Yesterday the “invitation” below went out to members of the “College of Social Sciences and Humanities” at the University of Alberta. The invitation is for “small group” meetings with the two candidates for the role of “College Dean” — a position that the university community roundly rejected in the “restructuring” of Fall 2020 and for which the Board of Governors refused to let the General Faculties Council play its statutory role in recommending on the policy for how these new senior administrators are to be selected.
The invitation offers meetings with four groups:
Senior Administrators, Associate Deans and Department Chairs
APOs & MAPS/Directors of Centres/Institutes [APOs and MAPs are different kinds of administrative officers]
Academic Teaching Staff [academics on short-term contracts who are poorly compensated for their teaching]
Support Staff [the constituency decimated in the restructuring driven by the over half a billion dollars in compounded cuts to the University’s budget by the United Conservative Party government]
I wrote asking how the invitation could be correct when there was no meeting scheduled for faculty — academic staff on full-time continuing contracts, you know, the people upon whom the University vitally depends but which it has been treating increasingly badly.
Quite something, isn’t it, when university administrators forget that the University has faculty?
The University now proposes that faculty can join the “Academic Teaching Staff” for their small group meeting.
Arts Squared 
I was about to write “unbelievable!” Apparently not.