Features
BY DANIEL DROLET | February 09 2009
Atlantic universities learn a lot about wooing applicants as their local supply of 18 to 24-year-olds starts to dry up. Are there lessons here for other regions?
Robyn Zajac knew she wanted to study outside her native Manitoba, so she applied to universities in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.
Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, was near the bottom of her list;...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/suiting-the-new-recruits/
Features
BY DANIEL DROLET | February 12 2014
Switching disciplines in academia is not an easy choice, but those who’ve done it say the move can broaden your outlook and enrich your life.
Spend a little time Googling and you can quickly come up with names of famous people who switched careers in mid-stream. Julia Child, for example, worked in intelligence for the U.S. government before transitioning to cookbook author and television chef. Harrison Ford was a carpenter before he made ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/meet-5-academics-who-have-switched-disciplines-mid-career/
News
BY BECKY RYNOR | June 27 2018
To build empathy and find solutions, civic leaders and service providers were asked to navigate the web of local agencies.
If you are 17-year-old Rachelle, you have already had a tough life. Your mom was a drug addict. You were bounced between various family members and an array of foster homes. Some foster parents were nice, Rachelle recalled. “Some would allow us to have family dinners with them. Some locked the fri...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/u-of-ottawa-hosts-poverty-challenge-to-build-empathy-seek-solutions/
In my opinion
BY JAMES SOUTHWORTH | February 13 2018
Op-ed articles help students to learn the important skills of engaging and persuading a reader.
There’s something rather futile about argumentative research papers that focus on moral, political and social issues. For all their merits in developing students’ writing, research and critical thinking skills, these papers usually fail. That is, they fail in their purpose of persuading a reader...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/value-op-ed/
In my opinion
BY VESELIN JUNGIC | April 21 2020
My underlying message to my students was to keep their educational goals as an anchor during these unexpected times.
Despite the changes to our everyday lives over the past several weeks, I am convinced that as a teacher it is my role and responsibility to keep my students accountable to the same high academic standards and ethical code of conduct as before COVID-19 upended our community.
Like other organizatio...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/despite-the-pandemic-the-rules-of-academic-integrity-still-apply/