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Advancing equity and fairness through collective bargaining
Building more equitable and diverse universities is vital, but it can be challenging. By integrating equity into their bargaining process and prioritizing […]
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Pushing ahead: Advancing collective bargaining rights in the library
Well-resourced libraries are core to advancing the goals of the academy and the work of faculty and students. Often overlooked due to […]
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Bargaining in the shadow of BC’s Public Sector Employers’ Council
For three decades, the wages, benefits, and language British Columbia’s faculty associations are able to negotiate have been restricted by the government. […]
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Trending towards inequality: Understanding the role of universities in the rise of contract academic work
The 1990s are key to understanding how Ontario’s postsecondary institutions have systematically entrenched economic inequality between contract and tenure-stream faculty. Even with […]
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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
The academic research environment is changing and researchers report struggling to adapt in order to be successful. Funding shortfalls are perennial, but […]
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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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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
For decades, students’ unions have been raising concerns about skyrocketing tuition fees. Now, in an obscene twist, the Ford government is using […]
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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”
Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]
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Identifying the gaps: Reflecting on a career pursuing understanding and equity in academia
Upon retiring, Professor Donald C. Cole took some time to consider his career at the University of Toronto. In doing so, he […]
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