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#1 Submitted by mark.... on April 11, 2023 - 2:02pm

In the managed university, academic administrators are happy to use discipline all the way up to firing in order to protect and extend their non-academic agendas. Peter Bowal has a useful article on how and why academic administrators are now keen to rely on claims about the employment relationship when dealing with difficult (to them) professors: https://safs.ca/newsletters/article.php?article=1211

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