…no. Increasing enrolment by 1.7 per cent annually, while holding operating grants to 1.5 per cent, will compound the universities chronic financial problems and further erode the quality of higher…
READ MORE…because tenured or tenure-track professors create them. There is No Academic Freedom Without Tenure Tenure is the chief guarantor of the intellectual freedom that makes it possible for faculty members…
READ MORE…college communities (university faculty would ordinarily question this practice). Master’s and PhD holders in the Arts also told us how relieved they were to find a full-time position (with benefits)…
READ MOREIt is commonly assumed that junior (pre-tenure) professors work much harder and have lower levels of job satisfaction than their more senior (tenured) peers. A new study of Canadian university…
READ MORE…of communication). These commitments were necessarily embodied in live practice in the classroom. Know-how compromised online The modern research university, since the late 19th century, has tended to prioritize “knowing-that”…
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…Universities could have some control of this by gauging the professional capabilities of students that employers consider important. These include teamwork, communication, critical thinking and problem solving. Students complete the…
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