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UCalgary postdoc studying how to protect cattle from pesky flies

Not just a nuisance, flies pose potential health and behavioural risks to cows.
How to be an ally

An interview with Michael Kehler, a University of Calgary researcher who specializes in the intersection of gender and education.
News Campus news

UNB student launches interdisciplinary fashion project into zero gravity

Who knew a flower could bloom in space?
News

A moment in time: Brock’s 60th anniversary time capsule

The university is hoping the time capsule will ‘send a message to future generations of Brock Badgers.’

Opinion Equity

Black women in Canadian universities face systemic racism and discrimination

A portrait of the systemic challenges faced by Black female professors in Canadian universities, and ways to support them.
Opinion Equity

A guide for supporting BIPOC staff for success 

If you want to sustain more diverse teams, you have to create the environment for their success.
Opinion Equity

Universities must resist undermining efforts to make real social change

Replacing EDI with ‘belonging’ runs counter to the very clear objectives of equity, diversity, and inclusion programs.
Opinion Students

Reflections on a transformative era in global politics

We must embrace resistance through a transformative student-centred lens.

Features Equity

The long road to equity

Despite increased institutional commitment, experiences of men and women faculty differ starkly.
Features Equity

Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions

A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.
Feature articles Israel-Hamas conflict

Taking stock: Multiple perspectives on pro-Palestinian protests

Activists and administrations from Halifax to Nanaimo review policies after this spring’s pro-Palestinian encampments.
Features

Activists-in-residence enrich and test universities

New programs are emerging on campuses across the country, but finding funding for these positions is a challenge.

Career Advice Advice

Strategies to help with the hardest part of our job: grading

Grading can be tedious, but there are ways to make it more human and – surprisingly – more fun.
Career Advice Advice

Teaching in a world of bleakness

Instructors have the opportunity to provide students with empathy, context and skills to manage our current context.
Career Advice Advice

Emphasize this: structuring highly readable sentences and paragraphs (Part 1 of 2)

If your writing is being labeled as ‘too dense’, there are some simple ways to reorder the words in your sentences.
Career Advice Advice

The curious incident of the nobbled college and university retiree associations

All soon-to-be-retired academics should be encouraged to join their institution’s retiree association – but some don’t even know it exists.

Jamie Paris

Jamie Paris is instructor in the faculty of arts at the University of Manitoba.

Opinion Policy

The exploitation trap of hope labour

Non-tenured and precarious faculty deserve better.

by
Jamie Paris
October 24, 2024
Career Advice Advice

The ‘End of the English Major’ misses the point

English departments will continue to matter if they remain places where students’ ideas are considered.

by
Jamie Paris
August 28, 2023

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