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Category: Academia

Manitoba on Strike (Again)

To Winnipeg, where the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) has gone on strike for the second time in five years.  It probably won’t be the last institution to see labour action this year (see Ken Steele’s very good round-up of boiling-over labour issues here).  The main issue is over money.  UMFA’s central claim is that its members have lower salaries than anyone else in the U-15 and that over the past few years UFMA have lost approximately 8% of

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November 4, 2021 3 Comments

Water

Big day at HESA Towers as it’s the return of our Academic Programs Team’s series Monitoring Trends in Academic Programming (MTAP), a project led by Jonathan McQuarrie.   This edition is about programs which focus on Water, and you can read it here. It’s also the first MTAP with a co-author, Tiffany MacLennan.  And if you like that, do read our previous issues on there are previous editions on programming in Health, programming in  Agriculture/ Aquaculture and in the Humanities. The keen eyed among you

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October 28, 2021 No Comments

‘til September

So, it’s that time of year when I say farewell to faithful readers for a few months.  This is the last blog of the academic year.  Normal service will resume August 30th. Today also marks the end of this blog’s tenth year.  Which, you know, is a bit terrifying.  Because that means this blog is probably over a million words old.  I’m sure my mother would have preferred I spent all that time on a doctorate.  (You should think about

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June 17, 2021 2 Comments

Truth and Reconciliation Updates

After writing about Ryerson the other day it occurred to me that I should take a look at what institutions have been committing to do with respect to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. When Justice Murray Sinclair issued his 2015 report on Residential Schools and issued his calls to action, a few of these calls related to post-secondary education.  A couple were simply calls for federal funding, but four very specific ones were included with respect to post-secondary

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June 14, 2021 1 Comment

Globe Data Wrongness

On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robyn Doolittle.  On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy.  But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data analysis.  Consider the blog my way of correcting the record. Wang and Doolittle’s data

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June 7, 2021 1 Comment

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