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Category Archives: Board of Governors
Houston, we have a problem … with the UBC governance
The relevance of this blog is being tested earlier than we thought. Are you all wondering why the results of the elections for the 2 faculty representatives on the UBC Board of Governors haven’t been announced, even 3 weeks after … Continue reading
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Tips (from Palm Springs) on University leadership and governance
“How many faculty members does it take to change a light bulb?” is a joke that would have gone over well at the senior university administrators meeting held yesterday in … Palm Springs, California. It gets even better in this … Continue reading
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Let’s not make a habit out of this!
The UBC faculty and the UBC Board of Governors have just ratified their collective agreement for 2010-2011. That’s six months after the previous contract had expired on June 30, 2010. I wasn’t the only one surprised by this turn of … Continue reading
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Upcoming “Pieces of Mind”
Here are some of the issues I will be posting on in the next few weeks. Please chip in if you will. More on how you can help us inform the academic community, follows at the bottom of the post.
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Empowering knowledge and informed consent
Grant selection seasons bring forward dozens of individual complaints from disappointed applicants in every province in Canada, yet the task of looking at the global picture and at the real causes for these often regrettable situations, is often taken up … Continue reading
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Thank you! But what next?
I am deeply honored by the news that the faculty at UBC have re-elected me to represent them on the Board of Governors for another 3-year term. I pledge again to continue my engagement with the pertinent issues, to support … Continue reading
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To the Board of Governors they bring maturity, wisdom, and gravitas
… And to me, they bring comfort and hope in our future as a society and as a country. Sean Heisler, Ben Glassco, and Azim Wazeer are currently the students’ elected representatives on UBC’s Board of Governors. Three remarkable young … Continue reading
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How come we never talk enough about death?
I attended yesterday a memorial service for Virginia Greene (1944-2010). I didn’t know her well. I had met her on the UBC Board of Governors that she joined about a year ago. She was already frail and suffering the effect … Continue reading
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Why this blog?
I have been scratching my head for a while as to what it means to represent the faculty on the Board of Governors. How can I know the issues that my colleagues care about, and where they stand on them? … Continue reading
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Do you want to be a governor? Part II
I blogged about my own experience on UBC’s Board of Governors, and others’ but I did not mention the biggest surprise of all. It was supposed to be a four Board meetings per year affair. The reality was different, and … Continue reading
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“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for …
… trying to change the system from within.” Leonard Cohen. After blogging about my own experience on UBC’s Board of Governors, I was reminded that, back in 2004, a colleague of ours, Dennis Danielson (English Department) had also written in … Continue reading
UBC Land Use Plan – Part I
The background: UBC essentially “controls” one of the most valuable pieces of land in North America. The challenge is to try to unlock the multi-billion dollars value of that land in order to support student, faculty and staff housing, … Continue reading
Do you want to be a governor?
I am completing a 3-year term as a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. Here are a few selected personal notes from my experience on that Board. My 33 years of academic service at UBC were surely helpful in … Continue reading
Running for a second term on the BoG? Yes I should!
I am finishing my 3-year term representing the faculty on the UBC Board of Governors. The elections of new faculty representatives will start on November 25th. The other faculty rep., Andrew Irvine (from Philosophy) is finishing his second term and … Continue reading
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No Stephen O, the university can never live off its land
Stephen Owen, UBC’s vice-president, external, legal and community relations, is a man of high integrity, credibility, and respect, with whom I agree on most issues. I however, happen to fundamentally disagree with some of his premises in his latest article … Continue reading
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What is Bill 20?
On June 24th, the Government of B.C. passed a new legislation that will have a major impact on UBC’s Vancouver campus. Bill 20 transfers the responsibility for approving land use plans for the bulk of UBC’s Vancouver campus lands from … Continue reading
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Open letter to Chancellor MacEachern
Dear Chancellor MacEachern There are many ways in which the democratic rights of the UBC Faculty have been denied during the election of their representatives to the Presidential Search Committee:…Asking for nominations at five days’ notice (week-end included), closing the … Continue reading
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Piece of Mind 