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Originally Posted by jamesteterenko
This is the weakest petition that I have ever seen. A petition should actually request something of the person or organization that receives it. Within the page of text, I do not see an actual request being made. As far as I can tell, the petition effectively states, "We the undersigned feel this scenario is unjust".
What do the signees want? To increase the compensation for sessional lecturers? To increase the number of tenure track positions? To reduce the number of tenure track positions and use the money saved to increase the compensation for sessional lecturers? Give Dr. Dube an annual retention bonus and leave everything else the same? Or is the complaint that there isn't enough money overall in education?
Just to admit my bias, I am on the board of directors of a College at a major Canadian university. I am not aware of the specifics at UofC, but balancing full time faculty with sessional lecturers along with the quality of education is very difficult. This is especially true when budgets do not keep pace with inflation, which is likely the case here.
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Seems pretty clear to me, and I didn't need a university education to see it:
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The SAA resolution stated, "The Students' Union oppose[s] the termination or non-renewal of faculty contracts for those who have a demonstrated record of teaching excellence."
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Maybe you need to take some refresher courses, before defending some dinosaurs (who probably don't even know how to use a computer) that just happen to have the power to manipulate the education and lives of 20,000 students.
As the article says (quite clearly), Dr. Henderson was an advocate of the students. A student's teacher. The kind every student wants to have. And of course they're the first to go when the cronies in charge get their panties in a bunch.