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News Research funding

Feds announce $880 million for research

Funding will support both established health scientists and emerging cross-disciplinary researchers.
News Arts

OCAD University celebrates 150 years of shaping Canadian culture

Art and design university launches $6-million campaign for 150 scholarships to mark 150th anniversary.
News Policy

B.C. higher education: tweak or reform?

In the coming provincial election, parties offer different proposals for a system under strain.
News Research

Canada ‘muddling through’ without national research infrastructure strategy, panel finds

Expert report says fragmented governance and funding threaten Canada's research competitiveness and scientific sovereignty.

Opinion Accessibility

An accessible campus is only part of a university’s responsibility

Universities must embed disability knowledge into core professional learning.
Opinion Artificial intelligence

Faculty well-being in the age of GenAI

When every student has an AI assistant, the writing teacher's job becomes both harder and more essential.
Opinion EDI

Committee’s EDI recommendations are based on flawed logic

Excellence must be sufficiently rigorous and inclusive to identify talent wherever it exists.
Opinion Arts

Building resilience in Arts through interdisciplinary collaborations

In a technology-enabled future, Arts faculties have an opportunity to demonstrate their relevance by making collaboration across disciplines easier and more visible.

Features Research

The Nuisance Variable

Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients in Canada are women. Why does research still treat them as an afterthought?
Features Policy

Quebec universities: 60 years of change

From the Quiet Revolution to the present day, universities have profoundly transformed Quebec society. As a provincial election rapidly approaches, we reflect on their changing mission over six decades of often tense history.
Features Research

A bridge to human rights

IDRA scholarship winner Karen Spring studies Central American communities seeking redress for harms caused by major development projects.
Features Research

Heat waves and brain waves

IDRA scholarship winner Tianqi Zhao studies climate change and mental health in South Africa.

Career Advice Research

How serendipity built a cross-disciplinary career

Taking research positions out of economic necessity allowed me to gather a broad set of skills and knowledge.
Career Advice Research

From doctoral student to entrepreneur

Resources abound to help you turn your PhD research into a business startup.
Career Advice Indigenous

Internationalizing Truth And Reconciliation through multilingual storytelling

Faculty share stories in their home and heart languages in the University of the Fraser Valley’s Leq'áleq’el Video Series.
Career Advice Writing

Show it clearly: illustrating a report for your community partners

Part II: How to design figures that tell your story.

Paul Wells

Paul Wells is a political journalist and best-selling author with a long-standing interest in higher education.

Opinion Communication

Improving universities’ public standing

How universities can help make their case.

by
Paul Wells
November 22, 2024
Opinion Policy

The growing estrangement between universities and society

The notion that the future of Canada lies in, or through, its universities is an increasingly hard sell.

by
Paul Wells
September 12, 2024

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