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- Read this! Dutch Study on “Baseline Grant” System for Research Funding (Guest Post by Andrew Gow)
- Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Albertanae; or WrestleMania: University SmackDown (Guest Post by Kathleen Lowrey)
- “Whatsoever things are true”? GFC votes to allow continuing use of possibly discriminatory USRIs
- Comments on the Recent GFC USRIs Report (Guest Post by Michelle Maroto, Sociology)
- GFC and the USRIs: How Should Teaching Evaluations at the University of Alberta Be Used?
- MLCS is going generic or, Why French will no longer be an exception (Guest Post by Sathya Rao, Modern Languages & Cultural Studies)
- In the Journal today: Kathleen Lowrey (Anthropology) on “flexibility,” “experiential learning” and other curricular matters
- Reflexions on the Arts Faculty Council discussion of the MLCS BA proposal (Guest Post by Marisa Bortolussi)
- Responses to the Proposal for a New Modern Languages and Cultural Studies BA (Guest Post by Marisa Bortolussi)
- Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (Guest Post by Dougal MacDonald, Elementary Education)
- GSEC: Open Letter to ab-GPAC, GSAs, and Minister of Advanced Education (27 February 2017)
- Open Letter from Professor Katherine Binhammer (EFS): Reject BA Core Proposal at Arts Faculty Council on Nov. 24th
- Brad Bucknell (English & Film Studies) on the arguments at Arts Faculty Council on the transformation of the Centre for Writers
- Professor Moussu Speaks Out on Centre for Writers Changes Sought by Faculty of Arts (Open Letter)
- Professor Sargent Responds to Provost’s Document on Situation with Centre for Wrtiers
- 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)
- Open Letter from Betsy Sargent (English & Film Studies): Do Not Let Faculty of Arts Undermine Centre for Writers
- Academic Freedom and “Respectful Dialogue” at UAlberta’s Faculty of Arts: Response to Message from the Dean
- Kick Out the Jams (Post by Kathleen Lowrey, Anthropology)
- Open Letter to Minister of Advanced Education Lori Sigurdson on the Rewriting of the Post-Secondary Learning Act
- Efficiency of What? (Post by Kathleen Lowrey, Anthropology)
- Notes on Rewriting the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Draft Clauses for Open Letter to Minister of Advanced Education)
- OpEd to be submitted to Edmonton Journal: Criteria for Selection of New Chair of the Board of Governors
- Sunshine, with a Great Many Black Clouds: Alberta Bill 5 (First Reading, 5 November 2015)
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Author Archives: Arts Squared
Read this! Dutch Study on “Baseline Grant” System for Research Funding (Guest Post by Andrew Gow)
Dear colleagues, I urge you to read this thought piece on our current research funding model. It presents a simple and cost-effective alternative to our current labour-intensive method of allocating funding. The potential results are surprising. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0183967#pone-0183967-t001 Just as our … Continue reading
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Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Albertanae; or WrestleMania: University SmackDown (Guest Post by Kathleen Lowrey)
I have read the recent contributions of my colleagues Michelle Maroto and Carolyn Sale on the debate around the use of teaching evaluations at the University with considerable interest and appreciation. They take up a question that has generated wide … Continue reading
“Whatsoever things are true”? GFC votes to allow continuing use of possibly discriminatory USRIs
At its meeting Monday afternoon the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council (GFC) voted to endorse a set of recommendations from the Committee on the Learning Environment (CLE) that allows the University’s Universal Student Ratings of Instruction (USRIs) to continue … Continue reading
Comments on the Recent GFC USRIs Report (Guest Post by Michelle Maroto, Sociology)
Student evaluations and how to use them have been common topics for discussion here and at other universities for many years. As a result, I wasn’t surprised to see yet another report and set of summary recommendations from the UofA … Continue reading
GFC and the USRIs: How Should Teaching Evaluations at the University of Alberta Be Used?
This is a brief post meant to stimulate conversation about a question faculty and other instructors across campus should be asking: in a decade in which studies indicating that student evaluations of teaching involve bias against certain groups of instructors, … Continue reading
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MLCS is going generic or, Why French will no longer be an exception (Guest Post by Sathya Rao, Modern Languages & Cultural Studies)
Modelled after the modern languages departments at the universities of Exeter (UK), Sheffield (UK), and Saint Louis (US), the controversial Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS) major proposal – which passed last May 25 at Arts Faculty Council – is … Continue reading
In the Journal today: Kathleen Lowrey (Anthropology) on “flexibility,” “experiential learning” and other curricular matters
In the Edmonton Journal today: Kathleen Lowrey (Anthropology) contributes to the debate on what the Social Studies curriculum for K-12 and our own should (and should not) involve. Or, as she puts it, “And now, a withering view of flexibility from … Continue reading
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