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Diversity strengthens discovery
What Nobel Laureates reveal about diversity, discovery and societal impact.
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No one prepares us for the trauma of coming home from fieldwork
Readying novice field researchers to cope with potential feelings of dislocation on their return should be part of their training toolkit too.
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Understanding university ownership of IP in foreign research collaborations
Imposing broad rules on universities around ownership of intellectual property in complex research collaborations is not the answer.
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We cannot barricade ourselves within the ivory tower
A professor reflects on the recent attack on two students and a professor at the University of Waterloo.
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Meet Kevin McCormick, Founding President of the Canadian Institute for Human Rights and Global Health
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Dog therapy: what I’ve learned overseeing 60 canine campus teams
The B.A.R.K. program – Building Academic Retention through K9s – creates opportunities for students and community members to spend time with therapy dogs.
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We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review
By changing the way we discuss scholarly work, we will not only improve scholarship but also reduce the unnecessary hostility rampant in academia.
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We need to improve teachers’ mental health literacy
Faculties of education have a role to play in ensuring that teachers can identify and respond to students’ mental health challenges.
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Enunciating the fundamental principles of a university
The Magna Charta Universitatum is being used across the world to shape, guide and defend university values.
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New ranking to look at universities’ contributions to sustainable development
Linking universities to the UN’s sustainable development goals will draw greater scrutiny to higher education, for better or worse.
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Even an academic hoax needs ethics approval
The authors of the fake “grievance studies” papers would have made a stronger point if they’d gone through an institutional review board.
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My experience as a ‘dumb’ student
Looking around, it seemed obvious to me that I was the only one who didn’t understand what was going on.
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Defining science and scientific researchers: it’s a whole new world
A new UNESCO recommendation sets guidelines regarding the working conditions of researchers and the environment required for science to be conducted in an ethical manner.
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Taking control of your institution’s strategic planning
Instead of relying on outside consultants, the leadership at Université de Sherbrooke took matters into their own hands.
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UOF: a one-year-old institution that is already resilient
The Université de l’Ontario français is the culmination of a long struggle on the part of the province’s francophone community.
