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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.
News International students

Ottawa won’t restrict student visas from countries with high asylum-claim rates

India will help Canada ‘crack down’ on student program abuses, high commissioner says.
News Students

Students and seniors under the same roof

Intergenerational living helps with loneliness and the high cost of rent.

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.

Maureen MacDonald

Maureen J. MacDonald is Provost and Vice-President (Academic), McMaster University.

Opinion Research

Funding the future

Investing in student research tackles youth unemployment while building Canada’s future economy.

by
Maureen MacDonald
December 01, 2025
Opinion Advice

The fine art of balancing family and work

The problem of equity is not new, nor is it unique to science, though I sense we’ve been ready to solve it for a long time.

by
Maureen MacDonald
September 22, 2017

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