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What’s at stake at the University of Alberta General Faculties Council on Monday (7 December 2020)
Copy of post to the Members’ Forum for the Association of Academic Staff (AASUA) Text of the first document referred to as “attached” is copied in below. Dear Colleagues, Monday’s meeting of the General Faculties Council may very well be … Continue reading
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Tagged academic restructuring, executive deans, interdisciplinarity, kenney government, nous group, student experience, ualberta general faculties council
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Fiscal Destruction: Kenney Government Wages War on Alberta’s Universities and Colleges
With last week’s budget, the Kenney government affirmed its commitment to radically undermining Alberta’s postsecondary education system. The response from the leaders of Alberta’s postsecondary institutions? The University of Calgary’s President, Ed McAuley, supports the drastic cuts, saying that “This … Continue reading
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Open Letter: Why AASUA Members Must Not Ratify the Gender Pay Equity MOA (7 April 2019)
Dear Colleagues, There is no doubt that we have pay equity problems at the University of Alberta, and that these must be remedied. Unfortunately, the proposed “Memorandum of Agreement” before us is not the right remedy. It should be voted … Continue reading
President Turpin’s Communication of 1 March 2019 | Ronning Centre Event Cancellation Notice (21 March 2019)
I’ve been asked to provide the text of David Turpin’s communication as University of Alberta President (1 March 2019) to Deans, Chairs, and Directors. I gather some Chairs put it immediately into wider circulation while some did not, so the … Continue reading
Turpin Communication Undermines Academic Freedom, Curtails Free Speech
Earlier this week, Alberta Politics blogger David Climenhaga published a blogpost in which he noted that a University of Alberta event at the Augustana campus had been cancelled as a result of a communication that UAlberta president David Turpin had … Continue reading
Open Letter from Professor Garry Watson (English & Film Studies) on the Centre for Writers (To be discussed at the General Faculties Council meeting of 30 May 2016)
Dear Colleagues, Many thanks to those of you who were able to attend Arts Faculty Council on Wednesday afternoon. As you know, the motion was passed to advise the Provost to delay by one year the decision to move the … Continue reading
Docherty: For Sake of Democracy Academic Freedom Should Be “Extended As Widely As Possible”
A few days ago Thomas Docherty, Professor of English at the University of Warwick, published his most recent contribution to the UK’s Times Higher Education Supplement. The claims Docherty makes there are directly relevant to the culture of the University of … Continue reading
What’s in a Name?: Lougheed, Buffett, Shakespeare (Report from the General Faculties Council Meeting, 3 February 2014)
Collegial governance is not having an easy time of it at the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council (GFC). Four items came before the Council at its meeting last Monday, with only one of these an action item, and items … Continue reading
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