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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: October 2016
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Tuesday, October 18, 2016. Statement for Board of Governors Faculty Election. The University needs a Board that is accountable, transparent, values shared governance, and is responsive to faculty, staff, and students. This past year, we heard loud and clear why the Board needs a renewed commitment to accountability and shared governance. A story of his home community Gitxaała, north coast BC. And his blog. http:/ charlesmenzies.blogspot.ca/. A Note on This Blog.
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: April 2014
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. World is there any sort of real expectation of digital privacy? We can – and should- rail against such intrusive acts of government into communications that we have been told are private. Here the individual can’t blame an intrusive outside agency. Rather, the individual puts the disclosures and publicity out there themselves. Politicians tend to get stuck more frequently than the rest of us. Witness the feckless Irish politician. Court de...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: Speaking notes: UBCFA-BoG Faculty Candidates Forum, Nov. 24, 2016
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Saturday, November 26, 2016. Speaking notes: UBCFA-BoG Faculty Candidates Forum, Nov. 24, 2016. I acknowledge that we are on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam Nation. Over my years at UBC I have been actively involved in our community. My academic research is focussed on resource dependent communities here in British Columbia and in Western Europe (Brittany and Ireland). Our faculty needs strong and diverse voices that will not be conten...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: October 2014
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Sunday, October 12, 2014. Early on in my career at UBC I found myself with my two young sons at a Thunderbirds’ basketball game in War Memorial Gym. I’d picked them up from their swimming lessons. On the way home we stopped to watch the women’s game. The wife of one of my colleagues was also there with her children. Nearly twenty years later that comment sits with me as though it had only been said yesterday. Sometimes we find ourselves in a series of part-time or ...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: December 2015
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Wednesday, December 2, 2015. You Don't Look Indian. Detail of Painting by Greg Deal. During the recent American Anthropological Association meetings in Denver (Nov. 18-23, 2015) I took some time to visit the Denver Art Museum. Leaving aside the touristic complements - it is a great museum- I was struck by the Native American art section, tucked discretely to the edges of the main complex. It is striking in its breadth and force of the works on display. My father sa...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: January 2017
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Act as a Reasonable Person in the Best Interests of the University. The very first listed duty of a member of the UBC Board of Governors " act in the best interests of the. And with a view to. Advancing its welfare" (clause 3.1.1) and that furthermore each member shall ". Exercise the care, skill and diligence that would be exercised in. To me there are two very important underlying issues: (1) how does one decide what constitutes the "be...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: March 2014
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Monday, March 31, 2014. Excellence and the Corporate University. Excellence is the goal contemporary society strives for: excellence in sport, in business, in art, in. There is, however, a problem if too many people get the reward. The crux of excellence is its reliance upon failure as the foil against which it is itself determined. Excellence is no absolute; it’s a normative measure that relies on failure and the threat of failure to propel people to...In my autoe...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: Commitment to Transparency and Engagement
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Monday, November 28, 2016. Commitment to Transparency and Engagement. Over the last decade or so one UBC faculty Governor has set the gold standard of faculty engagement and transparency in governance. Nassif Ghoussoub, writing in his blog Piece of Mind. Made his views known, encouraged discussion and engaged with us as peers in the governance of UBC. I find much to emulate in Nassif's example. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Note on This Blog. Film Unit @ UBC.
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: Issues
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. Over the course of 2015-2016 we have seen that governance structures and processes at UBC need change. Faculty were clear - it’s time to clean up the mess that closed-door meetings and sparse record keeping had created. But more importantly, work needs to be done to put words into action: Don’t tell use you respect us, show us! Ultimately it is insufficient to treat UBC as though it is simply a business. We are more than that. The narrow business minded foc...This ...
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC: BoG Related Invites
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Charles Menzies. Faculty Member at UBC. This page lists invites received during my term as an elected member of the UBC Board of Governors. As part of my platform of transparency I believe that it is important for community members to be aware of the various functions, events, and meetings that I am invited to attend in my capacity of a member of the UBC Board of Governance. Listing is in reverse chronological order by date of invite. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Note on This Blog. Film Unit @ UBC.
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