Precarious teaching staff suffer from chronic underfunding of universities
The Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT) campaign, Fair Employment Week (FEW), is held this year from October 16 to ...
Tag: university
Discrimination is rampant across campuses in New Brunswick
As so many young people are starting up their first weeks of university, it seems like a great time to ...
STATEMENT: Faculty perspectives on university education in New Brunswick
At the end of February 2023, the Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations (FNBFA) appeared before the Select Committee on ...
Will a Higgs majority mean a tuition hike for New Brunswick students?
Now that Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs has most of the seats in the New Brunswick Legislature, there will be ...
Frank McKenna’s $1m gift to Mt. A. stirs excitement and joy, but also concerns about secrecy
Mount Allison University held its first formal gathering in more than six months last Friday to announce the establishment of ...
NB Student Alliance needs to stop asking and start demanding
On March 11, the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA) issued a media release regarding the new provincial budget measures for ...
Mount Allison University heading for second faculty strike in six years
Barring a last-minute breakthrough, it appears that about 150 full-time professors and librarians at Mount Allison University will walk off ...
STU’s history of “Indigenization”
Despite the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey flags flying at the foot of the campus, St. Thomas University (STU) has a decade-long ...
Universities and corporations: a misguided merger
The corporatization of higher education is now front page news. Prolonged strikes at York University and the University of Toronto ...
Universities and the austerity agenda [audio]
Image from the Unite Against Austerity campaign. Robin Vose is the president of the Canadian Association ...
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