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Taking mental wellness education beyond the campus: How universities can help respond to the mental health care crisis
The growing interest in wellness is an opportunity for universities to provide evidence-based information beyond campuses, in the broader community.
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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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Should university instructors disclose mental health conditions? It’s complicated
The choice about whether or not to disclose a mental health condition to colleagues or managers, or to share a personal mental illness story with students, includes a number of complex factors.
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Why it’s wrong to blame online learning for causing mental health issues during COVID-19
Focusing on online learning as the problem means lost opportunities to identify solutions and supports for student well-being, which could then be designed into online, in-person or mixed forms of learning.
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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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How climate storytelling helps people navigate complexity and find solutions
For a consumer, for instance, making the switch to an electric vehicle is a difficult decision.
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Gender pay gap: it’s roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors across a lifetime
The gender pay gap for faculty in Canadian universities is significant and persistent.
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The pandemic exposed the vulnerability of international students in Canada
Universities and colleges need better, more easily accessible and culturally competent mental health services targeted to the needs of international students.
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Humanities are essential in understanding the Russian war against Ukraine
While there is no doubt that the Ukraine crisis benefits from expertise in fields like political science and economics, many journalists and public commentators have been using skills or discussing subjects associated with the humanities.
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Ukrainian academics face exile, harassment and censorship in ongoing war
The full extent of the damage on scholars and research will not be known for some time, but predictions are grim.
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Early-career professors want changes in how tenure is evaluated in wake of pandemic effects on productivity
Researchers in a survey said they don’t want to delay their tenure review but have the criteria for it shift.
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Teaching university students to be ‘age-conscious’ could help address our elder care crisis
What it’s like to get older? A course on the psychology of aging helped students gain empathy and curiosity.
