Two Ways of Looking at Academic Hiring
One of the endlessly recurring debates in Canadian higher education concerns whether institutions are properly investing in faculty. It’s never entirely clear what “properly” means – the goalposts move a bit depending on who is talking. Sometimes it’s about faculty hiring lagging behind student enrolment, sometimes it’s faculty not getting their “share” of money coming into universities. The comparator varies, but the ratio is always claimed to be moving in the wrong direction. This blog seeks to examine this claim







