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BY TARA SIEBARTH | November 26 2018

UA web editor Tara Siebarth tested out the tongue-loosening properties of improv games for science communicators at the Canadian Science Policy Conference.

It’s not often that a conference session receives feedback from the room next door. “Apparently, we are being too loud,” said Nikki Berreth to her audience at the Canadian Science Policy Conference. “I guess we are having too much fun.” The noise complaint was warranted: everyone in Ms....
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/i-went-to-a-workshop-on-improv-for-scientists-and-you-should-too/
Features
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | January 11 2010

Why universities need to prepare doctoral students for careers outside academe

At 34 years old, Marianne Stanford has spent almost half her life in university, pursuing her dream of becoming a professor. “I love academic research and teaching,” she says. “There isn’t really a career path that interests me as much as what I have done.” But, as her second stint as a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/give-us-the-dirt-on-jobs/
Features
BY DIANE PETERS | October 10 2012

As a new law professor, she could have made life easier for herself when confronted with sexism at the university. But then, she wouldn’t be Constance Backhouse.

“Don’t you bully me,” cried Mary Ann Burton from both the witness box during her rape trial in 1907 and also from the first line of chapter two of Constance Backhouse’s award-winning 2008 book https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/courting-conflict/
Features
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | March 19 2014

York U prof says to focus on quality, not expansion, in higher ed reform.

Canadian universities have gone through an unprecedented expansion over the past 15 years. In Ontario, full-time undergraduate enrolment grew by a whopping 75 percent from 1998 to 2008; graduate enrolment was up too, by 60 percent at the master’s level and 70 percent at the PhD level. Federal spen...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/a-conversation-with-george-fallis/
Features
BY ANNE KROOK | June 01 2015

How do we turn the doctoral student’s significant skills into a career outside academia?

I offer a four-hour session at U.S. and Canadian universities in which I teach humanities PhD students how to look for non-academic jobs. Students choosing to attend it typically come from one of two cohorts: second- and third-year students, or students in their fifth year and later. The difference ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/mobilizing-the-humanities-for-diverse-careers/
Features
BY JENNY GREEN | January 13 2016

University of Saskatchewan is the latest institution to boast a building designed by the world-renowned architect.

When architect douglas cardinal first unveiled his plans for the University of Saskatchewan’s new aboriginal student centre, in May 2012, the elders responded with ... silence. Mr. Cardinal and his Saskatoon partner, architect Paul Blaser, thought their plan was fabulous: a sloping courtyard t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/douglas-cardinal-leaves-his-mark/
Features
BY DIANE PETERS | February 09 2016

MFA programs in creative writing are nurturing Canada’s next generation of authors.

Jason Murray loves writing. And school. After graduating with a degree in journalism,...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/mastering-the-fine-art-of-writing/
Features
BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | June 22 2016

Canada’s science minister says she understands the research community and wants to hear its concerns.

“Please, call me Kirsty,” says the affable federal Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan as we sit down in her Ottawa office. Dr. Duncan, who holds a PhD in geography from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor of geography and anthropology from the University of Toronto, was first elected the M...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/science-minister-kirsty-duncan-goes-bat-scientists/
Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | February 08 2017

University students are increasingly seeking stints volunteering in developing countries. Now, there’s a move to make these trips more ethical and meaningful to both students and their hosts.

She hadn’t even bought her plane ticket and already Carmon Co was getting a taste of the exciting trip she’d started to organize last fall. She and two other second-year veterinary students at the University of Guelph had been emailing a veterinarian working at Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Nationa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/making-volunteering-abroad-ethical-experience/
Features
BY ANONYMOUS | August 02 2017

If you work with more than six people, it’s likely you work with someone who has experienced, will experience, or is currently experiencing fertility issues.

I was recently invited to review a colleague’s file for promotion. In her file, a referee applauded the candidate’s ability to balance her work commitments with her constant support of her children. I would like to say that I was pleased to see her ability to balance work and family receive reco...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/fate-and-infertility/
Features
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | March 03 2021

There aren’t enough midwives in Canada to meet the growing demand for their services. But getting more midwives in the workforce will take a lot more than just adding seats to the few midwifery programs that exist.

At some point in a kid’s life, the question will come up: where do babies come from? While the details of pregnancy and delivery are a mystery to most children – and even to some adults – that wasn’t the case for Samihah Patel. Ms. Patel grew up hearing stories ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/call-the-midwife-get-on-a-waitlist/
Features
BY ÉMILE BÉRUBÉ-LUPIEN & PASCALE CASTONGUAY | October 13 2021

When it comes to universities offering French-language programs outside Quebec, Laurentian’s problems are just the tip of the iceberg.

By last spring, Laurentian University’s financial difficulties were an open secret in the Sudbury community. Even so, on April 12, theatre student Maxime Cayouette was preparing for an upcoming exam, like most students at that time of year, when he learned that his pr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/beneath-the-surface/
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BY DIANE PETERS | October 19 2021

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is inspiring other universities to prioritize social accountability, advocate for health-policy change, and serve communities in need.

In a few months, Joseph Boyle will finish his studies at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) on his way to becoming the first doctor in his immediate family. “I don’t think I’d be in med school if it weren’t for NOSM,” Mr. Boyle says. For him, be...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/meet-the-new-med-schools/
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BY TARA SIEBARTH | June 01 2023

The president and chief executive officer prepares to close the book on 14 years of advocacy for Canadian universities.

After 14 years as president and chief executive officer of Universities Canada (publisher of University Affairs), Paul Davidson has decided to step down from the role. His last day will be June 30, 2023. While at the helm of the membership organization, Mr. Davidson has shepherded many file...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/exit-interview-with-paul-davidson/
News
BY TARA SIEBARTH | May 16 2017

A Q&A with Peter Cornish of Memorial University on the Stepped Care model, which he hopes will get everyone on campus to be part of the support system for those dealing with mental health issues.

In 2014, Peter Cornish helped the Student Wellness and Counselling Centre at Memorial University launch the https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/stepped-approach-can-help-ease-access-mental-health-care-campus/
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BY ANQI SHEN | August 04 2017

Legislation in three provinces mandates that postsecondary institutions adopt stand-alone sexual violence policies starting this year.

When Jen Sugar was hired as director of student affairs at Carleton University in August 2016, staff there had been developing a sexual violence policy for about a year, spurred by legislation mandating such a policy at all Ontario universities and colleges. Earlier that summer, as part of Bill 132,...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-across-canada-implement-sexual-violence-policies/
News
BY TERRI COLES | January 28 2021

At the event, teams of Manitoba postsecondary students developed solutions to an issue now familiar to all in Canada’s university sector: how to improve online learning.

Manitoba postsecondary institutions joined forces with the province’s tech incubator to host a virtual hackathon last November that tackled an issue now familiar to students from across the country: remote learning. Participants in the hackathon, which took place over November 20 to 22, designe...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/virtual-hackathon-tackles-the-challenges-of-remote-learning/
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BY BECKY RYNOR | June 17 2022

The inaugural class of 23 students completed the joint program in Canadian common law and Indigenous legal orders this spring.

Amanda Vick figures her legal studies unofficially began when she was “just a tyke.” She may have been in the background with a colouring book, but as the granddaughter and niece of hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan Wet'suwet'en First Nation in northwestern British Columbia, she vividly recall...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/first-grads-of-unique-uvic-program-will-help-make-indigenous-law-visible/
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BY ERIKA THORKELSON | September 02 2022

Researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities.

Winnipeg-based researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities. A leisure scholar and assistant professor in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management at the University of Manit...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/u-of-manitoba-professor-is-helping-kids-explore-their-gender-identity/
Media Scan
BY ANQI SHEN | February 08 2017
Globe and Mail Continue reading A decade after he helped to disc...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-feb-8-2017/
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