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Universities urged to work together to ramp up AI adoption
COU report outlines AI’s risks to privacy, security, integrity, autonomy, copyright, and the environment, while advising institutions to responsibly embrace the technology.
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Pro-Palestinian activists protest on Montreal campuses
Protesters demonstrate and burn Israeli flag two years after the Hamas attack on Israel.
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Parliament reviews EDI for research grants
Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.
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Universities without borders: In Gaza, studying “means we’re still alive”
Canadian professors build a humanitarian corridor through Israeli army’s blockade.
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COVID-19: updates for October 2021
October 27, 2021 More universities announce return-to-normal plans for winter semester According to a statement released on Oct. 21, McMaster University is planning to resume in-person classes in the winter term, with very limited exceptions. “Teams across campus are also...
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Hitting a nerve: Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera on their new book about women in leadership
The two former university presidents speak with an academic who studies higher education leadership and governance about improving opportunities for women.
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Unique garden bed at Dalhousie highlights need for biodiverse planting
Hügelkultur garden beds are made from natural materials in the immediate area, which prevents invasive species from spreading.
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Tallying the pandemic’s financial toll on universities
‘We are cautiously optimistic that we are entering the recovery phase,’ one comptroller says.
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Tracking aggressive behaviour of coyotes in Vancouver’s Stanley Park
A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.
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Meet the education academics reimagining how math is taught
Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.
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Understanding and preventing plagiarism
An international partnership has been established to better understand plagiarism among graduate students.
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Working in step with Indigenous peoples
The 2021 National Building Reconciliation Forum provided an opportunity to identify the work that remains to be done at universities.
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How instructional designers enabled the great shift to digital learning amid COVID-19
Particularly in the initial phase of the public health emergency, these unsung university staff did most of the heavy lifting to rework face-to-face courses.
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Universities, faculty gearing up in response to Afghan refugee crisis
Experts on campuses from coast to coast are needed to deal with the current emergency as well as future ones, Afghan-Canadian lawyer says.
