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In my opinion
BY ROHENE BOUAJRAM | August 24 2021

Universities need people, policies and protocols that take into account how to support the success of BIPOC students from an equity, not equality, perspective.

The few racialized staff members working in higher education, including myself, carry an unbalanced burden of embodying lived experience, creating space for others in their unlearning and learning journey of equity, diversity and inclusion, and delicately finding ways to critique the unintended outc...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/other-duties-as-assigned/
In my opinion
BY PHILIP BURGE | January 17 2023

A study found disability counsellors made substantial contributions to faculty members’ efforts to redesign their courses.

Forty years after the Continue reading, universities and colleges have made significant strides in accessible education for adult students with disabiliti...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-to-make-postsecondary-study-more-accessible-collaboration-between-instructors-and-disability-counsellors/
In my opinion
BY JULIE CAFLEY | October 06 2023

Academia needs to commit to providing equitable opportunities for women and those who identify as women with intersectional identities.

When Joël Dickinson became Mount Saint Vincent University’s (MSVU) 14th president and vice-chancellor in 2022 – and the university’s first openly gay president – she broke ground and made waves in the university sector. Dr. Dickinson recently told me that when she interviewed for the rol...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/smashing-the-queer-ceiling-leaders-show-the-way/
From the admin chair
BY SANNI YAYA | June 13 2023

Universities must work together to find new ways to collaborate and share knowledge using artificial intelligence.

Long before artificial intelligence (AI) became what we know it to be today, biochemist and science fiction icon Isaac Asimov established the three laws of robotics, the first being “a robot may not injure a human being”, followed by “A robot must obey the orders given by human beings.” Neve...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/from-the-admin-chair/harnessing-the-full-potential-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-in-higher-ed/
Career Advice
BY MEGAN EASTON | June 10 2022

For professor Fiona Rawle, compassionate teaching is the bedrock for student success.

One day not long ago during virtual office hours, Fiona Rawle found herself meeting the mother, father, grandfather and neighbour of one of the 900 students in her first-year biology class at University of Toronto Mississauga. “We’d finished discussing the assignment, so I suggested a conversati...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/where-kindness-rules/
Magazines
BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 26 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE

Duly recognized, at long last: A pioneering academic finally gets the accolades she so richly deserves

LETTERS

Planning is everything

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Emily Car...
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/issues/july-aug-2019/
Magazines
BY TARA SIEBARTH | July 02 2020

EDITOR'S NOTE

Before ... and after: Kudos to all involved for completing the winter term, but that was just step one

LETTERS

Not business as usual

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Malinda Smith ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/issues/july-aug2020/
Adventures in Academe
BY JESSICA RIDDELL | March 27 2018

Chaucer’s Arthurian story, The Wife of Bath’s Tale – with its governance model based on a roundtable – offers us a tantalizing clue on how to frame the issue.

Recently, I was asked to think about the contemporary trends, opportunities and challenges for learning and teaching in Canadian universities. The timing of the question coincided with a trip that took me to a national conference, a series of on-campus consultations, a writing retreat and a public l...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/adventures-in-academe/wish-go-higher-education/
Policy & Practice
BY CRESO SÁ | June 14 2021

As it was not tasked with offering recommendations, the report’s conclusions are understandably generic and understated.

The Council of Canadian Academies recently released the report Continue reading, which was commissioned by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Ca...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/policy-and-practice/what-does-the-recent-powering-discovery-report-actually-say-not-much/
The Happy Academic
BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | October 21 2022

Exercise your core skills to clear the hurdles of a growing workload.

Academic work has never been more diverse or more challenging. Today, academics are expected to:
  • Teach, research, and do service proficiently
  • Not only publish, but also to generate social impact, patents or commerciali...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/effective-successfull-happy-academic/why-were-radically-wrong-about-how-we-equip-ourselves-for-academic-work/
From PhD to Life
BY JENNIFER POLK | March 03 2015
Kara Santokie earned her PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. Formerly a professor, she is now director of Toronto Women's City Alliance, where she works towards the inclusion of women’s voices in municipal politics. Her work has led her to be featured in the Toronto S...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-kara-santokie/
Global Campus
BY JEN GONZALES & CHAD NUTTALL | September 17 2021

When student affairs professionals play an active role in supporting international students, broader goals are easier to achieve.

The future of internationalization is outside the classroom. For many leaders serving our institutions in supporting the student experience and institutional internationalization efforts, this is not a bold statement. For others, this is a newer conversation. Regardless, the creation of an exception...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/global-campus/the-future-of-internationalization-is-outside-the-classroom/
The Skills Agenda
BY LOLEEN BERDAHL | September 07 2022

As we start a new fall semester, instructors should keep in mind that today’s students come from a vast array of backgrounds and still have pandemic-related stress.

Effective teaching requires empathy for and an understanding of students: who they are, where they are starting from, and what they wish to accomplish. When we have a sense of our students’ interests and motivations, we can make small changes in our teaching practices that have large impacts on st...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/teach-the-students-you-have-not-the-student-you-were/
Features
BY HARRIET EISENKRAFT | October 12 2010

Les universités comptent parmi les institutions les plus libérales de la société. Pourtant, de nombreux universitaires se sentent victimes de discrimination raciale. Comment est-ce possible?

Au cours de sa carrière, d’étudiant à la maîtrise à membre de la Société royale du Canada, le sociologue Peter Li s’est fait régulièrement demander, vu la consonance étrangère de son nom de famille, s’il savait parler anglais. Patricia Monture, professeure titularisée deux fois ...

https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/racism-a-luniversite/
Features
BY BRIAN OWENS | June 14 2023

National security agencies are taking a renewed interest in universities and their research in the face of rising geopolitical concerns.

Canada is home to a great deal of world-class research, but the federal government and its security services are raising the alarm that the country’s combination of advanced technology, human talent and democratic society has made it an attractive target for foreign spies and their agents. “E...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/a-new-era-of-research-security/
News
BY ANQI SHEN | September 18 2018

An expert panel discussed shifting dynamics between the academy and industry in driving economic development in Canada.

Ten or 15 years before the recent artificial intelligence and machine learning research Continue reading in Montreal, the doors and windows of Canada’s “ivory tower” may have been more shuttered to industry, but that’s changed, said Martha Crago, vice-principal of research and in...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-curiosity-driven-science-interplays-with-innovation-in-canadas-economy/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | March 15 2021
Global News Continue reading The Canadian government expanded travel restrictions on Feb. 22 to include a mandatory thr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-march-15-2021/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | June 28 2021
Global News Continue reading University of Toronto’s Bioethics and Global Health ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-june-28-2021/
People on the Move
BY ANQI SHEN | November 03 2017
Continue reading has appointed Kanonhsyonne (Janice Hill) the inau...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-november-2017/
People on the Move
BY ANQI SHEN | March 06 2019
Bradyn Parisian is the inaugural Rawlinson Executive-in-Residence in Indigenous Entrepreneurship at the University ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-march-2019/
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