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Speculative Diction
BY MELONIE FULLICK | July 29 2016

A new Walrus column fits into a narrative that’s not really in line with the usual critiques of contract faculty hiring

feeds (just in time for “Back to School”!) and I’m irritated enough to write a response. It’s a type of commentary I’ve seen before, but since this one’s Canadian and in a relatively popular magazine, I decided to take it apart as an example. So beyond the weirdly uncomfortable figurativ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/feeding-crisis-beast-walrus-got-wrong-contract-faculty/
Media
BY TARA SIEBARTH | October 13 2023

Social media profile page in smartphone screen at work. Woman looking at feed, status update or post with mobile phone. Inefficient lazy worker avoiding job. Follow, like or send friend request.

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https://universityaffairs.ca/social-media-profile-page-in-smartphone-screen-at-work-woman-looking-at-feed-status-update-or-post-with-mobile-phone-inefficient-lazy-worker-avoiding-job-2/
Media
BY TARA SIEBARTH | October 13 2023

Social media profile page in smartphone screen at work. Woman looking at feed, status update or post with mobile phone. Inefficient lazy worker avoiding job. Follow, like or send friend request.

...
https://universityaffairs.ca/social-media-profile-page-in-smartphone-screen-at-work-woman-looking-at-feed-status-update-or-post-with-mobile-phone-inefficient-lazy-worker-avoiding-job-2-2/
News
BY NATALIE SAMSON | December 16 2020

The university’s Teacher’s Pet profile series puts the spotlight on professors’ furry friends.

feed. It quickly grew into Continue reading across all social media channels. “While the adorable pet photos are the certainly the hook, it’s often the cheeky write-ups about the pet t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/university-of-winnipegs-instagram-feed-has-gone-to-the-dogs/
Career Advice
BY ABBIE LITTLE & KATE WHALEN | June 29 2023

Sustainability projects like this at McMaster help to meet campus needs and provide valuable opportunities for students to put theory – and their passions – into practice.

It’s easy to expect that students who make it to university are on a straightforward path to success. However, finding steady, affordable access to healthy food is a challenge for many students, which can, among other things, impact their academic performance. In 2016, the national charity https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-a-community-fridge-is-feeding-students-in-more-ways-than-one/
Features
BY DIANE PETERS | March 11 2015

When students and administrators join resources to improve the food on campus, cafeteria is no longer a dirty word.

feed the school’s 23,000 students, faculty and staff (in particular the 5,000 first-year resident students on a mandatory meal plan) as well as for hospitality’s full-service catering business that does all events on campus and some around the city too. Mr. Kenny has a lot to say because he p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-campus-food-revolution/
Features
BY MARK WITTEN | October 09 2013

This is the story about a pig and a fish.

feed and promised to make salmon farming more profitable. At one year old, the largest specimen was 13 times bigger than the average Atlantic salmon. In 2010, Time magazine belatedly named it one of the best 50 inventions of that year, while Greenpeace activists nicknamed the transgenic won...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/science-and-politics-of-genetically-modified-animals/
News
BY KERRY BANKS | October 21 2021

A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.

feeding of coyotes, which causes them to lose their fear of humans. “We’ve had reports of folks going in with raw chicken and cat food, throwing that in the bushes and trying to draw the coyotes out so they can take photos,” she says. In late August, after a cluster of attacks in a 72-hour ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/tracking-aggressive-behaviour-of-coyotes-in-vancouvers-stanley-park/
News
BY KERRY BANKS | January 25 2022

New course is part of a three-year project examining whether emerging technology can help boost engagement in learning.

feeding instead on plankton. They have a long history as a commercially important food fish, as well as being harvested for shark’s fin soup, animal feed, and liver oil. However, overexploitation has reduced their populations to the point where they have disappeared entirely in some areas and are ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/western-prof-gets-students-to-swim-with-sharks-virtually/
Speculative Diction
BY MELONIE FULLICK | March 15 2013
feed was swamped first with posts about the newly elected Pope (which I expected). What I didn’t expect was that by the time evening rolled around, the Pope tweets were being eclipsed by reactions to Google’s decision to “kill” its RSS aggregation tool, https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/digital-moralism/
Multimedia
BY TARA SIEBARTH | April 14 2015
feed of them as well. They even have their own Continue reading! University of Calgary live falcon cam Not to be left out, the U of C falcon also has its own live video feed. See if you can catch a glimpse: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
https://universityaffairs.ca/multimedia-archives/video-round-up-animal-visitors-on-campus/
Features
BY PIERRE ZUNDEL + PATRICK DEANE | December 06 2010

For real change, we need to radically rethink the teaching and learning process.

feeding as many people as possible from the same basket of bread. But let’s be serious: none of us are miracle-workers, and when there are 5,000 minds to feed it is foolhardy to proceed as if there were five. We need to seek new and better ways to satisfy the hunger of our students. What is re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/its-time-to-transform-undergraduate-education/
Features
BY KEVIN KEE | April 09 2014

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

feed readers or feed aggregators that combine new information posted to specific websites into a single report. Rather than continually going to a website, the new information posted to that website is assembled in one place, like a newsletter compiled just for us. But we can go further. At a more s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/how-to-energize-scholarship-for-the-digital-age/
News
BY JULIA KENT | January 12 2009
feed on insects and berries – and appear to have a particular fondness for the sweet blueberry crops of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. There are approximately 12,000 acres of blueberries under cultivation in B.C., but when a mass of starlings come calling, they can quickly ruin a third of ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/where-kestrels-hold-sway-starlings-run-away/
News
BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | April 06 2009
feed the unwanted intruders nor harass them. But the university got into a bit of hot water when the environmental students’ newsletter ran an article on how to kill, skin and cook the errant bunnies, raising the ire of the SPCA and others. The newsletter editor, Heike Lettrari, emphasized the art...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/rabbit-redux/
News
BY NATALIE SAMSON | August 20 2014

Ryerson University’s Hamza Khan discusses his university’s student life digital strategy.

feedback. Before social media, we would only get a small sample response, maybe 200 to 300 students out of 3,000 to 4,000 who attended. Through social media we were able to get a larger sample size and were able to collect information that was much more dynamic. We were able to see specifically whic...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-to-reach-out-to-students-within-the-digital-realm/
News
BY KERRY BANKS | October 27 2020

Researchers are using drones, geolocation and other cutting-edge tools to follow hard-to-study animals in their natural habitats.

feeding behaviours. “With this technology we’re able to combine all the different data streams to get a complete picture of what is going on underwater. We’ve never been able to do that before. It’s quite thrilling,” says Sarah Fortune, a post-doc marine biologist, who designed the stud...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/high-tech-tracking-devices-shed-wildlifes-secrets/
News
BY KEATON HILLS | March 07 2024

Students whip up some crunchy munchies to show insects can be the ‘meat of the future.’

feed everyone and people will need to look to alternative protein sources. This is why she believes insects could be the “meat of the future”, as they serve as a more environmentally sustainable source of protein. “As they start taking the course and as they hear about the environmental as ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/great-ubc-bug-bake-off-showcases-sweet-treats-with-a-secret-ingredient/
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