Media Scan
feed-the-planet-by-growing-fish-using-safer-methods-486635/">RESEARCH THAT MATTERS: East Coast universities hoping to feed the planet by growing fish using safer methods
Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life, the old saying goes.
The Huffington Post
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-aug-19-2020/
In my opinion
Athletics connect universities with their communities and fosters healthier, better educated citizens.
Todd Pettigrew in his recent opinion article in University Affairs argues that universities should get rid of varsity sport. As a former varsity athlete and current faculty member who remains engaged in and supportive of sport at universities, ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/of-course-we-need-varsity-sport/
In my opinion
A university communications and marketing director tries to cut through the bafflegab.
feed itself with ever-escalating demand for its products at ever-escalating costs to the taxpayer. And so it came to be.
Although far less ominous, a similar trend seems to be at work across the digital analytics sector. According to forecasts from market research firm IDC, sales of big data and ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/growing-digital-industrial-complex/
Margin Notes
The current situation is not a “crisis,” but also not sustainable.
feed a certain inertia to change.
So what comes next? Ray Ivany, president of Acadia University, caught the mood by saying at the end, “You could declare the last several days a success on a number of dimensions, simply by drawing the university community together around this theme at this time...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/aucc-workshop-puts-the-spotlight-on-undergraduate-education/
The Black Hole
feed directly into faculty positions where productive research projects can be seen through to completion. Since there are already limited number of investigator-track faculty positions available at academic research institutes, universities should begin revising their graduate programs to better re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/a-framework-for-changing-the-current-research-economy/
The Black Hole
Guest blogger Jan Klimas asks, why can’t rejection letters be a bit more helpful with their feedback?
feedback: what format to follow, which rules to abandon; what are the grave dangers of inflation and how to deal with the fear of criticism? The information is available, but the courage seems lacking - courage to break the rules and be specific.
Feedback
Rejection is feedback...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/fifty-shades-of-rejection/
Speculative Diction
feed, I learned that the Guardian's Higher Education Network in the U.K. has been Continue reading f...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/mental-health-academe-lets-get-stories-straight/
Career Advice
How can universities make applicants feel safe enough to be themselves online?
feed’s daily scroll. We are all now, at least a little, public.
More worrying is what social media snooping represents. If Tribble is combing through your Tweets and Instagram pictures looking for a reason not to hire you, he’s already waving the red flag of a toxic workplace. The snooping is...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/lock-your-twitter-account-the-hiring-committee-is-watching/
Magazines
feed-has-gone-to-the-dogs/">University of Winnipeg’s Instagram feed has gone to the dogs
New chancellor inspires an update to Kwantlen Polytechnic...
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/issues/jan-feb2021/
Features
Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
feeding the world.”
If that sounds daunting, it is, says Dr. Van Acker. “Staying on top of that transition is hard enough, and so is just getting the message out to students,” he says. “Our target for recruitment is 14- to 16-year-olds, mostly urban, probably with no connection to agricul...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/agriculture-programs-change-with-the-times/
News
feeding used fluorescent light bulbs into the “bulb eater.” The machine instantly crushes the glass tube and reportedly sucks up 99.9 percent of the mercury and phosphorous inside, which is then re-used for the production of new bulbs. According to
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/a-crushing-job/
In my opinion
Babies rarely work to their mother’s timetable or a conference schedule.
feeding. I have found myself in that position a few times in the past decade. While in other circumstances I might have been able to leave my children at home with my husband, breastfeeding creates a new hurdle. For some women, this situation can last from two to six months. For others, either becau...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-breastfeeding-conference-presenter/
Features
Universities must act decisively when disaster strikes.
feeds and emergency alerts to its websites, office phones, campus computers, university email addresses, over public address systems, to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, and to mobile devices of people who have signed up to receive them.
The University of Toronto, for example, has a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/universities-plan-emergencies/
Speculative Diction
feeds lately that I had a hard time deciding what to write about this week.
I think, perhaps because of all the other education-related news, that very little attention has been paid to the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology report entitled “Opening the Door: Reducing Ba...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/a-national-strategy-for-canadian-education-again/
Speculative Diction
feeds for months, I think it would only end up as the elephant in the room.
Like so many others in the U.S. and around the world, I found the election outcome infuriating and disturbing (but not surprising), not just because I have so many friends in the U.S., or because it’s not even remotely ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/post-election-pondering/
Media
UBC women’s volleyball player Lisa Barclay has been named the Canada West Female Athlete of the Year. Photo courtesy of the UBC Thunderbird’s Instagram feed.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/of-course-we-need-varsity-sport/opinion_varsitysport_644/
Media
Following killer whales while they feed while collecting hydroacoustics data to assess the presence and abundance of fish. Sarah Fortune (seated) records behavioural data, while Keith Holmes (drone pilot) prepares to record overhead behaviours, and Taryn Scarff gets ready to launch the drone. Photo courtesy of A.W. Trites/UBC.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/high-tech-tracking-devices-shed-wildlifes-secrets/trites-5592_644x374/
Media
Following killer whales while they feed while collecting hydroacoustics data to assess the presence and abundance of fish. Sarah Fortune (seated) records behavioural data, while Keith Holmes (drone pilot) prepares to record overhead behaviours, and Taryn Scarff gets ready to launch the drone. Photo courtesy of A.W. Trites/UBC.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/actualites/actualites-article/des-dispositifs-de-suivi-de-pointe-devoilent-les-secrets-de-la-nature/trites-5592_644x374-2/
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