[Ed. note: The post below is offered as part of our ongoing series of opinion pieces. ACCUTE members may propose opinion pieces for the blog, provided they engage issues of interest to the broader ACCUTE membership; if accepted, they are subject to editing for length and other matters. This […]
Each year at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACCUTE announces the winner of the F.E.L. Priestley Prize, which recognizes and acknowledges the best essay published in our scholarly journal English Studies in Canada over the past year. This year’s winner is George […]
As you all know, Fort McMurray, Alberta, was recently devastated by a massive wildfire that forced the evacuation of the entire city and nearby communities. Many of those who have been displaced are currently being hosted by Alberta universities, including our Congress host, the University of Calgary. Today, the […]
[Ed. note: Many of you will have heard about the proposed cuts to public libraries in Newfoundland and Labrador. Our colleagues at the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians/l’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels have recently released a letter on the issue. ACCUTE member Danine Farquharson (MUN) has written the […]
[Ed. note: The post below, by Ross Bullen (OCAD), is offered as part of our ongoing series of opinion pieces, and is being simultaneously published in our Spring Newsletter. The ACCUTE executive approached Ross about attending the OCUFA conference on our behalf, and to provide this report to […]
