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		<title>Just what I&#8217;ve been thinking lately &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/just-what-ive-been-thinking-lately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emmaluxemburg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of interest: a recent piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education: &#8220;Can Consultants Save Universities?&#8221; by Stan Katz (Nov. 16/09) in response to Tamar Lewin&#8217;s story in the New York Times (&#8220;Universities Turn to Consultants to Trim Budgets,&#8221; Nov. 14/09). Fav quote? Here:
A Bain [consultancy firm] partner is quoted by Lewin as justifying the hiring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6358&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South of the border&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/south-of-the-border/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lchalmers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the American Association of University Professors has launched an awareness and action campaign in response to concerns that recent court decisions do not bode well for full academic freedom at public colleges and universities in the USA (more here).   They emphasize the need to fortify academic freedom with strong policy language (the breakfast of academic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6353&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We need a plan for multi-year university funding</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/we-need-a-plan-for-multi-year-university-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s Daily Gleaner:
It was encouraging to read The Gleaner&#8217;s Oct. 31 editorial calling attention to New Brunswick&#8217;s dismal record of funding the operational needs of the University of New Brunswick and other public universities.
The decline in provincial investment began during former Premier Frank McKenna&#8217;s time and, despite a pause under Bernard Lord, has never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6350&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the academic labour front:</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/on-the-academic-labour-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a brief update on labour situations elsewhere:

As you may recall, Trent took a strike vote and then settled a few days thereafter.
Librarians and archivists at Western gave actual strike notice and then settled last week a couple of days before the scheduled strike.
Also last week the Nipissing faculty association voted by nearly 96% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6347&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Around and about</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/around-and-about-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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TONIGHT: &#8220;The Debate: U of Have, U of Have Not,&#8221; The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO (Oct. 27/09, 8pm EST): &#8220;Should Canada have a tiered university system with some institutions concentrating on scientific research and graduate studies and others concentrating on undergraduate studies? Or, is that elitist? And, what&#8217;s wrong with elitism anyway? Five university [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6340&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Around the interwebs</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/around-the-interwebs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academic Matters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Academic Matters (Oct/Nov./09): Debating Tenure.


&#8220;Online Education&#8217;s Great Unknowns,&#8221; Inside Higher Ed (Oct. 22/09): just as I suspected: almost half of responding institutions with online programs don&#8217;t even know whether or not they are profitable. But why let something like that stop you?


&#8220;Students release Canada’s Education Action Plan,&#8221; Canadian Federation of Students (Oct. 19/09) (PDF).
&#8220;Water fountains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6338&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day:</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s T-J:
[University of New Brunswick political scientist Don Desserud] said the Liberals frequently start off with strong positions on issues and retreat to something that makes more sense.
&#8220;It is almost as if it is their brand,&#8221; said Desserud.
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		<title>Tell it, brother!</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/tell-it-brother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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		<title>STAND UP: TAKE ACTION AGAINST POVERTY</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/stand-up-take-action-against-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Political Science Association and WUSC on the UNB Saint John campus, along with other students, faculty and staff, will be attending this event
as a group.  Please consider joining us on your lunch break this Friday to take a stand against poverty.  We will all meet at the Grand Hall on
Charlotte Street at 11:50 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com&blog=1139300&post=6328&subd=livingininterestingtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s updates</title>
		<link>http://livingininterestingtimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/todays-updates-112/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Jones</dc:creator>
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