Proudly attending @ocufa.bsky.social Board in Toronto this weekend, as Member at Large, with @cuasa.ca Executive Director J. Horton & External Officer M. Chakravorty (virtually). Meeting with friends of 29 other faculty associations.
New & hopeful campaign from Universities Canada on the transformative role universities play in communities, research, innovation, & economic development. univcan.ca/possiblewithu/ - Friends & colleagues of @cuasa.ca @carleton.ca @ocufa.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social , have a look.
A better life for every Canadian, made Possible With U From the first day a student steps onto campus to the moment a new discovery changes how we live, Canadian universities are shaping the future […...
‘Another effect of the funding system introduced in 2012 has been to provide rich pickings for private institutions.
Arden University, which obtained degree-granting powers in 2014, may be the biggest UK university you’ve never heard of.’
Stefan Collini
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‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’
Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters.
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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
In the age of AI, “we risk turning our colleges into joyless job preparation, political death matches, or both,” Michael A. Elliott, the president of Amherst College, argues. “We’ve forgotten … that thinking can be deeply pleasurable.”
At our meeting this weekend, the OCUFA Board said NO to political interference in public universities and YES to collaborating with faculty experts to design teaching and learning programs! Read our submission to the ON Govt: tinyurl.com/avpdkhff
A new special edition of the CAUT Journal guest co-edited by @profsavage.bsky.social & Susan Spronk all about organizing for power in Canada’s university sector is now online!
Read it at journal.caut.ca
Un nouveau numéro spécial du Journal de l’ACPPU coédité par Larry Savage et Susan Spronk portant sur la mobilisation pour le pouvoir dans le secteur universitaire canadien est maintenant disponible en ligne!
Lisez-le sur journal.caut.ca
