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BY ADRIANNA KEZAR | January 09 2013

The three-tiered faculty system is not working and must change.

As the article “Sessionals, up close” des...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/rethinking-faculty-roles-for-new-era/
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BY BONNIE LEE | February 13 2013

University is the right time and right place for undergraduates to adopt healthy practices to last them a lifetime.

Mental health of university students has been in the forefront of University Affairs discussions (Universities examine their role in students’ mental health; Universities step up mental health issues and in the blog https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/university-for-better-health-students/
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BY ALLAN ROCK | May 09 2013

Allan Rock, President of the University of Ottawa, decimates the argument that universities are “out of touch” and not producing graduates for “real jobs”.

President Rock gave the following speech on May 9, 2013, to the Canadian Club of Ottawa. Thank you so much for your warm we...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-skills-mismatch-and-the-myth-of-the-irrelevant-university-allan-rock/
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BY STEPHANIE HOBBIS | August 14 2013

Both foreign students – and their teachers – need support if the goals of an international campus are going to be met.

The following is in response to the opinion piece "Internationalizing the Canadian campus: ESL students and the erosion of higher education" by Norm Friesen and Patrick Keeney....
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/an-esl-students-perspective-on-internationalizing-the-canadian-campus/
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BY BENJAMIN MILLER | October 02 2013

Social entrepreneurship in a living laboratory.

University and college clubs are good places to meet people, gain valuable experiences, sometimes raise a bit of money for a good cause and have some fun. There’s no doubt that clubs are all of the above, but they’re also a great deal more. What is a club anyway? A few people decide one day t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/lets-take-student-clubs-seriously/
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BY MARTHA CRAGO | November 27 2013

A new report by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) affirms Canada’s historical strength in ocean science.

Oceans control weather and environment, and provide a wealth of goods and services upon which humanity depends. Canada is shaped by the ocean, with three major ocean basins and the longest coastline in the world. Oceans have a significant impact on our communities and our livelihood. So it is both i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/diving-in-to-canada-ocean-report/
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BY PETER IBBOTT, KRISTIN LOZANSKI + GRAHAM BROAD | February 26 2014

CAUT’s censure will harm the reputation and academic freedom of the very faculty CAUT purports to defend.

In May, the Canadian Association of University Teachers will seek a motion of censure against King’s University College in London, Ontario. CAUT claims that King’s administration violated Ken Luckhardt’s academic freedom by banning him from King’s. King’s University College Faculty Associa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/cauts-proposed-censure-of-kings-college-the-view-of-king-faculty/
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BY BRUCE A. HEYMAN | October 06 2015
Abraham Lincoln said the best way to predict your future is to create it. I have found this creative spirit ingrained in the people I meet every day across our great shared continent. Canadians and Americans believe that we, as individuals and as a community, have the ability and the obligation to l...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-fulbright-program-at-25/
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BY MICHAEL SINATRA | May 02 2017

The recently announced awards from the Trans-Atlantic Platform support projects across the disciplinary spectrum.

If you missed the recent news from the Continue reading, or T-AP – a little-known international research coalition – take another look. T-AP just announced the winners of the fourth round of the https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/big-data-research-awards-show-potential-international-collaboration/
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BY SARA BANNERMAN | August 24 2017

Copyright monitoring and enforcement would be an onerous and complex task for universities.

As the new school year approaches, Canadian universities are grappling with the Continue reading against York University. The court ruled that York could not rely on its fair deal...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/universities-cant-expected-police-copyright-infringement/
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BY ANDRE COSTOPOULOS | August 25 2017

We do them no favours if we help them stay in university when they are not functioning as students because of a mental health crisis.

Demand for mental health support is rapidly growing on Canadian campuses. In response, we have poured more and more resources into clinical support services. Despite the additional investment, both waiting times and student distress are increasing. In a further bid to improve services, many universi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/role-support-students-ready-students/
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BY PAUL AXELROD | November 01 2017

University leaders concerned about the employability of graduates should sustain academic and curricular diversity, including the liberal arts.

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BY ALAN SHEPARD | January 04 2018

A public scholars program at Concordia University will help doctoral candidates impart their research in compelling ways to audiences outside academe.

One of the most positive aspects of the digital communications revolution is that more and more scholars are now able to take their findings directly to the public. Voluntary programs that teach faculty how to popularize their work are proliferating. At Concordia University, we’re taking things...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/equipping-next-generation-communicate-public/
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BY ANITA JACK-DAVIES | May 02 2018

Research shows that the concept and practice of “other-mothering” can help Black students navigate the complex and often secretive world of academia.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the Continue reading. I have mixed feelings about my experiences in graduate school. As a Black, first-generation Ca...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/navigating-racism-black-graduate-students-need-support/
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BY JOHN-TYLER BINFET | March 21 2019

The B.A.R.K. program – Building Academic Retention through K9s – creates opportunities for students and community members to spend time with therapy dogs.

This article is republished from Continue reading under a Creative Commons license. Read the Continue reading. The interaction always p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/dog-therapy-what-ive-learned-overseeing-60-canine-campus-teams/
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BY JOHANNE MEDNICK MYLES | February 11 2020

Taking an online course may be convenient, but as a fulfilling learning experience it fails us in several ways.

I am sitting at a desk in one of the consultation rooms of the university writing centre talking with a student (let’s call her Jane) who is asking for help with an assignment she has been given in an online course. After shuffling some papers, she shows me a short paragraph, which is her brief re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-loneliness-of-the-online-learner/
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BY VICKI LOWES, AINSLEY GOLDMAN & COLIN MCMAHON | June 08 2020

We searched the literature and consulted our colleagues from across the country for innovative approaches and resources.

COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on higher education. Experiential learning (EL) programs – which allow students to gain experience, engage with the community, develop technical and interpersonal skills, and build career readiness and professional networks – have been particularly hard h...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-to-adapt-experiential-learning-activities-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
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BY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE | October 06 2020

With the right investments, we can create the foundation for the current generation of researchers to remain inspired and do their best work.

Canadian colleges and universities made a rapid and impressive shift last spring to move teaching online and ensure that students were able to complete their year. This fall, many institutions will offer hybrid models of online and in-person classes to keep students and faculty safe and healthy – ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/we-cant-risk-losing-a-cohort-of-young-scientists-due-to-the-pandemic/
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BY BRAD NELSON | February 16 2021

It’s crucial that we restructure our PhD programs from beginning to end to reflect the actual – as opposed to imagined – career outcomes of our students.

networking events, and mentoring opportunities with alumni. Again, what we are describing here is a professional outcomes-based approach for doctoral education and professional training that can help move doctoral education into its next and, hopefully, greatly expanded phase of development. As a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/we-need-an-outcomes-based-approach-to-doctoral-education/
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BY ANANYA BANERJEE | April 01 2021

Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.

Recently, I transitioned from being a professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health for the last four years to McGill University’s School of Global and Population Health. As a https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-the-pandemic-has-shown-social-justice-needs-to-be-central-to-public-health-education-in-canada/
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