Jennifer Chan :: Out of Asia: Topologies of #racism in Canada (#UBC David Lam...
Out of Asia: Topologies of Racism in Canada Jennifer Chan ABSTRACT: This case study recounts my harrowing experience through a great Canadian equity swindle—involving two internal university equity...
View Article#UBC Committee of Deans making decisions, covering tracks #ubcnews #ubc100...
Since the announcement of University of British Columbia President Arvind Gupta’s resignation on 7 August 2015 and subsequent disclosure and leak of records on 25 January 2016 via Freedom of...
View ArticleEve Seguin: Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors #ubcnews...
To discipline and punish a colleague via academic mobbing, professionals— yes, professionals, including managers— conspire and solicit. This is one insight gathered from Eve Seguin’s astute and timely...
View ArticleNew issue of Workplace: Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor...
Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor Special Issue of Workplace Edited by Karen Lynn Gregory & Joss Winn Articles in Workplace have repeatedly called for increased collective...
View Article#UBC100 at a glance: Vague memories of life at #ubc #ubcnews #bced #highered
Dear UBC diary, Year 100: Does anyone at the University of British Columbia remember last year, when on the day of the institution’s 100th birthday party Arvind resigned? If memory serves me right,...
View ArticleDignity at work and #mismanagement at #UBC #ubcnews #bced #ubysseynews
There have been questions about what we mean by “mismanagement” at the University of British Columbia? What is meant by claims that at key moments in the past two years, there was evident mismanagement...
View ArticleIs #UBC Okanagan Education merging with #UBCeduc Education? #ubcnews...
E. Wayne Ross provided this gem of information and insight to UBC’s “first” Faculty of Education: In the recent past, Dean Frank has spoken of the possibility of the UBC Okanagan Faculty of Education...
View ArticlePeter Wylie: Case study of #UBC, Okanagan campus #ubconews #ubcnews #ubceduc...
Peter Wylie Associate Professor, Economics University of British Columbia A New University in an Underrepresented Region: A Case Study of University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada Paper...
View Article#UBC #shameless in taking shopping bag donations #ubcnews #bced #bcpoli
Why is the University of British Columbia now taking bag donations from Whole Foods supermarket, effectively robbing from the poor to give to the rich? Yes, UBC, which boasts a $2b annual budget has...
View ArticleReally #UBC? Taking $7,230 in grocery bag donations? #ubcnews #bced #bcpoli
It has become increasingly difficult to entertain appeals that the University of British Columbia is underfunded by the Ministry. Surely, other postsecondary institutions in BC are chronically...
View Article#UBC time to lay down the mace in graduation and governance #ubcnews #ubc...
*Apologies to the medievalists. Repeated below is our semi-annual appeal to UBC managers to Lay Down the Mace: As we count down to May graduation, can we please remove the mace from convocation and...
View ArticleMeum est or tuum est #UBC? Which is it? #ubcnews #bced #highered
The pomp of graduation, a time of calm reflection as students’ rite of passage is conferred under the mesmerizing pronouncements of the convocation speaker. And at UBC, a time to hear administrators...
View Article#UBC time to lay down the mace in graduation and governance #ubcnews #bced...
*Apologies to the medievalists again. Customized below is our semi-annual appeal to UBC managers to Lay Down the Mace: As we count down to and roll through graduation, can we please remove the mace...
View Article@UBC time to lay down the mace in graduation and governance #ubcnews #ubc...
*Apologies to the medievalists once again. Customized below is our semi-annual appeal to UBC managers to Lay Down the Mace: As we count down to and roll through graduation, can we please remove the...
View ArticlePeter Wylie on academic mobbing at the University of British Columbia #ubc...
The account and evidence of how, when, where, and why Professor Wylie (Peter) was mobbed by UBC administrators are disturbing. It’s a travesty that he had to endure this mobbing. Faculty are...
View Article150 signatories call #UBC search committee for Dean of Education to account
In a show of solidarity today, 150 signatories submitted a petition to University of British Columbia President Ono to account for a decision to disregard Dr. Samson Nashon‘s application for Dean of...
View Article#UBC Dean Search shut down and Advisory Committee dissolved
Responding to a Petition and attached Letter (below) questioning the decision to exclude an extremely competitive African Canadian applicant from the shortlist in the search for a new Dean of Education...
View ArticleHigher Racism: The Case of the University of British Columbia
Higher Racism: The Case of the University of British Columbia— On the Wrong Side of History but Right Side of Optics Stephen Petrina & E. Wayne Ross Here’s a summary of the article: UBC faculty,...
View Article#UBC Faculty of Education, Dean Shortlist Candidate Forums
*Archiving, as this Search has been deleted from the UBC Faculty of Education’s announcements, deleted from the UBC Provost’s announcements, and in effect deleted from the historical record– as if it...
View ArticleFACULTY MEMBERS AT SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY SUSPENDED FOR SUPPORTING STUDENT...
Four faculty members at South Asian University (New Delhi, India) have been suspended pending investigation for asking the university not to call police inside the campus while student protests were...
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