Professional Issues
As we watch the events of National Adjunct Walkout Day, we wanted to share the below again, written by Erin Wunker, Contract Academic Faculty representative on ACCUTE’s executive. This piece was originally written for Hook and Eye (please go check out all of their wonderful posts), and we […]
By way of a follow-up to yesterday’s post about statistics–or the lack thereof–in relation to academic hiring in Canada, we’d like to call everyone’s attention to this release regarding National Adjunct Walkout Day, scheduled for February 25. The “national” in that name refers to the US, though we […]
It has become a common complaint, across the board, that statistics relating to Canadian higher education are sorely lacking or, when they do exist, are misleading–ACCUTE past-president Stephen Slemon has written about this matter on this very blog. Whether it’s in terms of faculty hiring (and of what sorts), […]
Dalhousie is hosting a two-week summer institute, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Atlantic), affiliated with the DHSI at the University of Victoria. The courses offered aim to provide training in the digital humanities relevant to research and teaching for graduate students, faculty and others. We are pleased to […]
It’s January, and that means a few things: people are busy, for one, what with the end of the first month of term; grant season (which is now concentrated in several points throughout the year–maybe go buy your department’s or faculty’s grants person a drink or some chocolate!)*; […]
