{"id":10331,"date":"2015-09-07T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2015-09-07T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:24:43","slug":"cufabc-wake-up-caut-ubc-ubcnews-ubyssey-bced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/09\/cufabc-wake-up-caut-ubc-ubcnews-ubyssey-bced\/","title":{"rendered":"#CUFABC, wake-up call #caut #ubc #ubcnews #ubyssey #bced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cufa.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia<\/strong>\u00a0(CUFA BC)<\/a> represents over 5,500 professors, lecturers, instructors, professional librarians and other academic staff at British Columbia&#8217;s five research universities.&#8221; Yet this esteemed association has been curiously silent as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca\/index.php#Updates\" target=\"_blank\">FAUBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caut.ca\/news\/2015\/08\/19\/ubc-chair-should-step-down-during-academic-freedom-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">CAUT<\/a> have been diligent in pressing the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/broadcastemail.ubc.ca\/2015\/08\/12\/message-from-dr-martha-piper\/\" target=\"_blank\">world\u2019s preeminent<\/a>&#8221; (very slippery) (slope of the) University of British Columbia to come clean over the resignation of President Arvind Gupta.<\/p>\n<p>East\u00a0in Ontario, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocufa.on.ca\/blog-posts\/faculty\/ubc-faculty-association-caut-calls-for-resignation-of-ubc-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\">OCUFA<\/a> has been active and vocal in pressing for answers. But here at home, CUFABC has been silent. Have we missed something here? Wake-up call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The\u00a0Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia\u00a0(CUFA BC) represents over 5,500 professors, lecturers, instructors, professional librarians and other academic staff at British Columbia&#8217;s five research universities.&#8221; Yet this esteemed association has been curiously silent as the FAUBC and CAUT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/09\/cufabc-wake-up-caut-ubc-ubcnews-ubyssey-bced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,747,2249,406501,211,1223,2270,2275],"tags":[1288925,1288923,1288922,1288963,2674],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-academics","category-accountability","category-bc-education","category-faculty","category-governance","category-solidarity","category-unions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-administration","tag-faculty","tag-unions","tag-university-presidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}