(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org – see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board’s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow. Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]
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envision education / get involved with the university community
“envision education” A community-led visioning workshop – creating a new vision for our university What is this event? “envision education” is a community-led visioning workshop that brings together members of the university community to develop a plan for our university. Community resistance to cutbacks, budget reductions, layoffs, and program elimination is met with two general [...]
guelph action / activism elsewhere
So, a bit of a break from my roughly 20k-words worth of papers is due, in my estimation. I’ve come across some evidence of another university going through similar budgetary difficulties as SFU has recently — at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. Apparently, as part of a budgetary review sparked by a “budgetary crisis,” [...]