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Try refreshing your browser. Sudbury column: University faculty do much more than teach Back to video I’m a faculty member at the Workplace and Labour Studies program at Laurentian University, and on May 15, along with about 110 others, I’ll be losing my job — again. So, it occurred to me that I might be able to reply to the kind of comment that I’ve often seen in the comments section of the local media, and social media, for the past few months. Here’s the type of comment I’m referring to, that appeared on a Facebook group: “How can these employees be so naive not to realize ...

Try refreshing your browser. Sudbury column: The time for universal post-secondary education has arrived Back to video One of the best things any government can do during a downturn (or for that matter in the middle of a global pandemic) is to invest in people – in their health, their safety on the job, as well as their security and their education. Do this – and do it well – and countries have workforces that can react to crises. They also have workers and communities who can make plans for a better future. Even better, they have the infrastructure that puts people to work today and...

Article content Laurentian University’s senators will likely be asked to endorse a plan to cut jobs and programs during a secret Senate meeting on Tuesday, members of Save Our Sudbury were told during a Zoom meeting held Friday. Jen Johnson, a faculty member of the Senate, said senators have been asked to attend an in-camera meeting “on very short notice.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Tension around looming Laurentian cuts growing Back to video Johnson, an associate professor and chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, said t...

February 17, 2021 The Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Labour Studies Program are excited to welcome Maureen Kihika as an Assistant Professor. Kihika’s journey with SFU does not begin here; after completing her MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies at Brock University, she began her PhD at SFU in 2011. Initially drawn to the university’s focus on community engagement and its scholarship, Kihika has also developed an appreciation for the natural beauty of the campus and feels it is important to acknowledge the unceded land on which the university operates. “I ...