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Well, if the president says it's the province's fault and we're doing things in a reasonable way, who is a higher ed journalist to question it?

I'm tired of these articles that are basically "a couple of angry faculty say, but the president clarifies..."

theglobeandmail.com/gift/6107e8e18…
No one said our finances were at a Laurentian level. What we actually said, and still say, is that many of the same warning signs apply under this @uofg administration as highlighted in the Auditor Geberal's report on Laurentian.

#SaveUofG

“My job as president is to make sure that we are sustainable this year, next year, in five years and in 20 years,” Dr. Yates said.

We also had low international enrollment when she became Provost in 2015. Every university has an enrollment corridor and tuition freezes.
So, either this administration failed to make us sustainable when we had surplus (again, departments were being directed to spend this down by the BoG and admin), or they are making drastic and damaging moves as a reaction to the impact of a unique event, namely the pandemic.
And it's less about the budget and much more about the destruction of collegial governance, morale, and relationships. It's about the gaslighting and inability to ever admit any mistake. It's the lack of transparency and real consultation. It's the broken trust.
If the current @uofg administration couldn't make us sustainable with the huge surplus they inherited, why would anyone think they can do it now?

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Jun 1
Going to say it again. An audit of @uofg needs to investigate how we blew through the corridor on new enrollments last year. Seems likely that *someone* panicked about not meeting targets (especially internationsl) and gave the instruction to send out (way too many) more offers.
The registrar was let go (and now the AVPA, who was appointed without a search, is doing that job as well), but I have no doubt it came from the top. President? Provost? Board of Governors? *Someone* is responsible for the massive increase in workload we're dealing with now.
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May 26
Uh oh. Info like this being shared by a long COVID patient harms long COVID patients. Please only listen to their self-appointed spokesperson about how "normal, healthy people" aren't at risk and reinfections don't increase the chances of suffering from long COVID.

/SARCASM
For real, though, *please* listen to people with long COVID, the immunocompromised, and others with relevant lived experience. Ignore self-promoting minimizers.
Here's the study. I'm sure the minimizers are working on some arguments for why this is "obviously exaggerated" or whatever.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Read 5 tweets
May 25
The glee on display over this schoolyard bullying and disregard for the integrity of scientific discourse (a Twitter troll move in a peer-reviewed journal? Seriously?) is incredibly telling.
There is absolutely no doubt what this was, by the way. It's now on @ImmunolCellBiol editors and @ASImmunology to maintain the professional standards of their journal, unless the endorse this kind of thing.

Read 11 tweets
May 24
There is yet another XBB lineage that warrants a nickname as one to watch closely: XBB.1.22*.

XBB.1.22* = Bellatrix

(No, not after the Harry Potter character, the star in the Orion constellation)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellatrix…
Again, you'll be able to tell that this is a BA.2 lineage (name starts with A-H) and derived from a recombinant (R in the name).

whn.global/common-names-f…
It remains to be seen if XBB.1.22* will qualify as a VUM according to @WHO.

Read 7 tweets
May 17
On privilege and minimizing the pandemic:

1) People with greater economic privilege are less concerned about getting sick with COVID-19.

pewresearch.org/science/2023/0…
On privilege and minimizing the pandemic:

2) Many white people are less supportive of mitigation measures when they hear that COVID-19 disproportionately affects racialized people.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Read 4 tweets
May 6
🎉"Trending down!"🎉

(Pay no attention to where it has been since early 2022 and how high it still is) COVID hospitalizations in C...
Hospitalizations in Canada have been elevated since the first "Omicron" variant in late 2021.

They're declining and are now lower than they've been for 16 months.

They're still higher than the *peak* of the Delta wave. Hospitalizations in Canada.
In the UK, it's been nearly 2 years of high levels of hospitalizations. Hospitalizations in the UK.
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