"We regret to announce that SPHR will no longer be able to use the McGill name," the students' society announced.
McGill University has ordered a Palestinian-rights group on campus to remove the word “McGill” from its name after talks broke down between the two sides.
"So why is the premier so hell-bent on destroying institutions that have given so much to the province and the world? For one thing, his former party, the separatist Parti Québécois, is eating his lunch at the polls. [...] Legault wants to re-establish his bona fides with nationalist francophone voters, and figures putting the boot to Anglophones is one way to do it."
«Let’s not mince words: #Quebec Premier #FrançoisLegault wants 2 kill #Montreal’s #English universities. On Thurs the QC gov announced it will hike tuition 4 mostly English-speaking out-of-province students by 33% & require that 80% of students @ #McGill & #Concordia become proficient in #French @ a “Level 5”, or the schools will lose funding. 4 most non-Francophone students, that will require the equivalent o another semester o study — a sure-fire reason not 2 apply.»
New changes “are far worse than those announced on Oct. 13 — worse for Quebec, worse for its universities, worse for Quebec businesses who need talent, and worse for McGill.”
Quebec’s “catastrophic” plan to overhaul university financing is a “targeted attack” on English universities, McGill’s president says.
On January 15th, I'll be taking part alongside several other scholars in a symposium organized by Wilfrid Laurier University on legacies of racism and colonialism in Canadian universities. My talk will focus on the use in 1860 of funds held in trust for First Nations to bail out McGill College.
Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past - Reimagining the Future (9am-2:30pm, EST, online) @histodons
A #Quebec judge has ordered #McGill University to comply with a deal it reached with a group of #Indigenous women that outlines the search for possible unmarked graves at a former #Montreal hospital site.
The #Mohawk Mothers had argued that McGill and the province's infrastructure agency failed to properly involve the panel of #archeologists appointed to oversee the search for graves at the site of a future downtown campus expansion.
The proposal would have made #French-language courses mandatory for undergraduate students in exchange for the government backtracking on its plan to double tuition for non-Quebec students.»
Someone really cares about #orthography (or maybe they learned it in class?) that they tried to fix the #spelling of our university staff... (Edited: the #Canadian Oxford Dictionary lists "enrolment" as the word, which is the British spelling, but includes the American "enrollment" as a variation. Canadian websites use "enrolment.")
«The #StudentUnions of #Concordia and #McGill are coming together to denounce the #CAQ's #tuition hike because of fears that it will price-out many #Canadian students and saddle them with more #debt.
In a joint statement, student leaders from both universities wrote, "We ask that the province consider the obstacles that this will cause for access to #education and the unnecessary financial strains on those who wish to study in our universities."»
Montreal’s mayor says she’s concerned about the economic impact of a plan announced last week to nearly double the tuition for students from other provinces enrolled in Quebec’s English universities.
Good thing daughter will only have one term left by then. Yikes!
University tuition to double for out-of-province students in Quebec starting next year
The Quebec government made the announcement on Friday, framing it as a move to stop subsidizing students from the rest of Canada who come to Quebec’s English-language universities for a cheaper education.
“There are a lot of people who come to Quebec, who attend an English-language university and who very often express themselves in the English language on a daily basis.”
-Roberge (CAQ)
It seems like popular #lunch spot around #McGill all lurk in the most unnoticeable corners... (Low rent ≈ cheap prices?) Anyways, visited that Korean place, shared a table with two tourists to the city, chatted, admired each other's #food... and of course we all enjoyed our own meals!
I stumbled across a very good, new article, “The Aptness of Envy” by Jordan Walters, a #PoliSci grad student at #McGill. Walters builds on work of my one-time fellow grad student colleagues and friends Justin D’Arms and Dan Jacobson; he invokes one of my dissertation advisers, my good friend Elizabeth Anderson, and more senior colleagues I have met and read. I found myself in a rich #philosophy discussion, conducted across time, space, and minds. Article at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajps.12805