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What are universities really for and why does it matter now?
A review of Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, University of Regina Press, 2026.
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The benefits of a ‘teaching hospital’ approach to education
How bringing real-world practice to campus helped produce highly sought after grad students with transferable skills.
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Navigating medical leave in academia
How one professor learned to prioritize her health over her academic career.
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Changing academic culture with a narrative CV
Replacing the traditional ‘listing everything’ approach is long overdue.
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Meet Kevin McCormick, Founding President of the Canadian Institute for Human Rights and Global Health
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Rethinking university scholarships to improve equity, diversity and inclusion among winners
The decisions that professors make around evaluation and review – as well as in teaching and scholarly inquiry – are a product of their own interpretation of “excellence.”
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COVID-19 is hurting PhD students’ mental health
Here are three ways Canadian universities can do more to help.
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A time for reflection
How do we make sense of what has happened, and how do we move forward towards a post-COVID world?
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It’s time to combat ageism in higher education
Fostering intergenerational education enriches us all, providing us with unique and diverse perspectives.
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Celebrate diversity, embrace equity and cultivate inclusion
Diversity is easy to define and measure, and thus manage, but equity and inclusion are not and require much greater effort.
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Health, design and planning: will COVID-19 lead to any changes in graduate education?
There is a critical gap between what is required to respond to the pandemic on the ground and what we’re being taught in grad school.
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Is online learning at a tipping point?
Maybe – but the key question for colleges and universities is not the balance between online and face-to-face teaching, but survival.
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We regret to inform you that your child has enrolled in a creative writing course
Once students get a fever for writing, sometimes you have to just let it run its course – and, in certain cases, it never goes away.
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I can’t breathe: feeling suffocated by the polite racism in Canada’s graduate schools
Only through our collective efforts to recruit and retain Black and racialized faculty members can we fully ensure the success of Black and racialized students in higher education.
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Rediscovering the truth-seeking mission of universities
The notion that universities exist, first and foremost, to discover and impart knowledge is no longer in vogue. That’s a tragedy.
