In My Opinion

University studies provide long-term life skills that employers value: critical thinking, creativity, adaptability and self-regulation.

With feelings of loneliness and isolation higher than ever, social connection is a key driver to support student mental health.

Why it’s time to reconsider our fee policies.

Let’s make sure these mediated formats really are about facilitating students’ learning and procedural knowledge construction.

The work of equity asks leaders to support movement toward justice, even when we cannot always foresee or predict the path forward.

It is difficult to see performance-based funding as anything but an ideologically based attempt to redesign the fundamental mission of our universities.

Redefining how university and institutional administrations see this vulnerable population of highly skilled workers is an important first step toward countering inequity and mending the gender gap in academia.

A physicist who now works in Canada recounts being arbitrarily fired from his teaching position in Tehran.

We must shift our conceptions of leadership beyond the confines of individualist, transactional and hierarchal notions toward more complex, relational and collectivist ways that recognize Indigenous nationhood and knowledges.

The higher education community must act as a guiding light as we return to more in-person activities.

How do we manage academic freedom, which should be unhindered, unrestricted and inviolable?

On a recent tour of the European country’s universities and research institutes, we met North American academics who were drawn to much more than the apple strudel, wiener schnitzel and fine chocolate.

Instead of relying on a ‘technological fix,’ we need to ask what drives students to cheat in the first place.