Concordia University Faculty Association
Association des Professeur-e-s de l'Université Concordia
Educating for a good society
Éduquant pour une bonne sociétécufa.net Tiohtià:ke - Montreal, CanadaJoined September 2023
Our Fair Employment Week campaign might have ended, but the fight to secure ongoing, stable employment for contract academic staff is far from over.
These stories our members shared with us last week about working on contract speak to how we must address precarity at #UAlberta.
Quebec French-language universities states that Quebec’s new tuition structure will endanger anglophone universities & send a harmful message to students from elsewhere; while doing little to help francophone universities:
montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/fr…
Montreal university students planning one-day strike to protest Quebec tuition hike plan. Click on the image below to read more ↓ montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-unive…
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but…
“McGill thrives in the context of Quebec. The more open our institutions are, the stronger our democracies are. Why you would want to take something that is working & demean it for petty reasons is bewildering to me.”
Gopnik baffled by Quebec tuition plan montrealgazette.com/opinion/column…
“People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.”
— A. Einstein (1879-1955)
ICYMI: I spoke with several Montrealers — and one Ottawa parent whose daughter had considered studying here — about their frustration, disappointment and anger over the #Quebec government’s decision.
Tuition fee hike and CAQ rhetoric 'a slap in the face' cultmtl.com/2023/10/quebec…
« Les nouvelles mesures n’ajoutent pas de $ à l’enveloppe attribuée au réseau universitaire québécois. Elles ne font que redistribuer les $ actuelles, avec des retombées peut-être marginales. » Contente de voir les universités francophones s’exprimer! 👏👏 lapresse.ca/dialogue/opini…
“At a time of growing international hostility towards refugees, Canadian scholars must remain mindful of our obligations to support our colleagues in the defence of democracy, academic freedom and human rights.”
Read the full President’s Message: caut.ca/bulletin/2023/…
Closing out the #CASConf2023 with one last roundtable discussion - Emerging Issues for Contract Academic Staff
"A growing sense of solidarity for contract academic staff issues."
Poland’s ‘watershed’ election brings hope for academics
After eight years under an increasingly hostile Law and Justice government, researchers are hoping for an about-turn on academic freedom and critical studies, writes @benwuptonbit.ly/3Q7Ktxh
“I would say to minister Pascale Déry, who’s minister of higher education in Qc, that, as the minister, her mandate is to protect these institutions & the students who put their trust in them.” Qc university student unions to fight province's tuition hike montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-univers…
La hausse des frais de scolarité sera un «coup dur» pour Montréal, croit Valérie Plante | La mairesse estime qu’il est possible de protéger la langue française sans devoir se priver des étudiants étrangers. bit.ly/401mELY#polqc
La Presse: “It’s Open Season on Anglo Students”
Le Devoir: “Out-of-province tuition price hikes will make us intellectually poorer.”
The Quebec government’s shortsighted plan to kneecap Anglo universities is causing tons of strife - inside the government, within business…
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