September 13, 2005 Source: Concordia University:
http://publicaffairs.concordia.ca/mediaroom/pressreleases/2005/09/004853.shtml GRADUATE STUDENTS TO TACKLE A VARIETY OF ISSUES MONTREAL/September 13, 2005 — Conference Highlights Contributions to Education and Research >From September 16-18, local graduate students will come together with leaders and researchers from other Canadian universities in the context of the conference Graduate Student Contributions to Education and Research, organized by the Concordia Graduate Students’ Association (GSA). On Friday September 16 at 3:30 pm Dr. Neil Tudiver, Assistant Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers and author of Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control of Higher Education (Lorimer), will present the keynote address in the J.A. de Sève Cinema in the J.W. McConnell Building (1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). It will be followed by a wine and cheese reception at the GSA’s Grad House (2030 Mackay St., Suite 202). Dr. Tudiver will explore the challenges faced by students, as cash-strapped post-secondary institutions turn increasingly to the private sector. “The university must function as a place for open discussion, debate and dissent,” explains Dr. Tudiver. “Students play a central role in these activities that are threatened by commercialization.” Workshops will be offered on various aspects of graduate student contribution to education and research, including teaching and research assistantship and unionization, feminist grad student approaches to teaching and learning, and the role of graduate students in the 2005 Quebec-wide general unlimited student strike. Conference participants include Dr. Lillian Robinson, Principal of Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute, representatives from Ottawa-based UWatch (www.uwatch.ca), CUPE union activists from York University in Toronto, the Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship, and Engineers without Boarders, among others. More information is available on the GSA web site http://gsa.concordia.ca. Or contact David Bernans (GSA President) at 514-848-7421, email: gsapres@alcor.concordia.ca. - 30-
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