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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...

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#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...

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Eve 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...

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New 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...

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#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,...

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Dignity 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...

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Is #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...

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Peter 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...

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#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...

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Really #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...

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#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...

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Meum 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...

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#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...

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@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...

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Peter 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...

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150 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...

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#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...

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Higher 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,...

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#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...

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FACULTY 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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