Can’t Lit

Links for my 29 Nov. 2011 Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations lecture at Acadia University.

Lecture title(s): “Neither Therapy nor After-School Club: the Creative Education Canada Denies Its Students” (aka: “The Deeper and Sweeter Revolution: the Necessity of Creativity in Education”)

If you liked the talk and know anyone at Nipissing University who might like to hear me read from my novel, please share the fact that I’m to read there on Thurs. 16 Feb. 2012 (c/o the English department).

Lecture Links:

Download Nicole Dixon’s “Art Starts Here” adbust.

CAUT Bulletin story about the MILLIONS Concordia University paid in severance to senior administrators.

Vancouver Sun story about the $263,000 golden parachute for a fired Thompson Rivers University president.

AWP “Report on the 2005-2006 Academic Job Market by Kristin Hahn and Caren Scott” with stats on the exponential growth of CW as a discipline in the US.

Denis Dutton’s excellent TED talk (a short version of his superb book The Art Instinct).

Daniel Pink’s podcast from his book Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers WIll Rule the Future. Search for his name.

The Canadian Federation of Students’ policy page, with links for their “Public Education for the Public Good” report.

Where to buy “eat the tenured” tee shirts.

An older, smaller version my talk in a THIS Magazine column.

Illustration by Dave Donald

To MFA or not to MFA, that is the question.