Category: University

Mar/03
2011
CUPE 4207 represents almost 900 part-time instructors, teaching assistants, lab demonstrators, markers/graders, course coordinators, and full-time ESL coordinators at my university, Brock University. They have been attempting to negotiate with the univer… more »
Sep/29
2010
I have been saying for some time now that higher education will be the next economic bubble. Soon after the announcement that the Feds would be cracking down on some of the more unethical practices in the for-profit education sector come lawsuits against… more »
Jun/15
2010
I predict that this will be the next thing to explode. If I had real money rather than my paltry sum of Canadaland Fun Bucks, I would be investing it in put options on education-sector securities and naked credit default swaps on education-sector bonds.… more »
Jun/03
2010

At the WCSA

I'm in a hotel room in (on?) Long Island, waiting to go to the Working Class Studies Association conference this afternoon, where I will give a speech, which might turn out well. Maybe. The speaker on my panel before me is an American talking about the B… more »
Apr/18
2010
To anybody studying or who has studied at Brock, have you noticed how the original buildings look disturbingly like Soviet construction projects? Giant, concrete and monolithic. more »