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University of Alberta campus. Image credit: Janusz Sliwinski/Flickr
University of Alberta faces more than half of budget's post-secondary cuts
David J. Climenhaga | In the 2021 Alberta budget, the University of Alberta's grant has been slashed by 11 per cent, or $60.1 million. Also: another tiki-torch march; former MLA Janice Sarich remembered.
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University of Alberta campus in 2013. Image: IQRemix/Flickr
Corporate lobbyist and former Conservative aide appointed to University of Alberta post
David J. Climenhaga | The university leadership likely concluded that lobbyist Elan MacDonald has the connections necessary to work with Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party government.
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Fighting racism at an Alberta university
Scott Neigh | Renae Watchman, Michael Truscello and Leah Hamilton talk about the work of the Mount Royal Anti-Racism Coalition.
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Demetrios Nicolaides explains his government's plan to overhaul Alberta's post-secondary education system in a video on June 12, 2020. Image: Demetrios Nicolaides/Screenshot of Twitter video
Nothing good is likely to come from the Alberta government's plan to 'transform' post-secondary education
David J. Climenhaga | Promises by highly ideological governments to enact ambitious change in institutions they have targeted as hotbeds of opposition should be viewed with some distrust.
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An RCMP cruiser on the UBC campus in 2014. Image: British Columbia Emergency Photography/Flickr
It's past time to take cops off campus
Jeff Shantz | Growing movements against police brutality raise concerns over the self-serving relationships between criminal justice agencies and post-secondary institutions.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks to media December 6, 2019. Image: Government of Alberta/Flickr
Alberta government attacks knowledge with cuts to post-secondary education
Duncan Cameron | In an incomprehensible attack on the foundations of an advanced society, the Kenney government has decided to slash funding to 21 post-secondary Alberta institutions.
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Canadian Federation of Students protest at Queens Park January 18 2019
Canadian Federation of Students tells Doug Ford that post-secondary education isn't just about what goes on in the classroom
Victoria Fenner | Hildah Otiena of the Ontario CFS talks about the Ontario government plans to let students opt out of fees for student activities, health plans and bus passes.
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Athabasca University campus. Photo: daryl_mitchell/Flickr
Athabasca University and its faculty approach impasse in bargaining
David J. Climenhaga | Forcing Athabasca University administrators to reach a contract their faculty can live with would serve the public interest and government's political interest. What's not to like about that?
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Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt briefs student leaders about Bill 19 at the Legislature yesterday (Photo: Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta).
Alberta NDP introduces a measure of fairness to post-secondary tuition
David J. Climenhaga | Bill 19, the Act to Improve the Affordability and Accessibility of Post-Secondary Education, is no bad thing, taking reasonable steps to protect students within provincial jurisdiction.
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Instructobots at the OPSEU Rally on Nov 2.
Father doesn’t always know best: Why faculty must vote no
Michael Jones | The Ontario college strike has been controlled by the employer in a paternalistic way, which is exactly how they’d like to run the entire college system.
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Picketers from Fanshawe College in London, Ont., at the start of the strike in support of college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians. Photo: Erin E. MacDonald/Twitter
Province-wide strike at Ontario's colleges begins second week
Meagan Gillmore | ​More than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians took to the picket lines after OPSEU and the College Employer Council failed to reach agreement
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Time-sucking academic job applications don't know enormity of what they ask
Alana Cattapan | Job-seeking academics have come to think that the elusive tenure-track position is worth any amount of sacrifice. And institutions are exploiting this desire to the hilt.