Contractually Bound
We need a national strategy to reform EI rules that acknowledges the specific labour conditions of sessional teachers.
One of the unfortunate realities facing many adjuncts is the need to rely on employment insurance between teaching periods. Although there’s no shame in relying on funds that you’ve paid into, it does underscore the problem facing adjuncts. Summer teaching positions are thin on the ground due to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/contractually-bound/contractually-bound-long-hard-summer/
Speculative Diction
To start out this shiny new year, we’ve already seen another example of something that has happened several times over the past 12 months: the Higher Ed News Fiasco. This time we can thank Forbes Magazine, specifically Susan Adams, for presenting us with
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/more-higher-ed-media-madness/
From PhD to Life
Alison Norman earned her PhD in history from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She's currently a Research Advisor in the Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. She’s also a Research Associate in the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous St...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-alison-norman/
Features
Campus art galleries today are much more than collections of art hanging on walls.
For two years, curators at Galerie de l’UQAM, the art gallery at Université du Québec à Montréal, travelled the country, visiting studios, galleries and art fairs in search of artists who best represent contemporary painting in Canada. Out of 500 artists considered, 60 were eventually selected...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/university-art-galleries-reach-out-to-a-wider-community/
News
One challenge is how to avoid postsecondary institutions themselves determining the validity of an individual’s claim of Indigeneity.
For many people, reading about the case of Carrie Bourassa felt like déjà vu. Claiming variously Métis, Anishinaabe and Tlingit roots, Dr. Bourassa was a respected professor at the University of Saskatchewan and director of its Institute of Indigenous People’s Health. As such, she was ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-look-to-combat-indigenous-identity-fraud-after-string-of-recent-cases/
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