(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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the results are in! / sfu senate election results
Perhaps not strangely, the main search term for people landing at my website today has been ‘sfu senate election results’. To properly appease the masses, here they are. A fairly small amount of students participated – 1,376. Twice that participated in the SFSS elections. If there’s one thing that these elections show, it’s that the [...]
sorry, i can’t afford it / the sfu budget and student aid
On Thursday, March 26, the SFU Board of Governors reviewed and approved the proposed university budget. [n.b.: you can view a PDF of the budget here and you can read a quick analysis of the impacts here.] I am currently a member of the Board of Governors, elected by and from the students, and I [...]