Professional Issues
To the SSHRC Consultation committee, I am writing on behalf of the Research Development Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University to express our concerns about the proposed open-access policy or, perhaps more accurately, the digital-access policy on SSHRC-funded research. SSH research has […]
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 […]
