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Scholars push for a deeper look at how race and racism play out on university campuses.
In both public conversations and in marketing campaigns aimed at attracting new students and faculty, Canadian universities pride themselves on their inclusiveness and their commitment to diversity. They hold an idealized, idealistic place in the public imagination, and are thought of as places tha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/equitable-campuses-but-for-whom/
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“Parents felt very isolated. They didn’t fit in with the other students or feel welcomed.”
Five years ago, Kayla Madder unexpectedly became pregnant while finishing up a second undergraduate degree at the University of Saskatchewan. After taking eight months off following the birth of her son Amari, she started a master’s degree in animal and poultry science. Still nursing, she and anot...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/students-kids-press-universities-support/
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The job can be challenging, all-consuming and even isolating – but also rewarding.
A week after becoming head of the department of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, a position that would eventually lead him in 2016 to his current role as dean of the university’s Ontario Agricultural College, Rene Van Acker sent a short email to his own former department head, Murray...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/untangling-what-it-means-to-be-a-dean/
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More students are opting to live in theme-based residences.
Before she had even applied to Wilfrid Laurier University, Grace Jansen in de Wal heard that she could live in residence on a floor dedicated to history students. The students would be offered special programming from group study sessions to communal cooking, and even a field trip at the end of the ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/living-learning-communities-connect-like-minded-students-in-residence/
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Researchers from numerous disciplines have begun to investigate the heavy toll that loneliness takes on society.
They call it the silent killer, because its effects are not immediately visible and the condition is rarely discussed. Yet almost everyone has suffered from it at one time or another. It destroys people slowly but steadily. The silent killer is loneliness.
Although the idea that loneliness can ca...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/loneliness-the-silent-killer/
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The country’s various research and policy institutes “are highly adept at getting their messages heard in today’s crowded ideas marketplace,” says one expert.
As an Anishinaabe scholar who spent much of his childhood on a reserve in Central Ontario, Hayden King says he’s always found it frustrating to hear non-Indigenous experts, many of them from think tanks with ties to big business, weighing in publicly on issues that affect Canada’s First Nations....
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/think-tanks-fill-an-important-niche-within-canadas-public-policy-landscape/
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In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
Psychiatrists in Vancouver will soon begin a phase III clinical trial of MDMA, a hallucinogenic drug commonly known as ecstasy, for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The treatment consists of three monthly, eight-hour sessions under the influence of MDMA, interspersed by...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-canadian-revival-of-psychedelic-drug-research/
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The conversation about race in the profession is heating up. Here’s why.
A student enters their economics class. The professor organizes a group discussion, requiring the class to dive into both sides of an assigned debate topic. Today, students will make a case for the pros and cons of colonization.
Another student is asked by a classmate, once again, where they’re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/does-student-affairs-have-a-diversity-problem/
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What the history of pandemics can tell university leaders about the aftermath of COVID-19.
Multiple times pandemics have gripped the world, interrupting the social and economic networks of untold millions, and sometimes altering the societies they spread through, their cultures and their institutions. The university is one of those institutions that pandemics have affected in significant ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-tale-of-two-pandemics/
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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.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/what-well-remember-from-2020/
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Stories we’re thinking about at year’s end.
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 2021, here are the stories we’ll remember most.
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/what-well-remember-from-2021/
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Academics recognized for their ability to guide students through their studies talk about their approach to supervision.
In the academic world, certain professors aren’t just known for their research contributions, but also for their ability to shape graduate students’ paths. Well-versed in the subtle art of supervision, these academics guide their protégés toward excellence. Recently, University Affairs
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/spotlight-on-best-graduate-supervision-practices/
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The University of Manitoba is putting its money where its mouth is, so to speak, with the creation of a new Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, where scholars, students and storytellers from many disciplines and cultures will gather to research oral traditions and create new oral works.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/telling-stories/
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John Tarrant is in Canada to meet with university presidents
Common values, common structures and a common language – those are the benefits of membership in the Association of Commonwealth Universities, said the association’s secretary general, John Tarrant in a recent v...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/commonwealth-universities-secretary-general-promotes-common-valued/
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Ottawa symposium airs different views of the research role of Canadian university faculty from developing countries
Faculty members from the developing world who have emigrated to industrialized countries often play a pivotal part in international development. A recent symposium examined the role of Canadian diaspora faculty from a new angle: the specific strengths of these faculty members and their ability to le...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/diaspora-faculty-play-major-role-in-research-for-development/
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New technology developed at U de Sherbrooke will give cell phones FM-radio sound quality
It’s not just the exponential growth of the global cell phone market from 50,000 to five billion users in just 20 years that impresses Roch Lefebvre. It’s also the fact that technology developed by the small group of researchers he leads at
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/phone-calls-clear-as-a-bell/
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The Bologna process will have far-reaching effects on European higher education, but its impact on Canada is still unclear
As the Bologna Process shakes up higher education in Europe, observers here are trying to gauge what it means for Canada’s higher education system. The process may complicate student mobility between Canada and Europe and may also affect Canadian universities’ efforts to recruit international st...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/the-bologna-conundrum/
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Schools are ‘in denial,’ don’t recognize systemic racism on their campuses
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-not-facing-up-to-race-issues/
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Gilles Patry discute défis, priorités et nouveaux programmes.
Lors d’une visite récente à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Gilles Patry, président de la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation (FCI), s’est dit impressionné par l’impact visuel des subventions accordées à l’établissement, comme en témoigne la présence de grues un peu...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/le-president-de-la-fci-demande-un-investissement-de-750-millions-de-dollars/
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Copyright Board ends confusion over rates with an interim tariff, but digital environment and a new copyright bill could change the rules again
After months of sniping over Access Copyright’s bid to jack up photocopy licensing fees charged to Canadian universities and colleges, the Copyright B...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-to-pay-access-copyright-the-same-rates-for-now/
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