What is a University Now?
It’s a commonplace, but an important one, that what the university is is always contested and complicated, and what any university is in any particular time and place is a …
David Tough
Letter to the editor
Dear Arthur, I won’t ask you to print the word but Brad White’s explanation of what went wrong with university finances in the 1980s and ‘90s is full of a …
Welfare state conference to honour retiring professor
An interdisciplinary conference on the history of the welfare state this weekend will celebrate the career of Canadian Studies professor James Struthers. The Future History of the Welfare State will …
Arthur: Come on board!
Arthur’s Board of Directors will be electing new members at our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, November 13. If you’re interested in seeing that happen or taking part, you are …
Amateur Hours: Five Micro-Memoirs of Peter Robinson College 1991-2003
The author came to Peter Robinson College straight out of high school, played music and got bad marks, was kicked out, then re-enrolled. After graduating in the mid-90s, he spent …
CUPE: Giving Workers a Presence in Campus Politics
Until recently, one of the best kept secrets of the university world was that the people who do most of the teaching are actually not professors in the strict sense, …
We The University: A Trent Declaration Of Interdependence
I hereby declare, on behalf of all of us, that the university isn’t just the corporate body that collects our tuition and signs our paycheques, gives us degrees and tells …