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Manitoba’s road to recovery
The oft-overlooked Prairie province’s higher education sector is beginning to recover after several years of budget cuts, strikes and government interference.
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The excellence dilemma
Are equity, diversity and inclusion criteria and sustainable development goals compatible with academia’s obsession with excellence?
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The political battle over postsecondary education in Alberta
The western province has been through some dark times when it comes to funding. Will the newly elected government bring solutions, or more controversy?
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Research through the lens
Photo contests are gaining in popularity as a powerful way to share and promote research.
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Meet Wisdom Tettey, Carleton University’s new president
Transformation through education.
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Thompson Rivers University seeks experts to shape the future of online education
Subject matter experts collaborate with instructional designers to create high quality content for online courses.
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AI in Education Forum 2024: Unleashing AI’s potential for transformative learning
This groundbreaking conference on AI is organized by the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications.
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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.
