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In my opinion
BY CANDACE BRUNETTE-DEBASSIGE | January 11 2022

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.

Over the past five years, policies about Indigenizing and decolonizing the academy have flooded our newsfeeds. Just in 2021, an advisory committee on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization established by the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/questioning-colonialism-in-university-administration/
In my opinion
BY BENJAMIN MAIANGWA, ANTONY PUDDEPHATT & OLUWATOMI AKINYEDE | September 12 2023

The main problem is the government’s failure to subsidize international students.

The Black Hole
BY SARAH RUEDIGER | February 16 2023

Clear metrics are needed to evaluate the success of initiatives to remove inequities in the research enterprise.

In recent years, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) have become buzzwords in the world of research, with funding agencies and institutions making efforts to promote these core values. While there has been growing awareness of the importance of EDI in research, we still have a long way to go. The ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/breaking-edi-barriers-in-science/
Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | October 03 2018

Clashes over the limits of free speech continue to divide students and faculty.

Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | February 24 2021

Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.

What if you could make a wish list for a better planet? Maybe you’d include eradicating poverty, stopping climate change in its tracks, ridding the oceans of plastics instead of marine life, and creating social systems where each person has an equally important place ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/embracing-development-sustainably/
Features
BY LESLEY EVANS OGDEN | January 03 2024

Things are progressing, but there is still work to be done.

While a postdoctoral fellow in quantum physics at the University of Toronto, Anaelle Hertz wanted to attend the Continue reading (CEWQO), a conference held in July 2023 in Milan, Italy. The youngest of her two children, then s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/conference-childcare-for-scientists-is-starting-to-show-signs-of-improvement/
News
BY UA/AU | June 30 2020

June 29, 2020

Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund deadline extended

On May 15, the federal government created the Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund (CRCEF) as part of a suite of temporary financial aid programs to help employers and workers through financial ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-june-2020/
News
BY MAXIME BILODEAU | April 21 2021

By proposing an update to traditional criteria for evaluating applications, the declaration asks the research community to rethink its approach.

The journal impact factor is a commonly used metric in the research community, maybe excessively so. At least that’s what 2,185 organizations acknowledged when they endorsed the Continue reading (DORA), which the American Socie...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/the-san-francisco-declaration-on-research-assessment-is-gaining-ground-in-canada/
News
BY TAYO BERO | December 02 2021

Universities and colleges across Canada now have a new set of guidelines to address racism and promote Black inclusion at their institutions.

Nearly 50 postsecondary institutions signed on to the Continue reading at a virtual ceremony last month. The document, which was written by a drafting sub...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/scarborough-charter-signals-national-effort-to-deal-with-anti-blackness-on-campus/
News
BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | July 24 2023

One Child Every Child brings together researchers from diverse disciplines, organizations and countries to examine the biological and social determinants of health affecting the well-being of children.

In 2020, the University of Calgary became the first university in Canada to make child health and wellness an institution-wide research priority. The Continue reading initiative brings together numerous researc...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/new-research-initiative-to-advance-child-health-knowledge-in-canada/
People on the Move
BY ANQI SHEN | June 14 2017
Cynthia Murphy has been named director of Continue reading’s International C...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/new-announcements-june-2017/
People on the Move
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | February 01 2021
Music scholar Ellie Hisama has been named dean of the University of Toronto’s faculty of music. Dr. Hisama begins her ne...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-february-2021/
People on the Move
BY HANNAH LIDDLE | July 27 2022
On June 6, Brad Clarke became Brock University’s associate vice-president, students. In his new role, he is responsib...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-july-2022/
People on the Move
BY HANNAH LIDDLE | November 02 2022
Kevin Hewitt, former chair of the Dalhousie University senate, has been named as the university’s first associate dean, equity and inclusion in the faculty of science. https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-november-2022/
Global Campus
BY ANA CHIARELLI & EUNJUNG RIAUKA | November 17 2022

The pandemic has highlighted opportunities to use the tool to build valuable intercultural competencies.

In the education-abroad field, the COVID-19 pandemic made crystal clear the opportunities that technology and new partnership connections bring to the table, especially when speaking about virtual exchanges (VE). Whereas conventional online learning focuses on the information transfer through video ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/global-campus/virtual-exchanges-provide-accessible-and-equitable-internationalization-alternatives/
Features
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | October 05 2016

Where are the women?

Canada’s liberal government was officially sworn in last year on a bright and unseasonably warm November day. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from Rideau Hall to present his new cabinet to the cheering crowd that had gathered on the grounds of the Governor General’s residence. With 15 men ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/women-still-struggle-make-top-leadership-posts-academe/
News
BY SHAUNA MCGINN | April 17 2023

Canada’s professoriate has become more diverse in terms of age, gender and race, but new data suggests those gains aren’t reaching the highest ranks.

A new Continue reading on university teaching staff reveals an aging professoriate and lagging gender parity in the upper echelons, offering a glimpse at the challenges ahead for staffing in...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/statcan-report-reveals-impending-shifts-at-highest-levels-of-professoriate/
In my opinion
BY CHARLENE LEWIS-SUTHERLAND & SANIA HAMEED | November 24 2021

A recent CACUSS panel shed light on the realities that many racialized staff face.

For the first time in its 50-year history, the Canadian Association for College and University Student Services (CACUSS) held a plenary panel, titled "Being Racialized and Indigenous in Student Affairs: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” which centred the experiences of colleagues who are Indig...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/reflections-on-being-racialized-and-indigenous-in-student-affairs/
In my opinion
BY KLODIANA KOLOMITRO & JOHN PIERCE | August 21 2023

Two former vice provosts of teaching and learning reflect on how they incorporated I-EDIAA at their institution.

It would come as no surprise to anyone who works in a university that academic culture can often create sites of resistance to change. However, there are moments when change happens, either as a progressive part of institutional evolutions or as disruptive events which force revolutions. The challen...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/leadership-and-the-search-for-convergence/
Global Campus
BY MIYUKI ARAI & MICHAELA PETERS | January 14 2022

A team of students from diverse cultures, abilities, fields of study and experiences is helping the university to advance its intercultural development goals.

Peer-supported intercultural development is transforming the way students approach global learning at Saint Mary’s University. An Innovation Fund program funded by the Government of Canada’s Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program enabled students to practise active citizenship in their everyday...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/global-campus/intercultural-learning-for-students-by-students-a-saint-marys-experience/
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