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Meeting the moment together
Universities Canada’s new chair of the board of directors Joy Johnson on the path forward for higher education.
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P.E.I. : Small island, big challenges
The ‘garden of the gulf’ has been grappling with a number of tumultuous issues in higher education, most of which involve its sole university.
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Time to rethink Canada’s international education strategy
With the integrity of the international student system under fire, what can universities do?
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Conference childcare for scientists is starting to show signs of improvement
Things are progressing, but there is still work to be done.
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Meet Kevin McCormick, Founding President of the Canadian Institute for Human Rights and Global Health
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Why campus novels matter
The campus novel is fiction for our times, but the best of the genre is timeless.
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Pioneering biologist Anne Innis Dagg gets her due
Canada’s “queen of giraffes” – denied tenure because she was a woman, despite her groundbreaking research – finally gets the recognition she deserves.
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The Canadian revival of psychedelic drug research
In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
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A career exploring race, racism and stereotypes earns cinema professor Ali Kazimi a lifetime achievement award
The filmmaker and founder of York University’s Stereoscopic 3D Lab picked up the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual and Media Arts earlier this year.
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How a master’s thesis is pushing the boundaries of scholarship
For her thesis project, education grad Meghan Parker made an autobiographical graphic novel that argues for drawing to be recognized as a mode of scholarship.
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Strategic plans help universities tell their story
Though often viewed with skepticism, when done well, these plans can help to set an institution’s path.
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A fine balance: deciding who deserves an honorary degree
And what happens when controversy arises.
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The lure of learning analytics
Researchers now have access to a flood of educational data on students that they hope will offer insights on how to improve the learning experience. Will it work?
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Think tanks fill an important niche within Canada’s public policy landscape
The country’s various research and policy institutes “are highly adept at getting their messages heard in today’s crowded ideas marketplace,” says one expert.
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This KPU professor brought open-education advocacy all the way to the UN
Psychology professor Rajiv Jhangiani made the leap from international student to international stage as a tireless champion of open education practices.
