Election Day in Ontario

Academic Aunties

27 Feb 2025 — 1 min read

If you live in Ontario, remember to go vote today! On that note, and in light of the attacks on universities that we've been document, read this great article on how 7 years of Doug Ford has resulted in a serious crisis.

Nous: Academic Management Consultant Grifters?

Whether it is disastrous restructuring at the University of Alberta, massive layoffs and program closures at Laurentian, or suspension of academic admissions to programs like Indigenous Studies and gender and women's studies at York, there seems to be a common thread: academic institutions are collectively spending millions of

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Fighting for our university

What's happening at York where senior administrators decided to suspend admissions into 19 undergraduate programs is galling: Taking the advice of a consultancy firm - Nous - which they paid millions of dollars to give advice on how to streamline university processes, senior administrators bypassed governance procedures and

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Higher education is at risk. We are in a time of serious attacks on academic freedom, crackdowns on those who dare to criticize the neoliberal university, and even the wholesale elimination of programs that have social justice at their core. Over the past three years, these are issues that we

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Nous: Academic Management Consultant Grifters?

Fighting for our university

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