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Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.
As a university president, at the end of the day, you want to feel that you have made a difference and left your institution in a better place than you found it.
How could we provide an intense, cohort-based experiential learning course online? Don’t even try, some said, but we’re glad we did.
The goals of what we’re doing haven’t changed, but the how of what we’re doing certainly has.
The pandemic has accelerated universities’ reliance on these critical online systems.
7 international students on how they’re managing a year of online learning.
As an eventful 2020 comes to an end, here are the stories and issues that shaped the year in Canadian higher education. Stories that made 2020 Flight 752: a terrible start to the year While the pandemic has been uppermost in most people’s minds in 2020, the new year began with another unimaginable tragedy: the death of all 176 passengers and […]
It’s been quite the year. We’ve read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories, many of them related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we get ready to say goodbye to a memorable 2020, here are the stories that we’ll remember in 2021. The engineering gender gap: it’s more than a numbers game It’s been […]
A group of York University students got together to discuss what aspects of in-person classes they miss most while studying remotely.
New university presidents face unique challenges resulting from the current crisis. Four recently installed presidents look back at the first few months of their terms.
Administrators warn of tough sanctions for those breaking pandemic rules, while prioritizing a gentler sort of persuasion.
Chronic procrastination is on the rise, say experts, and appears to be prevalent among academics. We really should get around to doing something about it.
More dads are taking time to be with their families, but policies and supports still have a long way to go.
Foreign hackers are prying into COVID-19 research from around the world, and Canadian universities are not immune.
Researchers expect big things if and when dependable quantum computing becomes a reality, and they are eager to ensure that the country is well-positioned to play a meaningful part.
On their way to graduation, PhD students become converts to the Church of Knowledge. But this secular church is in need of reformation.
Now mostly admired for their aesthetics, university clock towers were originally erected to reinforce the concept of an orderly sense of learning and to help students get to class on time.
A vice-provost, student affairs, and an incoming first-year student sit down to talk about the student experience during a pandemic.
Public health communicators, they say, need to show humility, admit what they don’t know, and most importantly foster a two-way dialogue.
Students will again venture the globe one day as part of their education, and when they do universities must be ready to assist them when things don’t go as planned.