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This chapter is an analysis of job satisfaction reported by full-time academic staff in Canadian universities as part of the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) project. We begin this chapter by providing a brief overview of the context of academic work in Canadian universities, followed by a description of the methodology for the survey of university academics that provided the foundation for this analysis. We then report and discuss study findings related to overall job satisfaction, provide an analysis of academic staff satisfaction with a range of workplace and institutional factors, and explore differences in reported satisfaction by demographic characteristics of academic staff. We summarise our findings and offer a number of conclusions in the final section of this chapter.
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There are no universities in the three northern territories (Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories) though Yukon College has recently been given the authority to grant degrees and there are ongoing discussions about creating a university for the Canadian north.
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Weinrib, J. et al. (2013). Canadian University Academics’ Perceptions of Job Satisfaction: “…The Future Is Not What It Used to Be”. In: Bentley, P., Coates, H., Dobson, I., Goedegebuure, L., Meek, V. (eds) Job Satisfaction around the Academic World. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5434-8_5
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