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BY BECKY RYNOR | SEP 10 2019

The award-winning organization specializing in educational forays into the Arctic and Antarctic celebrates its 20th anniversary next year.

BY MATTHEW HALLIDAY | SEP 09 2019

Changes affect four equity-seeking groups: women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous people and visible minorities.

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | SEP 04 2019

Program also aims to diversify source countries for incoming international students.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | SEP 02 2019

A unique endowment at the University of Alberta funds rare book acquisitions – one for each of the institution’s honorary degree recipients.

BY MATTHEW HALLIDAY | AUG 27 2019

For visually impaired students, a lack of accessible learning materials “creates enormous barriers to success.”

BY NATALIE SAMSON | AUG 26 2019

Students will be trained in the creative and business sides of the toy and game industry.

BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | AUG 20 2019

The new network of regional centers of excellence comes on the heels of Canada’s first national accessibility law.

BY JESSICA NATALE WOOLLARD | AUG 19 2019

One program, Knowledge Makers, was recently recognized with the Alan Blizzard Award for excellence in teaching collaboration.

BY WENDY GLAUSER | AUG 13 2019

Boosting the number of Indigenous medical students, bolstering Indigenous curriculum among measures promised.

BY SHAUNA MCGINN | AUG 12 2019

“Typically in vet practice, the routine is to … check the boxes. I realized very quickly that that was not the way to go about it – it was about establishing a relationship first.”

BY ANGELYN FRANCIS | AUG 07 2019

After decades of grassroots work by Black scholars, a few universities have started offering Black Canadian studies programs. Will it be enough to start reversing what one professor calls Canada’s “Black brain drain”?

BY SALMA MAHGOUB | AUG 06 2019

Recent allegations of mismanagement have stained the reputations of several student unions across Canada.

BY KERRY BANKS | JUL 30 2019

Canadian researchers offered a sneak peek of some of the results at Congress in Vancouver.

BY TERRI COLES | JUL 23 2019

The university is the latest in Canada to rethink its stance on a name many find offensive.

BY ANQI SHEN | JUL 08 2019

The centre, hosted by Ryerson University, has an ambitious mandate that includes funding and evaluating new approaches to skills development.

BY ASHLEIGH VANHOUTEN | JUL 05 2019

“For every individual person who disagrees with what I do, I have three people who support me,” says the philosophy student and linebacker at the University of Manitoba.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | JUL 04 2019

Mona Nemer is creating a new youth advisory council of people aged 18 to 30 from a range of backgrounds.

BY DIANE PETERS | JUL 03 2019

Adaptations of the history scholar’s work take centre stage at the theatre festival.

BY KERRY BANKS | JUL 01 2019

“We’ve named more new dinosaurs in the last 20 years than in the previous 150,” says one researcher.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | JUN 25 2019

Library association releases statement clarifying this evolving role.

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