OTTAWA, March 19, 2019 — The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences applauds the federal government’s Budget 2019 commitment to increase learning opportunities for Canadians in a complex and rapidly changing world. Especially important is the government’s commitment to expand the Student Work-Integrated Learning Program, which will create new […]
As a result of conversations with a number of our members across the country at all stages of the profession over the past three months, the ACCUTE executive concluded that we needed to issue a follow-up to Past President Manina Jones’ thoughtful January 2018 statement regarding sexual harassment […]
Thank you to Jason Haslam, Chair of the Department of English at Dalhousie University (and ACCUTE past president) for responding so eloquently and forcefully to Margaret Wente’s recent column about Dalhousie and English literature studies in Canada more broadly. Curiosity matters and ACCUTE supports our colleagues at Dalhousie and […]
In this guest blog, Dr. Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) considers his path from graduate school to the job market, musing on the stories we tell ourselves through such experiences and how those stories can change in fruitful and unexpected ways. The first story I told myself about my […]
Elan Paulson (Western) and Morgan Rooney (Carleton) are presenting the ACCUTE-sponsored panel, “Changing by Degrees: The Impact of the New Approaches to the PhD upon Research and Practice in English,” along with Josh Lambier (Western), Paul Yachnin (McGill), and Heather Zwicker (Alberta), chaired by Mark McDayter (Western). In […]
