Whatever happened to tenure?
The backbone of today’s university is the ill-paid, overworked lecturer
View ArticleSmall town universities and tenure
Another reason to prefer small universities is the access to full-time profs.
View ArticleWhat do professors make in Canada?
It may be more than you guessed. Click to see where your school stands.
View ArticleWant lower tuition? Ask your profs about $97,000 pensions.
Runaway compensation is hurting students
View ArticleA hated professor’s lesson in academic freedom
On the legacy of race researcher Philippe Rushton
View ArticleOntario’s auditor general wrong on teaching
Prof. Pettigrew: student evaluations won't help
View ArticleInstructor dismissed after student kills chicken
Alberta art college divided by controversial performance art
View ArticleDebating higher education in the L.A. Times
Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran a five-day series of debates between the Skeptic‘s Michael Shermer and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education‘s Greg Lukianoff regarding academic freedom. I...
View ArticleSchool to A+ professor: you’re fired
The University of Ottawa has fired controversial physics professor Denis Rancourt, who made national headlines late last year for refusing to grade his students and promising an A+ to everyone in his...
View ArticleLetter: “Rancourt said we had become ‘brainwashed peons’”
This letter was sent to the Chairman of the Department of Physics and the Dean of Science at the University of Ottawa by Phillip Vinten, a Master’s student at the school and a former student of Denis...
View ArticleLetter: “He didn’t teach at all”
This letter was sent to Maclean’s OnCampus by Phillip Vinten, a Master’s student at the University of Ottawa and a former student of Denis Rancourt. He says the university did the right thing by firing...
View ArticleQ & A with former professor Denis Rancourt
Notice: This interview was recently updated to include parts of our interview with Denis Rancourt that were previously omitted. Professor Denis Rancourt was recently fired by the University of Ottawa...
View ArticleLetter: Rancourt’s teaching was “relevant,”“reasonable”
As a former student of Denis’ and as a former science student, I really appreciated the teaching methods that Denis brought to his class and to the university. Challenging students on their beliefs,...
View ArticleShooting rampage in Alabama – over tenure
The latest set of campus murders involves an assistant professor of biology at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. She is accused in the deaths of three of her colleagues, with three more reported...
View ArticleProf charged in Uni shooting said to be odd
Students said they signed a petition and complained to no avail about the classroom conduct of a University of Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a...
View ArticleUManitoba threatened with censure
The University of Manitoba faces an academic boycott after the Canadian Association of University Teachers threatened to censure the school over allegations former family medicine professor, Larry...
View ArticleCarnage at UAlberta
The University of Alberta is cutting its staff roster while student enrolment is projected to remain the same. Yesterday, the university announced that so far 43 people have been laid off...
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Whatever happened to tenure?
Photograph by Andrew Tolson In 2000, 36-year-old Leslie Jermyn went to teach her first course as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto. For $4,550, she taught 100 students a two-month...
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