the Academic Generation Gap: Comparing Junior and Senior Faculty in Canada’s Universities
It is commonly assumed that junior (pre-tenure) professors work much harder and have lower levels of job satisfaction than their more senior […]
READ MORETenure and Academic Freedom: The Beginning of the End
Since the Second World War, Canadian and American universities have offered faculty members tenure, the promise of lifetime employment to those who […]
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