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[Daveyboy]

"More and more professors are going on sick leave and an “undue amount” of faculty are on long-term disability, she said. “What I’m seeing is that people are at the end of their rope.”"

 

Not a great surprise to see this happening after all of the micro aggressions those professors have experienced over the many years.

Edited by Daveyboy, 23 April 2024 - 06:52 AM.

[spanky123]

"More and more professors are going on sick leave and an “undue amount” of faculty are on long-term disability, she said. “What I’m seeing is that people are at the end of their rope.”"

 

Standard tactic when cuts are coming. HR will be reluctant to fire anyone on sick leave or LTD due to the risk of a lawsuit and will thus let go the competent and hard working staff instead.

[Victoria Watcher]

What a joke.

[Mike K.]

Oh my. I had not heard of that tactic before.

[Victoria Watcher]

Camosun College faculty spur creation of decolonized English assessments

National interest in new tool that will better suit prospective Indigenous students

https://www.vicnews....ssments-7350112



Maureen Niwa saw Indigenous students receiving low scores on assessments despite their work, such as essays, showing profound wisdom, reflection and insights. It was then that Niwa realized schools were using the wrong tool.

“The current tool is American-based, contains language that may trigger trauma, and overlooks common Indigenous cultural practices such as storytelling, community-based experiences, land-based issues and values placed on family,” Niwa, a Camosun English instructor, said in the release.








Values placed on family? If we are to believe a lot of the “mass graves” stuff it seems a lot of indigenous lost track of who were in their family. Or how they were misplaced.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 05:49 PM.

[Nparker]

I don't acknowledge the term "decolonized".

[Tony]

Many IQ test results were biased because the norms were established based on only a segment of the population.

 

Perhaps this American based evaluation rubric is another example of a built in bias?