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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]