Bibliographic record
Abstract
Thanks for the invitation to be here, which we take as recognition of our supportive and aware membership and to the efforts and successes of our many, many activists over the past twenty years.The VCC is one of the larger post-secondary institutions in British Columbia.There's an average of close to 700 faculty.It has the typical array of about 50 programs one would expect from a community college, with a smaller proportion of academic, university-transfer type programs than other BC colleges.It is primarily government funded (60%) with other income and tuition making up the rest of its $90 million annual budget.For labour relation purposes, all colleges and university-college administrations in BC have over the past decade become more integrated into the government-mandated Post-Secondary Employers' Association of BC.This organization now controls VCC's financial mandate for bargaining and ability to settle grievances if the settlement would create a new precedent.The VCCFA started in 1951 as an independent, provincial vocational school instructors' union.We retain our own bargaining and grievance settling authority, and have joined our voluntary provincial federation of faculty unions for professional and political support and advice.Our current membership is roughly 60% regular (46% full time and 14% at half-time or more) and 40% term.We collect dues of 2% of gross wages from all of them (union dues are tax-deductible in Canada); 43% of member dues go to our provincial federation and we retain the balance, about $400,000 annually, for our operating purposes and for our local defense fund. Starting with a strong union legacyWe will always owe a debt to every hard won labour victory over the past one hundred plus years.Because of the selfless sacrifice and determination of generations of labour activists, we, as new faculty workers, came to our jobs with automatic dues check off, collective bargaining, the right to strike, and legally enshrined grievance and arbitration rights.We at VCC were fortunate compared to many North American post-secondary workplaces today.We originally did not have many part-timers and we were
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.061 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".