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Universities and colleges want to enrol more students. But where are they supposed to live?
Universities and colleges that seek to grow their student enrolments have an obligation to address student housing.
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The war in Ukraine shows how libraries play a vital role in challenging disinformation
They have a responsibility to teach users how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.
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Criticisms of academic freedom miss the mark and risk the integrity of scholarship
While academic freedom itself might sound like a unique notion, granting special tools or rights to specific professions is rather commonplace.
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Students returning to campus want the ‘university experience’ missed during COVID-19
Universities need to offer planned socializing for students who entered programs after 2020 and are less likely to know other people in their cohort.
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Want to reach out to an Indigenous scholar? Awesome! But first, here are 10 things to consider
Many Indigenous scholars forge ahead to passionately contribute to systemic change; however, as requests mount, and there’s not enough time to go around, we are stretched incredibly thin.
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National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: universities and schools must acknowledge how colonial education has reproduced anti-Indigenous racism
Reconciliation in education begins by acknowledging how educational systems — in particular, our universities, teacher education programs and curricula — have reproduced systemic anti-Indigenous racisms across Canada.
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Western University and other schools should cancel Frosh week to stop rape culture
Orientation week assaults persist because they are normalized as part of university culture.
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Canadian colleges and universities can mandate COVID-19 vaccination without violating Charter rights
Campus mandates are not forced vaccinations. Mandates offer choices: receive or decline the vaccine.
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‘Goodreads’ readers #ReadWomen, and so should university English departments
The social network website Goodreads provides insight into what some women are reading.
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Ryerson’s reputational crisis: what to do about its namesake and his legacy
Ryerson University needs to embrace an approach that prioritizes the public interest and truly listens to public conversations about decolonization.
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Postsecondary workplace harassment policies need to adapt to digital life
What happens when someone outside of the university community co-ordinates a mass email campaign demanding the firing of a faculty member? University policies need to cover this.
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Campus free speech: Does it extend to what students say online?
Weighing unrestricted expression against fostering a tolerant public sphere will test the fundamental freedoms we cherish in our democratic society.
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‘The great reset’: what universities should look like post-COVID
The pandemic has made the important work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and of aggressively fighting resurgent racism at an institutional level, all the more urgent.
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With campus co-operatives, universities could model new ways of living after COVID-19
Crises bring renewed interest in co-operatives.
