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Academic mentorship, Teaching and learning

John S. Saul: a passionate scholar

Thomas Klassen

In a long career and life, there are ample opportunities to take sides, make judgements, and reach firm conclusions. This is perhaps […]

History, Politics

Obama and the Crash: reshaping the intellectual agenda in Canada

James Laxer

Major developments in American politics and society always provoke some combination of consternation, envy, imitation, rejection, or righteous indignation north of the […]

Gender Equity and the Tensions of Tenure

Sandra Acker

Is academic tenure a gender issue? In the mid-1990s, a study of academic work produced responses like the following from women faculty […]

The Real Case Against Tenure

Pat Finn

A lot of nonsense is paraded as truth in arguments favouring getting rid of tenure. They are of the sort that show […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Are Tenured Faculty Slackers?

James Soto Antony and Ruby Hayden

The word tenure, when used as a search term on ratemyprofessor.com, results in more than ratings for professors—it also showcases pervasive ideas […]

The Tenure Blues

Mark Kingwell

Is the institution of tenure supportable? No, but not for the reasons you may think. Routine complaints about iron-clad job security and […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Why Tenure Has No Future

Michael Bliss

Academic tenure as we have known has become largely irrelevant but is so unpopular that it does serious harm to the professoriate […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure

The case for tenure

Michiel Horn

What is it about tenure that gets some people so upset? That it grants certain employees a security not available to others? […]

Editorials, Ethics

The ethical challenges in academia

Mark Rosenfeld

In Illinois, state ethics legislation requires all public employees, including university faculty, to participate in ethics training and to be examined annually […]

Humour