{"id":10361,"date":"2015-09-12T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T20:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2015-09-13T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:55:45","slug":"alicelaberge-time-to-respond-ubc-rbc-caut-ubyssey-bced-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/09\/alicelaberge-time-to-respond-ubc-rbc-caut-ubyssey-bced-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"#AliceLaBerge time to respond #UBC be #RBC #ubcnews #caut #ubyssey #bced #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice Laberge, Acting Chair of UBC, Corporate Director of RBC<\/a>, time to disclose. On 1 September, the Faculty Association of UBC requested\u00a0that you<\/a>\u00a0please<\/p>\n

call upon the Board of Governors to approach Professor Gupta to renegotiate the terms of his resignation agreement so that both the University and Professor Gupta are able to speak fully to the reasons for his resignation.<\/p>\n

On 3 September, the Graduate Student Society of UBC<\/a>\u00a0openly stated:<\/p>\n

The GSS has concluded that the practices of the UBC Board of Governors are not sufficiently transparent to ensure that UBC\u2019s values \u2013 integrity, public interest, mutual respect and equity \u2013 are maintained.<\/p>\n

We know what you must be thinking: there is not much difference between UBC and RBC. That’s why Corporate Directors are needed on BoG and in the President’s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In academia and banking, confidentiality or\u00a0non-disclosure agreements are increasingly common. These agreements are increasingly used\u00a0to move what would otherwise be public into a private or nonpublic arrangement, under the aegis of privacy protection.<\/p>\n

In 2004,\u00a0the Federal Information Commissioner expressed concerns<\/a> that civil servants, lawyers and managers in public institutions in Canada were managing “to find ingenious ways to wiggle and squirm to avoid the full operation of the law.”\u00a0Reflecting what we see nowadays at UBC, the\u00a0Commissioner observed” “The attitude has truly become,’Why write it when you can speak it? Why speak it when you can nod? Why nod when you can wink?'”<\/p>\n

In “A Love Affair with Secrecy<\/a>,” Berlin writes that the “Access to Information Act<\/em><\/a> was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.”<\/p>\n

Increasingly, at UBC and RBC, public information becomes private.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0URBC<\/del> UBC and RBC, non-disclosure agreements are increasingly common to deflect\u00a0distracting\u00a0things such as Freedom of Information requests.<\/p>\n

Regarding\u00a0President Gupta’s resignation, the BoG and Legal Counsel compressed and\u00a0reduced an\u00a0inordinate amount of public information\u00a0to privacy protection. That’s unsustainable and troubling. How much is too much?<\/p>\n

Please respond to the FAUBC<\/a> that the terms of the confidentiality agreement have been renegotiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice Laberge, Acting Chair of UBC, Corporate Director of RBC, time to disclose. On 1 September, the Faculty Association of UBC requested\u00a0that you\u00a0please call upon the Board of Governors to approach Professor Gupta to renegotiate the terms of his resignation … Continue reading →<\/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":[554,2249,287,211,1223,2273,2275,2276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-accountability","category-administration","category-faculty","category-governance","category-students","category-unions","category-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361","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=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}