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Must we rebuild Québec universities ? A Colloquium organized by the Fédération québécoise des professeures et
professeurs d’université With Honorary Chair, Professor Guy Rocher
NOVEMBER 6 & 7, 2008 Hôtel Gouverneur Place Dupuis, Montréal
PROGRAMME
Thursday, November 6, 2008 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and registration 10:00 Opening remarks (Cécile Sabourin, President of FQPPU) Colloquium address (Pierre Hébert, for the Organizing Committee) 10:10 – 10:50 Keynote session 10:10 – 10 :40 Reconstructions in the Québec university : on to the next step Guy Rocher (Université de Montréal) 10 : 40 – 10 : 50 Discussion 10:50 – 11:45 Working conditions of professors 10:50 - 11:30 Portrait of the Québec professoriate : preliminary survey results
Frédéric Deschenaux (Université du Québec à Rimouski) Nathalie Dyke (Freelance researcher)
11:30 – 11:45 Discussion 11:45 Dinner at Hôtel Gouverneur 1:30 – 3:00 The Quebec university situation 1:00 – 1:50 The university in the knowledge society and economy : a mission under pressure
– a need to innovate Céline Saint-Pierre (CEFRIO)
1:50 – 2:10 Academic work under a production-line regime : a study of the pernicious effects on health of mandatory creativity Chantal Leclerc, Bruno Bourassa and Isabelle Skakni (Centre de recherche et d’intervention sur l’éducation et la vie au travail, Université Laval)
2:10 – 2:30 Referents of public policies on university research in Québec Jean Bernatchez (Université du Québec à Rimouski) 2:30 – 3:00 Discussion 3:00 Break 3:30 – 4:30 University situation outside Québec 3: 0 – 3:50 Higher Education Trends in the United States
James Rice (National Education Association) 3:50 – 4:10 Looking Outside: Global Currents and the Future of the University
David Robinson (Canadian Association of University Teachers) 4:10– 4:30 Discussion
4:30 Reception
Special event and launch of research report on the professoriate by Frédéric Deschenaux and Nathalie Dyke
Free evening
Friday, November 7, 2008 9:00 – 10:30 Research and its impact on teaching
9:00 – 9:20 Vive la recherche libre ! Andrée Lajoie (Université de Montréal)
9:20 – 9:40 The University as Corporate Handmaiden: Who’re Ya Gonna Trust? Arthur Schafer (University of Manitoba)
9:40 – 10:00 Evaluating the effects of academic research : findings and recommendations from the Groupe de travail de l’Institut Santé et société
Diane Berthelette (Université du Québec à Montréal) 10:00 – 10:30 Discussion 10:30 Break 10:50 – 11:50 Management and governance 1 10:50 – 11:10 Preserving assets and meeting challenges linked to university mission
Nicole Boutin (Conseil supérieur de l’éducation) 11:10 – 11:30 Governance set against university management Dorval Brunelle (Université du Québec à Montréal) 11:30 – 11:50 Discussion
12:00 Dinner at Hôtel Gouverneur 1:30 – 2:30 Management and governance 2
1:30 – 1:50 Financing and governance Michel Umbriaco (Téluq-Uqam) and Alain Dupuis (Téluq-Uqam and Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance)
1:50 – 2:10 Boards of Governors and the "new university governance" Simon Tremblay-Pepin (doctoral student, York University)
2:10 – 2:30 Discussion 2:30 – 3:30 The university and powers 2:30 – 2:50 If the university loses its social authority, how will it overcome ignorance ? Jean Bédard (philosopher, writer and social worker) 2:50 – 3:10 “Imagination Will not Breed in Captivity ” The Network of Concerned Historians
After Thirteen Years Antoon de Baets (University of Groningen, Netherland)
3:10 – 3:30 The Noir Canada affair Normand Mousseau (Université de Montréal)
3:30 – 4:00 Discussion 4:00 Closing session