Topic: Universities and the academic mission
Collective bargaining, Corporatization and commercialization, Politics, Universities and the academic mission
University strikes in the UK: Why they’re happening and what you need to know
shutterstock/Ray Morgan Eight days of strike action announced by academics will run November 25 until December 4. After that, industrial action will […]
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission
The corporatization of the university budget and its consequences for academic support workers
As governments and administrators increasingly run universities like private corporations, academic support workers find their working conditions deteriorating and their jobs threatened. […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Universities don’t control the labour market: we shouldn’t fund them like they do
Some people are more employable than others. from shutterstock.com From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on […]
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The problem with the push for more degrees
RIDTHISING/Shutterstock.com In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion […]
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The ‘slow professor’ could bring back creativity to our universities
Creative, social and family life should not be banished from the knowledge economy. (Shutterstock) Last summer, a friend gave me a copy […]
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Le « slow professor » ou comment retrouver la créativité dans nos universités
Il est temps de pratiquer une certaine dissidence au sein même de l’université. shutterstock L’été dernier, une amie m’a remis le livre […]
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International issues, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Shifting priorities in the new university
The image of universities composed of mostly full-time tenured professors is long out-of-date. Half of all undergraduate students in Canada, as in […]
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Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Public engagement, Public policy, Students, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Bringing Indigenous viewpoints to higher education
For this issue, Ojibway author and journalist Tanya Talaga sat down with Victoria McMurchy from Academic Matters to discuss how Canadian postsecondary […]
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Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
The role of faculty associations following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
As universities take on the work of Indigenization, what role do faculty and faculty associations have in advancing the recommendations of the […]
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