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The student view2 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 1 week ago: Jay Rawding, UNBSJ student and recipient of the Sir Howard Douglas Medal (200 for scholastic achiev … more »

Tags: Community, Liberals

New terminology, same old rhetoric in TJ Editorial2 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 1 week ago: The editors at the TJ have risen from their collective stupor and delivered a one-two punch to the u … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, Action-plan, Community, corporatization, How universities work, Presidents and Principals

And lastly... Doherty finally finds his voice5 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 1 week ago: Given how Kelly Lamrock is “handling” the EFI issue, it might be that silence is the bes … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, Action-plan, governance, How universities work, Presidents and Principals, Quotable Quotes, Ed Doherty, UofT

The Ying and the Yang in T-J "Letters to the Editor"1 comment

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: Two interesting takes on the PSE debate today. On the one hand, a letter by Greg Cook takes the edi … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, How universities work, media

A "dramatic" opinion expressed on universities by the editors at the TJ3 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: Well, in less than 400 words the editorial board at the TJ thinks it has summed up and shown the cas … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, Action-plan, governance, How universities work

Post-Secondary Education back on the front page2 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: How do the faculty at UNB (F & SJ) feel about the Liberals “Action Plan” for PSE?  … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, Action-plan, corporatization, Documents, governance, How universities work, Liberals, Presidents and Principals, PSE Commission

An Eloquent Reponse to the "Action Plan" from STU faculty member1 comment

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: who knows what he’s talking about since he has first-hand knowledge of how an over-bureaucrati … more »

Tags: PSE Commission, corporatization, Elsewhere, Academic Freedom, Presidents and Principals, Liberals, How universities work, Action-plan

Monte Solberg slams the provincial Liberals

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: on their claims that the federal government is short-changing the province, er I’m sure the Li … more »

Tags: Letters, Liberals, Conservatives

AUNBT assesses the Liberal "Action Plan"

Debra Lindsay wrote 2 weeks ago: UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY ON THE LINE AUNBT’s Response to the “Action Plan to Transform Post-S … more »

Tags: Academic Freedom, Action-plan, corporatization, Documents, governance, How universities work, Liberals, Presidents and Principals, PSE Commission

Ideological differences characterize new phase of PSE debate

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 weeks ago: Robert MacLeod, President of the PC Party of NB, voices his concern about the Liberals’ plans … more »

Tags: corporatization, governance, Liberals, How universities work, Conservatives, Telegraph Journal, Robert MacLeod

PSE funding: where does it come from?

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 weeks ago: As pointed out by Greg Cook (T-J 4 July 2008), the Liberal spin-doctors are hard at work putting th … more »

Tags: Elsewhere, Demographics, Liberals, Resources

Clarification needed on what programs will be offered in the new "autonomous" community colleges1 comment

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 weeks ago: Is it my imagination, or was the debate taking place over the past year regarding the future of NBCC … more »

Tags: Community, corporatization, Liberals

And Matt McCann strikes again...

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 weeks ago: There is an enlightening piece in the Daily Gleaner about how the Liberal action plan will undermine … more »

Tags: corporatization, Unions, Academic Freedom, Presidents and Principals, governance, Liberals, How universities work

The dangers that lurk in privatizing post-secondary education

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 weeks ago: Here’s to the T-J. An informative piece on the perils of private post-secondary education in … more »

Tags: corporatization, Presidents and Principals, How universities work, Online Education, Telegraph Journal

A double header in the T-J today

Debra Lindsay wrote 1 month ago: I think all the bases have been covered: Cook offers a critique of the idea that universities should … more »

Tags: Community, Letters, Liberal Arts, Liberals, Telegraph Journal, Daily Gleaner

Well at least we're not alone.1 comment

Miriam Jones wrote 2 months ago: A thoughtful blog post by Bert Olivier, professor of philosophy at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Unive … more »

Tags: Community, corporatization, Elsewhere, Academic Freedom, Liberal Arts, Bert Olivier

Will we be next?3 comments

Debra Lindsay wrote 3 months ago: As reported in the Times Higher Education Supplement (Jan 24/08), the plans introduced two years ago … more »

Tags: corporatization, Polytechnics, Unions, UNBSJ, governance, Michael Shattock, Warwick

Update

Miriam Jones wrote 3 months ago: Posting, as some may have noticed, has been lighter around here than usual, because the main contrib … more »

Tags: Elsewhere, This Blog, Liberals, FSL, Efi

Nova Scotia

Miriam Jones wrote 4 months ago: is being urged by NSCC to consider implementing a policy of free tuition. If they did so, they would … more »

Tags: Elsewhere, Tuition, Education funding


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