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- “Lies,” “Misinformation,” and “Brave Research”: The Dangers of Kenney’s “War Room”
- AASUA Ratification Vote: What is a Pair of Zeroes Worth?
- Open Letter: Why AASUA Members Must Not Ratify the Gender Pay Equity MOA (7 April 2019)
- Turpin Statement, Questions Remain: Why was event cancelled, and video suppressed?
- President Turpin’s Communication of 1 March 2019 | Ronning Centre Event Cancellation Notice (21 March 2019)
- Turpin Communication Undermines Academic Freedom, Curtails Free Speech
- 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)
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“Lies,” “Misinformation,” and “Brave Research”: The Dangers of Kenney’s “War Room”
Last Friday, in a press conference in which he provided very little by way of actual detail, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made it clear that he intends to use taxpayer money to the whopping tune of $30 million in various … Continue reading
AASUA Ratification Vote: What is a Pair of Zeroes Worth?
This is a public version of a letter posted to the AASUA Members’ Forum on 7 April 2019. Dear Colleagues, I have already written to you about why we must not ratify the Gender Pay Equity MOA. I now write … 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
Turpin Statement, Questions Remain: Why was event cancelled, and video suppressed?
We finally have a statement from President Turpin aiming to clarify his Election Act statement of 1 March 2019. Unfortunately, this second statement does not clarify the crucial issue. It is good that the statement explicitly notes that academic staff and … Continue reading
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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
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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