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Upgrade Anxiety and the Aging Expert
By definition university professors are experts in their fields. Given the laws of the universe, however, professors are also aging experts. Not […]
READ MOREBecoming Prof 2.0
In October 2010, “So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities” was posted on YouTube and began to circulate rapidly […]
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 […]
READ MOREChallenges, Opportunities, and New Expectations
Last term, having received a request from the campus Disability Services Office, I asked my lecture class of 700 students for volunteers […]
READ MOREThe Professor as Mass Communicator?
While much about being a university professor has remained unchanged for centuries, the way today’s academics research, teach, and fulfil administrative duties […]
READ MOREZen and the Art of Metacognition: Quality-Based Discrimination, Peer Assessment & Technology
In 1974, Robert M. Pirsig wrote a book entitled “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, within which he provided a philosophical […]
READ MOREEditorial Matters – Reflections
With this issue, my editorship of Academic Matters comes to a close. Endings also herald new directions as the editorship passes to […]
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A Political Pedagogy, or In Lieu of Dismantling the University
How does the ongoing constriction of academic freedom reverberate in the classroom? If academics cannot take a stand without risking formal or subtle censure, and so choose not to risk, how can we ask students to?
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Living Publicly on Campus: Social Media and Its Discontents
There’s little point in adopting a reactionary approach to the pervasive use of social media on campus. Members of the university community are deciding how social media works on campus, and they will work through the problems as they arise.
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Sexual harassment cases on campus: How have labour arbitrators ruled?
Labour arbitrators recognize there’s an important social component to academic life, within limits. Labour-side lawyer Cynthia Petersen reviews Canadian arbitral jurisprudence and how arbitrators have decided in thorny cases involving sexual harassment.
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