The University of Windsor student pub is shutting down [http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=b3b50830-9fee-40bb-814e-80436a6f4154] after losing it’s operating subsidy. This is a smart move. The modern campus is always short of good student space and funding for real student services. Hopefully, the USWA turns…
I’m tempted to think the release of all these presidential contracts may actually work to increase university president’s compensation levels, especially in the case of retirement payouts. Back in April 2005, Pauline Tam and Sarah Schmidt of The Ottawa Citizen wrote an extensive article on university presidential payouts.…
Reading this article [http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080704139352/local/news/contracts-reveal-cost-to-unbc-for-presidents.html] in the Prince George Citizenoutlining the contract of the UNBC president and some of the reasons for the departure of the previous UNBC president, I was struck by this sentence: “The Citizen has also learned UNBC agreed to…
The North American Solar Car [http://americansolarchallenge.org/index.html] race begins today in Texas. There are 6 Canadian teams in the field of 24 competing to win the race which ends on July 23 in Calgary. I’m not sure which team I should be cheering for. There’s…
The Daily Gleaner reports [http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/345890] that STU professors will have being teaching fewer classes and getting paid more next academic year following an arbitrator’s binding ruling. The faculty association and university administration agreed to arbitration after a month long strike/lock-out nearly cancelled…
A few weeks ago, the McMaster Students Union put a news release supporting the construction of a light-rail line between the university and Stoney Creek. The release has caused a stir in Hamilton for many reasons. Most importantly, to me at least, is this reflects a sea change in position…
Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of John McCain and have been for a long time. I have a McCain 2000 lawnsign which I consider to be the centrepiece of my political memorabilia collection. I was not going to blog on the presidential race because of this bias. I’m…
In New Zealand, the largest national student lobbying organization doesn’t particularly like [http://www.salient.org.nz/blog/nzusa-update-3-salient-barred-vuwsa-enraged-responsible-government-threatened] opening it’s meetings to the media. There excuses sound oddly familiar to me too! ‘We need safe space’ and/or ‘not enough time to think about it’. Funny how…