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#721 spanky123

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Posted 09 February 2024 - 09:46 AM

University of Victoria cutting budget by $13M

Cut represents 4% of total operating budget. Staff reductions are expected.

https://www.timescol...million-8274232


It’s a 4% cut. Don’t they have enough reserves to simply reduce staff through natural attrition? Which surely is closer to 10%.


The only natural attrition they get is when someone dies or qualifies for the max pension (and then they just come back as a casual prof anyways).

Where else can you get a six figure salary for a couple hours work a week?
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#722 spanky123

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Posted 09 February 2024 - 09:49 AM

Perhaps UVIC needs to focus on education instead of political activism, hotel and bar ownership, and building real estate empires simple to provide offices for their pampered profs. My guess is that they would have lots of money to do that.
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#723 lanforod

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Posted 09 February 2024 - 10:26 AM

I really don't agree with you.

Anyways, UVic long ago sold the hotel, and its hard to say that's a focus, when it was a gift. UVic Properties is a separate entity anyways.

 

There is something to be said for the political stuff. Perhaps less money should be spent on costly initiatives that are currently popular 'flavour of the day' stuff, like the heavy focus on indigenous initiatives, climate change, and gender related stuff.

However, political activism isn't a business focus - to me, that's mainly left wing student orgs and faculty doing that stuff. Students who haven't had the real life impacts of life to realize that what they are advocating often leads to dangerous results...  



#724 lanforod

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Posted 09 February 2024 - 10:27 AM

University of Victoria cutting budget by $13M

Cut represents 4% of total operating budget. Staff reductions are expected.

https://www.timescol...million-8274232


It’s a 4% cut. Don’t they have enough reserves to simply reduce staff through natural attrition? Which surely is closer to 10%.

 

Reserves for this purpose were used last year, is what I understand. 


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#725 LJ

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Posted 12 February 2024 - 08:03 PM

Here is where woke began....

 

https://youtu.be/kVk...hmCvQtRGg4BvDBb


Life's a journey......so roll down the window and enjoy the breeze.

#726 amor de cosmos

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Posted 12 February 2024 - 10:07 PM

straight away i thought of the sokal affair and sure enough there's a link to this grievance studies hoax at the bottom :lol:


Edited by amor de cosmos, 12 February 2024 - 10:11 PM.


#727 lanforod

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Posted 13 February 2024 - 08:39 AM

Here is where woke began....

 

https://youtu.be/kVk...hmCvQtRGg4BvDBb

 

That's a symptom, not where it started... but yeah.


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#728 Matt R.

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Posted 09 March 2024 - 11:26 PM

VIU might be cutting some music from its course offerings due to budget shortfalls.

Of course “… VIU communications director Gillian Robinson provided annual salary expenditure figures showing that salaries for the university’s administrative bargaining unit grew from $12.3 million to $18 million in the past ten years, equivalent to a 46 per cent increase” and “Faculty association salaries grew from $37.5 million to $53.8 million during the same period for an increase of 43 per cent.”

https://www.timescol... program so far.

#729 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 02:13 AM

Is there any indication that long-term formal music training produces stronger professional musicians?

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 04:55 AM

Jamey Jesperson faces the uphill battle for visibility navigating academia as a trans woman studying anti-colonial histories. Her journey highlights the challenge in platforming and amplifying voices both like and unlike hers—critical in conveying the realities of trans histories. 

 

Jesperson's dissertation stems from a challenge—and invitation—by Saylesh Wesley, a Stó:lō Two-Spirit Knowledge Keeper. Known as a leader of Two-Spirit resurgence, Wesley entrusted Jesperson with her oral history in the summer of 2022, now archived at the Stó:lō Library & Archives. 

 

Jesperson's studies at The New School in New York, where she learned and organized with queer Indigenous-led collectives as a settler scholar, deeply influence her research at UVic, grounding her work in a commitment to anti-colonial politics. As she begins her research for her dissertation project, titled "A Trans Indigenous History of the Pacific Northwest," her goal is to re-story colonial narratives of contact between settlers and trans Indigenous people in the early colonial period, 1774-1857. 

 

Central to her research is pushing back against damage-centred narratives of trans Indigenous pasts. Collaborating with Wesley and mentor Tłaliłila’ogwa, Dr. Sarah Hunt, Jesperson aims to revive silenced and often violent histories, focusing instead on stories of trans Indigenous autonomy, resistance, and survivance across the centuries. 

 

Trained as an ethnohistorian, Jesperson specializes in dissecting colonial archives, extracting stories from sparse references. She describes this method as "looking for glimpses and glimmers," referring to uncovering a sentence about an historical trans person and building their narrative from context. 

 

The Vanier scholarship holds profound significance for Jesperson, serving as a vital resource for her research aspirations as a trans woman in academia.

 

 

 

https://www.uvic.ca/...-jesperson news

 

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 March 2024 - 04:55 AM.


#731 Nparker

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 06:58 AM

Defund UVic.

#732 Tony

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 08:08 AM

Two Spirit, precolonial use of the term.

Two-spirit commonly referred to gender identity, dress and traditional roles. The Cree terms napêw iskwêwisêhot and iskwêw ka napêwayat respectively reference men who dress like women and women who dress like men. The Siksika (Blackfoot) term aakíí’skassi described men who performed roles typically associated with women, such as basket weaving and pottery-making. Similarly, the Ktunaxa (Kootenay) term titqattek described females who took on roles traditionally characterized as masculine, including healing, hunting and warfare. One of the most well-known two-spirit people who identified as female was We’wha (1846–96) of New Mexico. She was referred to as lhaman or “mixed gender” in the Zuni language. In various Indigenous cultures, temperament, work roles, dress and lifestyle distinguished two-spirited individuals from men and women.

In some cases, the term referred specifically to sexuality. However, two-spirit people did not necessarily see themselves as homosexual; sexual relationships between a two-spirit and a non-two-spirit were considered hetero-normative. While European colonists considered two-spirit people homosexual, and while the modern usage of the term can describe homosexual people, historically, two-spirit people did not so easily identify as either homosexual or heterosexual.

Two-spirit also referred to spiritual identity. In many Indigenous communities, two-spirited individuals were believed to have received supernatural intervention in the form of dreams and visions. As such, they often filled special spiritual roles in their communities as healers, shamans and ceremonial leaders (see Indigenous People: Religion and Spirituality).


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#733 amor de cosmos

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Posted 10 March 2024 - 08:52 AM

not only is it not "made up" it isn't even a new subject of study. if you fast-forward to 37:00 in this episode of the nature of things from 2013 (before "woke" became a phenomenon) you'll find a segment about trans women in samoa: https://www.dailymot...m/video/x5f2z92


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