This is the first in our series of posts featuring your responses to the Principal’s Bicentennial Vision. A big thanks to all those who have copied us on their correspondence and a reminder to keep sharing your answers by cutting and pasting them into this anonymous form. Responding to the Principal’s preset questions, the colleague … Continue reading Reader Responses to the Principal’s Bicentennial Vision, Issue #1
Deane vs Deane: Will the Real Principal Please Stand Up?
In our last post, we outlined some of our concerns with Principal Deane’s Bicentennial Vision, giving him a failing grade for his analysis. But perhaps we were being too harsh? We know that in the past, the Principal has demonstrated a keen sense of critical analysis, including in an interview with University World News published … Continue reading Deane vs Deane: Will the Real Principal Please Stand Up?
Queen’s Bicentennial Vision: From Liberal Arts University to Technical School
The murky process guiding the administration’s drive to restructure Queen’s got a bit more concrete last week when Principal Deane released a discussion paper, Queen’s Bicentennial Vision, in an email to all members of the university community. Readers who attended the December Senate meeting, where the Principal faced pressure to reveal the administration’s plans, will … Continue reading Queen’s Bicentennial Vision: From Liberal Arts University to Technical School
What Happened at Faculty Board?
Members present at a three-hour FAS Faculty Board meeting on Friday, November 22, emerged from Dupuis Hall with more questions than answers about the proposed shift to a modular degree framework. You can read a blow-by-blow account of the meeting below. A brief overview of what happened is as follows: At the end of a … Continue reading What Happened at Faculty Board?
Modular Degrees and FAS Faculty Board
Associate Dean (Academic) Jenn Stephenson has been on a public relations blitz in the run up to a major vote at this Friday's Faculty of Arts and Science Faculty Board meeting. Clearly nervous about resistance, Stephenson took to the pages of the Queen’s Journal to defend the controversial modular degree framework, which will reduce the … Continue reading Modular Degrees and FAS Faculty Board
No Equity in Austerity
Queen’s’ commitments to equity are once again under the spotlight as questions arise about the impact of June’s cuts on the university’s most marginalized members. When asked by QCAA for the equity profile of the 16 people laid off last month, Dean Barbara Crow provided the following statement: Queen’s does not discuss decisions regarding staff … Continue reading No Equity in Austerity
Queen's Coalition Against Austerity 