Professional Issues
Hello all, The ACCUTE office has been alerted to a potential threat to Wilfrid Laurier University Press, a press with which several of our members have published, and which has worked with ACCUTE’s “Celebration of Research” at the last two conferences–WLUP is part of the larger ACCUTE community. […]
As you know from my column in our Fall 2014 newsletter, the ACCUTE office hopes to open up our blog somewhat, to tell more stories of the many people who together make up our association, our disciplines, and our professions. I happened to mention this hope during a […]
As some of you will have seen from our twitter feed or elsewhere,* the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program is currently developing an Open Access policy. They have asked for input from the wider scholarly community. There are many and differing opinions on the subject, especially regarding mandatory open access policies. The possibilities offered […]
From the President’s Column, ACCUTE Summer 2014 Newsletter: Ours is essentially a corporatizing age, and I was struck by an “Inside Higher Education” newsfeed item in April telling of a study that had found that tenured and tenure-track (TT) postsecondary professors in North America contribute on average 61 […]
By Ann Martin, ACCUTE campus representative, University of Saskatchewan The day after Robert Buckingham, the now former Executive Director of the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan, was stripped of his title and tenure, and escorted off the campus by security, my cousin—Managing Director of the Canadian […]
