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BY LOLEEN BERDAHL | July 30 2021

In the final stages of syllabus design, don’t forget to include your course policies.

As a university student in the mid-1990s, I loved the television show E.R. Among the many things from that show that has stuck with me over the years is a recurring phrase: “Continue reading.” Season after season (and the show had many s...
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News
BY DAISY LE CORRE | May 09 2024

Five academics draw on their own experiences to paint a portrait of the ups and downs that await new professors.

Andréanne Gagné, Jo Anni Joncas, Geneviève Brisson, Claire Moreau, and Myriam Villeneuve-Lapointe are all professors from Université de Sherbrooke. Together, they co-authored a book chronicling the challenges university professors face as they embark on their academic careers. But their brainchi...
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Features
BY DANIEL MCCABE | August 05 2008

They’re still a rare breed but the flock is growing. Should it be?

Thanks to the Internet, it’s continually a new world in terms of communications, and Alastair Summerlee is the first to admit that he doesn’t always quite get it. “I’m perplexed by the incredible popularity of things like YouTube and Facebook,” says the president of the University of Gu...
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Features
BY YVES LUSIGNAN | December 01 2008

Practical advice from the co-author of a new book

No matter what the topic, whether it’s new killer bacteria, fibre-optic networks or street-gang syndrome, academics are fielding more and more media calls seeking their expertise. Fundamentally that may be a good thing, but your average, detail-oriented researcher who is asked to summarize decades...
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Features
BY PASCAL ZAMPRELLI | December 01 2008

The life of an independent scholar, without the safety net of a university, brings with it trepidation, financial challenges and, for some, exhilarating freedom. Meet four who’ve taken the ride

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Features
BY TREENA HEIN | September 08 2009

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

September 11, 2001 was a tipping point in the balance between individual privacy and security. Fearful citizens seemed prepared to be watched more closely if it meant feeling more secure. Now, eight years later, the public doesn’t really have an understanding of the many ways and the degree to whi...
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Features
BY SUSAN PETERS | February 07 2011

A few people, perhaps a thousand a year, leave their body to medical science at Canadian universities. This is their story.

Taking the key from a hook beside the door, the professor unlocks each of three freezers standing in a row along the wall of the lab. “We don’t have any heads,” says Cari Whyne brusquely. The freezers hold bins labelled with the names of graduate students using these bone samples. It also hold...
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Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | March 07 2011

If you haven’t visited the student residences on campus for awhile, you might be in for a surprise.

Single rooms. double beds. Weekly cleaning service. Your own bathroom, or close to it. Sparkling laundry facilities that text-message you when your wash is done. Customized dining-hall meals you actually write home about – via your Wi-Fi connection. Or if you choose to cook for yourself, it’s on...
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Features
BY DIANE PETERS | September 12 2011

A group of female academics, activists and litigators have joined together to literally rewrite Charter equality cases from a feminist perspective.

On the evening of March 6, 2008, a group of mostly female lawyers and law students arrived at the downtown Toronto campus of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School for the official launch of the Women’s Court of Canada. Columnist Heather Mallick hosted the event, which was followed by a w...
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Features
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | October 11 2011

Canadian faculty are welcomed in many developing countries for their skill in introducing student-centred learning.

Sometime in the coming months, the first PhD candidates in nursing at Cuba’s Higher Institute of Medical Sciences will defend their dissertations and – fingers crossed – graduate, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of that country’s medical education. On that day, and more than...
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Features
BY PETER RICKETTS | January 09 2012

Ontario’s system isn’t broken, just stressed. Before we try more radical fixes, why not encourage a robust college-university transfer system?

Every so often, Canada goes through a period of time when it is in vogue to criticize universities and the role they play in society. We seem to be in one of those cycles right now, where hardly a week goes by without some article in the media commenting negatively on how universities are managing r...
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Features
BY HARRIET EISENKRAFT | June 11 2012

Romantic partners who are employed at universities in different cities confront many challenges in making their relationships work.

For more than two decades, Claire Carlin and Bruce Wonder have been making the four-hour trek by ferry and car between Victoria, B.C. and the state of Washington, alone or together, dozens of times a year. The marathons began less than a year after they met at Western Washington University in Bel...
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Features
BY TIM JOHNSON | January 09 2013

Driven by diverse factors, retiring academics are leaving their mark in varied – and often surprising – ways.

Seven years ago, on the very first day of his retirement, Ed Ishiguro got up, ate breakfast, finished his morning routine and then did what he’s done for more than half a century – he went to work on campus. Forced by British Columbia law to retire at the age of 65, Dr. Ishiguro, a professor eme...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/leaving-a-legacy/
Features
BY JOEY FITZPATRICK | May 31 2013

How the new credo for community-engaged research is making a difference both in communities and at universities.

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Features
BY KEVIN KEE | April 09 2014

A personal essay from Kevin Kee, associate vice-president, research, at Brock University.

The last time Brock University played host to what was then the Learned Societies Congress, Kevin Kee was a nervous PhD student presenting his first paper. This May, when the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences returns to Brock for its 83rd iteration, Dr. Kee will be one of...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/how-to-energize-scholarship-for-the-digital-age/
Features
BY VIVIAN SMITH | November 05 2014

It aims to engage students with a mix of online lectures and in-class components.

Andrea Edginton was tepid about teaching when her academic career began six years ago. She had gained scant lecture experience in her PhD program and was annoyed by students who showed little motivation in class. On joining the University of Waterloo’s school of pharmacy, where 40 percent of h...
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Features
BY NATALIE SAMSON | July 06 2016

A Q&A with professor Brenna Clarke Gray.

Email newsletters are by no means a new frontier in publishing. You probably subscribe to your fair share already, whether it’s a daily note from your school or a weekly update from your favourite media outlet. (Speaking of which, have you https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/personal-newsletters-can-boon-academic-life-writing/
Features
BY MICHAEL ATKINSON & JENNIFER ROBERTSON | April 18 2017

Lessons learned from the presidential transition committee at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2015, the University of Saskatchewan undertook an extensive Continue reading to welcome Peter Stoicheff to the role. As two individuals closely linked to this process, here are some lessons we learned that may be of value to colleagues undertaking a similar ...
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