Features
Universities have started to think seriously about how to reach this historically large demographic – and maybe make money at the same time.
Don’t look now – and certainly don’t laugh – but Canada’s baby boomers are poised to descend on campuses, on lime green scooters if necessary.
Seriously, don’t laugh. This generation is used to getting what it wants, and these days it wants continuing education that’s fascinatin...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-boomers-are-coming/
Features
The authors of a new book challenge what they call the “frantic pace” of contemporary university life.
In their new book, The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy – fittingly, with a snail on the cover – Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber apply the principles of the “slow” movement to academia. Proudly proclaiming themselves “slow professors,” the ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-slow-professor/
News
April 30, 2020
Federal aid update: House passes CESB bill, CCPA crunches the numbers
The federal government just got a step closer to releasing $9 billion in emergency student aid. The Liberals’ social-development/news...
News
September 29, 2021
Thirty people sent to hospital after Fake Homecoming at Western
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Responsibilities May Include
When it comes to skills development, sometimes you have to make advantage before you can take advantage.
I’m sitting at my desk in the Research Institute at SickKids, putting the finishing touches on our skills and career development curriculum for the upcoming academic year. Our office has an open-door policy, so one of the institute’s PhD students pops in to talk about internships. They’re inte...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/creating-learning-opportunities/
The Black Hole
So you want to be a Grants Facilitator when you grow up…
Thoughts on Including Design as a Discipline within Interdisciplinarity
Not Linear
So, you want to be a Project Manager when you grow up…
So, you want to be a Program Evaluator when you grow ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/quarterly-summary-the-one-year-anniversary/
From PhD to Life
Lindy Ledohowski earned her PhD in English, focusing on contemporary Canadian literature and ethnic identity politics, at the University of Toronto, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa; she serves on the board of trustees for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, is a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-lindy-ledohowski/
Features
Almost a year after the stabbing at U of Waterloo, what has changed?
For many, the first indication that something was terribly wrong came by text.
The words “Are you ok?” popped up on the phone of Carla Fehr, the Wolfe chair in scientific and technological literacy in the philosophy department at the University of Waterloo, as sh...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/are-university-campuses-safer-spaces-for-2slgbtqia-folks/
Features
The pandemic has accelerated universities’ reliance on these critical online systems.
Somehow, last spring, teaching and learning staff at the University of Saskatchewan found the time to make a big decision: the university would migrate its learning management system, or LMS, from Blackboard ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/learning-management-systems-are-more-important-than-ever/
Features
How universities are responding to a country-wide shortage.
Twenty-one-year-old Stephanie Juhary has been doing everything she can to get into veterinary school. The fourth-year University of Guelph zoology student has volunteered at animal shelters since she was a teenager. In second year, she worked as a pathobiology departmen...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-quest-for-more-vets/
News
tom: 10px;">June 30, 2021
Important updates for incoming, returning international students and faculty
International students will be exempt from quarantine, the requirement to stay at a government-authorized accommodation and COVID-19 testing on their eig...
News
tom: 10px;">July 28, 2021
Brock students in residence will need to be vaccinated this fall
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In my opinion
Allan Rock, President of the University of Ottawa, decimates the argument that universities are “out of touch” and not producing graduates for “real jobs”.
Features
A work of fiction.
It was on Frank’s advice that I put on the hijab: Frank, who the first time I brought him home, I introduced to my mother by his full name, Francis. “Never trust a Catholic,” she said after he left. I’m glad I didn’t listen to her.
Frank and I were the two big kids who stood like pillar...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/how-i-became-a-muslim/
Features
On their way to graduation, PhD students become converts to the Church of Knowledge. But this secular church is in need of reformation.
The PhD is the most demanding program in the armory of university degrees. Doctoral students master a large body of knowledge, become expert in research methodologies (in the lab, the library, the studio, online and in the field), and pass comprehensive exams that test the breadth and depth of their...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-phd-conversion-experience/
Features
Two professors have developed a new teaching and learning philosophy that encourages more fun in higher education.
Fun and play are the earliest forms of education experienced by many kids. But as childhood progresses, these concepts are minimized. By the time students reach postsecondary education, fun and play don’t feel as welcome – and are largely limited to out-of-class exp...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-serious-benefits-of-fun/
The Black Hole
I almost entitled this post, When I grow up, I want to be “what all my friends are". Indeed, almost everyone around me, apart from a few sane friends whom I treasure dearly, currently holds the title of either MD or PhD or is in the process of acquiring one or both.
To many life scie...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/to-md-or-phd-that-is-the-question/
The Black Hole
Focus your efforts and don’t waste other people’s time.
The words stick in my head because of the fury they inspired when they were uttered. One of my closest academic mentors gave me advice about job hunting during my postdoctoral fellowship: “Don’t mess about with lots of possibilities. Just apply for what you want and then get it.” Sounds simple...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/the-academic-job-hunt-smaller-the-better/
Career Advice
Aliases aren’t just for the infamous. Bibilotech podcast host Rochelle Mazar offers advice on separating the personal and the professional online.
Welcome to BiblioTech – the podcast about emerging technologies for academics. Your host is Rochelle Mazar, an emerging technologies librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Every month you can listen in as Rochelle talks about what's new in technology and what academics should ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/episode-15-of-bibliotech-online-pseudonyms/
Career Advice
No matter the position you are applying for, your resume needs to summarize your work experiences in a clear, well-organized way.
A good resume is like a movie trailer. It gives you some sneak peaks, points to highs and lows, the main actors, the plot and most importantly, it leaves you wanting more. A good resume lets you organize, or reorganize, the pieces of your professional past in such a way that you can tell the reader ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/crafting-your-career-story/