{"id":6409,"date":"2009-05-11T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2009-05-11T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:26:59","slug":"us-academics-staying-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/05\/us-academics-staying-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. academics staying in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University Affairs:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/us-academics-staying-in-canada.aspx\"> U.S. academics staying in Canada<\/a><br \/>\nSome who moved north in Bush presidency have no plans to return<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, just after George Bush was re-elected President of the United States, University Affairs told the story of a number of American academics who had recently moved to Canada \u2013 attracted north by jobs but also by this country\u2019s more liberal attitudes. (See \u201cThe pursuit of happiness,\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, those academics are still here. All say they\u2019re committed to staying despite the election of Barack Obama in the U.S. and the less certain outlook for research funding in Canada. And \u2013 while this is by no means a scientific survey \u2013 they say they\u2019ve heard of no American-born colleagues who are packing up and going back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Affairs: U.S. academics staying in Canada Some who moved north in Bush presidency have no plans to return In 2005, just after George Bush was re-elected President of the United States, University Affairs told the story of a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/05\/us-academics-staying-in-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[68,2645],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-conditions","tag-canada","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}