What will the future of the academy look like? It’s a big question with infinite answers. The latest issue of Academic Matters , published in Summer 2022, focused on the long arc of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for teaching, learning, and research. This issue was also the last for outgoing editor-in-chief Ben Lewis. Thank […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Gender pay gap: It’s roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors across a lifetime “There are substantial, long-term impacts from the gender pay gap for faculty at Canadian universities. Recent research from our multidisciplinary team, which includes […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Connecting people, ideas, and disciplines at Congress 2022 “In a few short weeks, scholars from nearly 40 different academic disciplines will gather virtually for the 91st annual Congress of the Humanities […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Are there ever really ‘financial reasons’ to fire faculty? Laurentian University, academic freedom, and the disciplining of the professoriate “The 2020–21 academic year saw two incidents of Ontario professors being effectively fired: the termination of 116 of the 345 professors at Laurentian […]
OCUFA is proud to announce that Nicholas Hune-Brown has been awarded the Canadian Hillman Prize for Journalism for The Shadowy Business of International Education, an article he wrote with the support of the Mark Rosenfeld Fellowship in Higher Education Journalism. The Hillman Prize has honoured journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good since 1950.
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: The long fight against sexual assault and harassment at universities “With the return to university campuses this fall, there have been disturbing reports of both sexual assaults and sexist incidents. At Western University, […]
Universities are designed as spaces where minds are nurtured—where expertise develops and new knowledge is generated. However, under academic, financial, and social pressures, faculty and students are more frequently reporting poor mental health—especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest issue of Academic Matters explores the mental health dilemma in the academy. In a space that […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Banning large university parties won’t work — students need to be empowered to propose change By Wendy Craig, Queen’s University, Ontario and Klodiana Kolomitro, Queen’s University, Ontario “Every year instructors carefully plan what they’re going to teach during […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: The art of good teaching By John Oughton “After I retired from a decade of leading faculty orientations and workshops at Toronto’s Centennial College, I wondered what to […]
Laurentian University insolvency reflects a structural crisis in Ontario’s neoliberal university system By David Leadbeater “On February 1 the Laurentian University president and board got what they wanted from Ontario Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz: “This Court orders and declares that the Applicant [Laurentian] is insolvent and is a company to which the CCAA applies.” The CCAA—Companies’ Creditors Arrangement…” When the Government comes for you, you better have academic freedom By Marc Spooner, University of Regina “Every so often, […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Public money, private profit: A history of U of T’s MaRS Discovery District By Chelsea Tao and Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto “It is well known that the University of Toronto (U of T) has historically […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Indigenizing the collective bargaining process at North Island College An interview with Janis Almond, Evelyn Voyageur, Erin McConomy, Shirley Ackland, and Jen Wrye “North Island College began in 1975 as an open, […]
The latest issue of Academic Matters is out now. Contributors reflect on how the pandemic has impacted faculty and students struggling to balance their professional and personal lives. Read the issue for free online: The academy’s neoliberal response to COVID-19: Why faculty should be wary and how we can push back Honor Brabazon, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo Canadian universities have reacted to the pandemic with neoliberal approaches that […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: The ugly side of performance-based funding for universities By Marc Spooner, University of Regina “With the economic and labour disruption wrought by COVID-19, for a time it seemed Ontario and Alberta […]
There is more to Academic Matters than just the print issue. New articles are being added to the Academic Matters website every week. Here are some recent articles you might find interesting: Indigenization through collective bargaining: Lessons and ideas for academic staff associations By Spy Dénommé-Welch and Larry Savage, Brock University “In June 2020, members of the Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA) ratified a new collective […]
