Professional Issues
In the expanded version of a paper given at the 2012 ACCUTE conference, in a panel organized by the Committee for Professional Concerns, Julia Wright (Dalhousie) considers the “problem of governance” in the contemporary research university. She writes: “Universities need an idea of academic citizenship that will … […]
“Contract academic staff are under attack,” reads the opening banner to the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT) website posting for Fair Employment Week, October 21-25. ACCUTE agrees. We are working now on statistics, but some recent postings have indicated that about one-half of the teaching undergraduate students […]
“The corporate attack on the university” is scarcely news, writes Peter Fettner in his 2011 academia.edu essay on “The Crisis in the Humanities”. http://www.academia.edu/875988/The_Crisis_in_the_Humanities_and_the_Corporate_Attack_on_the_University And if you do anything with social media, you’ve already seen some of the many web postings that strike back in support of humanities […]
We’ve just witnessed the birth of a new advocacy website for the humanities in Canada: http://www.whydoesitmatter.ca/ This blog emerged out of a TransCanada Institute Think Tank project on emerging scholars, which ACCUTE blogged about on April 16th: http://accute.ca/2013/04/16/the-76/ And it’s hard to imagine a more timely intervention into […]
By: LISA SURRIDGE AND TIMOTHY ILES; Taken from:http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-calculating-the-net-worth-of-the-humanities-1.310427 Thousands of delegates to the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences have descended upon the University of Victoria this week from across the country and, indeed, around the world. There could be nothing better for the local economy: eight days of […]
