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#UBC @AllardLaw, anybody home? #ethics #ubcnews @joelbakan #lawstudents #bced
UBC Allard School of Law? Legal ethics at UBC? Where are you at this moment when we know full well at the University of British Columbia that (nearly all?) secret agreements are dangerous to shared...
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More bucks than brains: James Ramey and the ruination of the University of...
[Cross-posted from Where the Blog has No Name] University of Louisville president James Ramsey posed for photo in sombrero, poncho at the his 2015 Halloween party In the late 1990s, Kentucky’s...
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#UBC admin exuberance to blame for Kinesiology controversy over $$ and...
On 27 October, UBC Insiders broke the story of the collusion between the UBC School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education, and the School’s Undergraduate Society (KUS). In March 2015, the students held...
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#UBC lack of policy on sexual assault #ubysseynews #ubcnews #ubc100 #bced
Emma Partridge, Ubyssey, November 20, 2015–A much anticipated documentary by the fifth estate has made some startling discoveries that ultimately cast an unflattering spotlight on how UBC handles...
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@ubcnews time to apologize to Gupta & #UBC members #ubc100 #ubcclean #ubcnews...
The management and legitimacy crisis at the University of British Columbia is growing worse. Putting out fires from crisis to crisis, the University’s public relations has been a disaster from day one....
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#UBCclean protest disrupts #UBC Board mtg #ubcnews #ubc100 #ubysseynews
UBC faculty, staff, students, and citizens turned out in mass to protest the Board of Governors’ unaccountability and damaging lack of transparency. The message being enough is enough. We’re fed up...
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#UBC FA re-issues call for external review of Governance #ubc100 #ubcnews...
With UBC’s crisis of administration and legitimacy growing worse, the Faculty Association has re-issued its call for an external review of the Board of Governors and its operations. Clearly, there are...
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#OUTweek rainbow flag burned at #UBC suspect hate speech #pride #ubysseynews...
Moira Warburton, The Ubyssey, February 9, 2016– A rainbow flag, raised on the pole outside the old SUB for the Pride Collective at UBC’s OUTweek this week, was discovered to have been burnt down...
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#UBC deans in hot-seat for mere assertion of excellence #ubcclean #ubc100...
In an era not too long ago, deans were able to assert their authority on most matters of governance, finance, management, and planning. Now, with credibility and legitimacy eroding, with shadow systems...
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#UBC faculty vote no confidence in Board of Governors #ubcnews #ubc100 #bced...
Faculty members at the University of British Columbia overwhelmingly approved a motion of no confidence in the Board of Governors. This is unprecedented at the University and demonstrates the...
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Patronage at #UBC and the dangers of gated management #ubc100 #ubcnews #bced...
If there is anything learned at the University of British Columbia since the announcement of President Gupta’s resignation on 7 August 2015, it is that patronage is the institution’s greatest threat to...
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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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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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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 #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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#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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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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