And We're Off!

Welcome all to the Campaign for Quality Education blog!  Over the next few months I'll be travelling to all 24 Ontario community colleges and speaking with professors, counselors, librarians and students about their educational experience.

The campaign is sponsored by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the CAAT-A division in particular.  This is the division that includes the professors, counselors and librarians at Ontario's colleges - the people that work with students on the front-lines of post-secondary education.

The purpose of the campaign is to collect stories and raise awareness about the challenges facing our members in an environment that is suffering from scarce funding, increasingly corporate and autocratic management, and decreasing full-time work.  We're hoping to reverse these trends in coming contract negotiations, and to give professors, counselors and librarians the ability to protect academic standards, ensure the full-time staffing needed to deliver quality education, and create a collegial work environment that respects faculty academic freedom.

In the coming weeks I will be posting about my trips to different colleges, about the stories I've heard, and about the complex issues that confront education today.  Please check back often, as I'll be updating regularly!