Memorial University cuts continue – without collegial governance, and without transparency
To end the 2023 faculty strike, Memorial University promised a committee and a report on collegial governance, but its administration ended the process
State of the University
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We have given you a university — if you can keep it
The defunding of Memorial is not a story of fiscal misfortune or demographic bad luck. It is one of a deliberate, decades-long ideological project whose purpose is the transformation of public universities from civic institutions into market instruments.
Slowly killing research at Memorial University
A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of knowledge.
Hope, grief, and value: a reflection on the Humanities
‘I saw the magic that happened in our seminars as the seed of something that could only benefit society by spreading.’
Memorial University students can’t afford silence
Why we’re taking action on Oct. 1
From Black Excellence to Black Flourishing at Memorial University
Excellence on its own will never keep us safe
Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation
Decades of austerity have left Memorial’s buildings crumbling and its people sick, but beneath the mould and rats is a deeper story of land and labour — and a chance to transform the university from a site of neglect into a democratic, life-giving institution
Broken promises and lost faith
Student life at Memorial has been deeply impacted by the university’s failed commitments to peace, justice and equity
Doing the heart work: My time with Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement
Love is something we don’t talk about much in university spaces, but for those I got to know during my time at OPE, love is the driving force behind their professional trajectory
It’s time for a reckoning on public university education in our province
Successive Liberal governments have presided over the destruction of Memorial University
We have given you a university — if you can keep it
The defunding of Memorial is not a story of fiscal misfortune or demographic bad luck. It is one of a deliberate, decades-long ideological project whose purpose is the transformation of public universities from civic institutions into market instruments.
Slowly killing research at Memorial University
A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of knowledge.
Hope, grief, and value: a reflection on the Humanities
‘I saw the magic that happened in our seminars as the seed of something that could only benefit society by spreading.’
Memorial University students can’t afford silence
Why we’re taking action on Oct. 1
From Black Excellence to Black Flourishing at Memorial University
Excellence on its own will never keep us safe
Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation
Decades of austerity have left Memorial’s buildings crumbling and its people sick, but beneath the mould and rats is a deeper story of land and labour — and a chance to transform the university from a site of neglect into a democratic, life-giving institution
Broken promises and lost faith
Student life at Memorial has been deeply impacted by the university’s failed commitments to peace, justice and equity
Doing the heart work: My time with Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement
Love is something we don’t talk about much in university spaces, but for those I got to know during my time at OPE, love is the driving force behind their professional trajectory
It’s time for a reckoning on public university education in our province
Successive Liberal governments have presided over the destruction of Memorial University