As knowledge brokers, graduate professional development programs can build stronger bridges between students and the skills they need.
An integrated approach using campus and community partnerships is key to cultivating skills, building networks and exploring pathways.
Career education
Career education is a key component of graduate student support. These types of programs provide students with 1:1 guidance on their career goals and other academic applications. Career educatio...Talent in the 21st century is as much about diplomacy, trade and prosperity as it is about education and discovery.
New technologies are changing the way schools get the message out when a crisis erupts on campus. But the most valuable tool in the communications toolkit is still a well-tested plan
As Canada and the U.S. experience a generational turnover of university presidents, the tough task of filling the executive office gets even tougher
Canada’s ‘professors of privacy’ are leaders in a global effort to understand the ways governments and corporations are using surveillance methods on average citizens – and to let the public know
Take a Canadian company with a problem, add the expertise of a graduate student, and the result is a solved business problem and a grad with shop-floor experience. That is the simple math behind the fabulously successful MITACS.
Whether you see them as a catalyst for change or mostly as hype, MOOCs are fundamentally different from other forays into open online learning.
How the new credo for community-engaged research is making a difference both in communities and at universities.
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Education in the 21st century must be built on the premise of human-machine entanglement.
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Grad students are looking for university support to help prepare them for careers outside the professoriate.
Kathryn Muller, Jonathan Turner and Erin Clow are three PhD holders who use the skills they honed in their doctoral studies on a daily basis at a university.
They just don’t work as professors.
Dr. Muller oversees a team of professional fundraisers at McGill University. Dr. Turner is a c...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/whats-up-with-alt-ac-careers/
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Graduate students are trying out Three Minute Thesis-type competitions for the soft skills, public connection – and just a tiny bit of fame.
If you think it’s hard to get a laugh when making a quip related to optometry, then you probably haven’t seen University of Waterloo PhD candidate Gah-Jone Won’ presentation that won him first place in this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition in early June.
The moment hits in the first...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/contests-to-communicate-research-gain-in-popularity/
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An increasing number of people aren’t getting enough sleep, and researchers are trying to figure out how to help.
In a series of rooms in a bunker-like facility at the University of British Columbia, pajama-clad people lie in beds with wires and electrodes affixed to their heads and bodies. As these patients, all of whom are here because they have chronic sleep problems, drift into dreamland, the electrodes rec...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/science-battling-scourge-sleeplessness/
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These programs offer international students, and their host families in Canada, the chance for a real cultural exchange.
When Kari and Scott Warner became homestay hosts, their daughter was an infant and they were expecting their second child, a son. After hearing about the Continue reading at Vancouver Island University from a neighbour on their street, they applied...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/university-homestay-programs-strive-to-offer-more-than-room-and-board/
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The pandemic has accelerated universities’ reliance on these critical online systems.
Somehow, last spring, teaching and learning staff at the University of Saskatchewan found the time to make a big decision: the university would migrate its learning management system, or LMS, from Blackboard ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/learning-management-systems-are-more-important-than-ever/
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Renewed international interest in our closest celestial neighbour is giving academics a chance to build out Canada’s space exploration expertise.
The moon is shaping up to be Canada’s next frontier for interdisciplinary study. Backed by substantial government funding, researchers across the country are coming together to solve the challenges of working on the lunar surface.
It’s all part of a new “moon r...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/aiming-for-the-moon/
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