It’s been said repeatedly. In an era littered with professorial cancellations, campus disinvitations and institutional censorship, the truth is now objective and undeniable.
I think there are several very different issues being conflated in your essay above. 1) It seems you haven't been turned down for a job or disciplined for any specific undertakings you've accomplished as a professor in your dept. This is the kind of thing that faces people who are considered DEI (whether because of gender or ethnic identity) daily, weekly, monthly. 2) Specialization is now de rigueur in the contemporary university and it is becoming less and less possible for academics in one field to comment intelligibly and with sufficient scope and understanding about topics in another very different field. I would need to read the articles you've published in the Nat Post and elsewhere to see what the topics are about, in order to get a feel for whether you've really been 'sidelined' or 'ignored' by superiors; I would think non-peer-reviewed media articles generally stand outside any necessary recognition from an academic's dept. If they are on topics decidedly non-germane to what you study and publish research articles and books about, then even more so; 3) If some are op-eds, and they've been published, then you certainly haven't had any freedom of expression rights trampled or even bumped into: you got your speech published in the Nat. Post. If someone you work with disagrees with something you've said in them, and doesn't think them worthy of special mention, that's entirely their prerogative. That said, I think they ought to count as a part of community service work as they are bringing more readers and potential responses to a civic discussion and debate about whatever topics are under consideration. I don't see why your course causes you that much angst, since it sounds as though it survived the chopping block, and this is common at many institutions nowadays: usually due to enrolment numbers or faculty spread problems, and the need for core and other courses to be fulfilled first- I think it highly unlikely that this was personally motivated, either. Based on your bio and the positions you've held and the research you've conducted, I don't see the basis for the overall complaints. All outward appearances indicate that you are well-respected in general terms (even if not by everyone at your own university, most profs today have their peers spread globally), successful by any measure- financial, publication-wise, and as a teacher. Exercising good judgment might suggest the expression of gratitude for all the opportunities you've had and contributions you've made, and the opportunity to do so in a world-class city and country, rather than what sounds like petty griping over minor (and questionable) slights.
Okay, I've seen the most recent one- a political op-ed in December praising the twice-impeached, convicted-criminal president who had his presidency purchased by a tech-bro, and his sniveling minion north of the border, Pierre Poilievre. So my instincts were correct, and my response stands (in fact, had I seen the article first, I would not have given the benefit of the doubt in so many places.
So my question in reply to the article's title: "Or what???" What must Canadian universities do because there will be an election likely in 2025? And what if someone else, like Mark Carney, wins the election? Universities don't change their policies and their positions because there's been a transfer of power in a democratic country.
I dunno $3.5 seems about a satisfactory amount to pay DIE (diversity, inclusion and equity) czars at your school. I bet you just "love me" and my typo corrections. It was 3.5M at the National Post. That's like almost 3.5 million more than such bureaucrats are worth.
So now you know what really happened with both Socrates and Galileo. It had nothing to do with the Athenian democracy, in Socrates' case, nor The Church in Galileo's case. It is always a "case" of incompetent, jealous, vicious, parasitic, bureaucratic "mental midgets" --- an occupational hazard among/to scholarly sorts of folks.
Incidentally, "swingeing" is not a familiar word to most Canadians or Americans! Vive la Différence.
[Note: which I estimate to run to in excess of $3.5 to cover salaries and benefits for the administrative team, is eyewatering. ... I would not wish to sow the seeds of malcontent but bearing in mind the swingeing budgetary cuts... ]
Unless you are speaking "Cockney", in which case the truth is poetically obscure --- so that them respectable folks don't catch on. Bob's your Uncle! (I don't even know what that means!!! But I really like saying it! 😜😂🤣😁)
Carney won’t win. His track record is appalling.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/mark-carney-is-not-fit-to-be-canadian-pm/
I think there are several very different issues being conflated in your essay above. 1) It seems you haven't been turned down for a job or disciplined for any specific undertakings you've accomplished as a professor in your dept. This is the kind of thing that faces people who are considered DEI (whether because of gender or ethnic identity) daily, weekly, monthly. 2) Specialization is now de rigueur in the contemporary university and it is becoming less and less possible for academics in one field to comment intelligibly and with sufficient scope and understanding about topics in another very different field. I would need to read the articles you've published in the Nat Post and elsewhere to see what the topics are about, in order to get a feel for whether you've really been 'sidelined' or 'ignored' by superiors; I would think non-peer-reviewed media articles generally stand outside any necessary recognition from an academic's dept. If they are on topics decidedly non-germane to what you study and publish research articles and books about, then even more so; 3) If some are op-eds, and they've been published, then you certainly haven't had any freedom of expression rights trampled or even bumped into: you got your speech published in the Nat. Post. If someone you work with disagrees with something you've said in them, and doesn't think them worthy of special mention, that's entirely their prerogative. That said, I think they ought to count as a part of community service work as they are bringing more readers and potential responses to a civic discussion and debate about whatever topics are under consideration. I don't see why your course causes you that much angst, since it sounds as though it survived the chopping block, and this is common at many institutions nowadays: usually due to enrolment numbers or faculty spread problems, and the need for core and other courses to be fulfilled first- I think it highly unlikely that this was personally motivated, either. Based on your bio and the positions you've held and the research you've conducted, I don't see the basis for the overall complaints. All outward appearances indicate that you are well-respected in general terms (even if not by everyone at your own university, most profs today have their peers spread globally), successful by any measure- financial, publication-wise, and as a teacher. Exercising good judgment might suggest the expression of gratitude for all the opportunities you've had and contributions you've made, and the opportunity to do so in a world-class city and country, rather than what sounds like petty griping over minor (and questionable) slights.
Okay, I've seen the most recent one- a political op-ed in December praising the twice-impeached, convicted-criminal president who had his presidency purchased by a tech-bro, and his sniveling minion north of the border, Pierre Poilievre. So my instincts were correct, and my response stands (in fact, had I seen the article first, I would not have given the benefit of the doubt in so many places.
So my question in reply to the article's title: "Or what???" What must Canadian universities do because there will be an election likely in 2025? And what if someone else, like Mark Carney, wins the election? Universities don't change their policies and their positions because there's been a transfer of power in a democratic country.
I dunno $3.5 seems about a satisfactory amount to pay DIE (diversity, inclusion and equity) czars at your school. I bet you just "love me" and my typo corrections. It was 3.5M at the National Post. That's like almost 3.5 million more than such bureaucrats are worth.
So now you know what really happened with both Socrates and Galileo. It had nothing to do with the Athenian democracy, in Socrates' case, nor The Church in Galileo's case. It is always a "case" of incompetent, jealous, vicious, parasitic, bureaucratic "mental midgets" --- an occupational hazard among/to scholarly sorts of folks.
Incidentally, "swingeing" is not a familiar word to most Canadians or Americans! Vive la Différence.
[Note: which I estimate to run to in excess of $3.5 to cover salaries and benefits for the administrative team, is eyewatering. ... I would not wish to sow the seeds of malcontent but bearing in mind the swingeing budgetary cuts... ]
Fixed that error. I wish they only cost $3.50 but the truth hurts.
Unless you are speaking "Cockney", in which case the truth is poetically obscure --- so that them respectable folks don't catch on. Bob's your Uncle! (I don't even know what that means!!! But I really like saying it! 😜😂🤣😁)