Examining the distribution of funding

Contract faculty, Editorials, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation

Editorial Matters: Economics and inequality

Ben Lewis

It is commonly understood that postsecondary education ought to focus on fostering curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and vigorous debate, with the goal […]

Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work

Kimberly Ellis-Hale and Glen Copplestone

The 1990s are key to understanding how Ontario’s postsecondary institutions have systematically entrenched economic inequality between contract and tenure-stream faculty. Even with […]

Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

Healthy research ecosystem—healthy researchers? The researcher as an organism of focus within a research ecosystem

Michelle L.A. Nelson and Ross Upshur

The academic research environment is changing and researchers report struggling to adapt in order to be successful. Funding shortfalls are perennial, but […]

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

Janice Folk-Dawson

As governments and administrators increasingly run universities like private corporations, academic support workers find their working conditions deteriorating and their jobs threatened. […]

Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Funding, Politics, Students, Tuition and student fees

How the “Student Choice Initiative” seeks to silence student voices

Felipe Nagata

For decades, students’ unions have been raising concerns about skyrocketing tuition fees. Now, in an obscene twist, the Ford government is using […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees

As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”

Mariana Valverde

Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]

Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Ethics, Faculty associations

Identifying the gaps: Reflecting on a career pursuing understanding and equity in academia

Donald C. Cole

Upon retiring, Professor Donald C. Cole took some time to consider his career at the University of Toronto. In doing so, he […]

Fall 2019

Examining the distribution of funding

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As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”

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