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By changing the way we discuss scholarly work, we will not only improve scholarship but also reduce the unnecessary hostility rampant in academia.
Though graduate students may have had their studies disrupted, this can be a time of opportunity and empowerment. It’s all a matter of perspective.
While celebrating the achievements of Black colleagues is important, we need to acknowledge that it can also be exhausting and even harmful.
The struggle for our own attention led teaching and learning specialists to design a targeted workshop series using mindfulness and other strategies.
The landscape of scientific research is constantly evolving alongside your career trajectory since the needs of society versus the needs of your career and life are always in flux.To read the previous articles in this series please visit the links below: &...
One academic’s experience running a campaign and joining a university council.
They’ve been called “odd ducks,” “eccentrics” or “little professors.” Now these often brilliant but socially awkward students, diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, are flocking to postsecondary classrooms in greater numbers than ever before. Here’s how faculty are meeting the challenge.
Reconsidering a ‘funny’ image.
Une image supposément « rigolote ».
More technology, quizzes, games and discussion boards in a class don’t necessarily lead to better teaching – they can lead to burnout for both professors and students.
A diversity of mentors is instrumental for supporting PhD students in exploring life outside of the tenure track.
Once hailed as the mightiest magic bullet since antibiotics, gene therapy quickly hit technical and ethical roadblocks. But the lessons learned are helping to guide the next generation of genetic research
Jadis saluée comme la plus grande découverte depuis les antibiotiques, la thérapie génique s’est rapidement heurtée à des obstacles techniques et éthiques. Cependant, les leçons tirées contribuent à orienter les travaux de la prochaine génération de chercheurs
How the new credo for community-engaged research is making a difference both in communities and at universities.
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/nothing-about-us-without-us/
In my opinion
Modifier notre façon de discuter de la recherche en favoriserait l’excellence en plus de résister à l’hostilité injustifiée qui sévit dans notre milieu.
Bien qu’on en parle peu, le milieu universitaire est devenu un terrain miné pour la santé mentale. Selon plusieurs articles (savants et autres), les symptômes de dépression, de panique et d’anxiété sont légion chez les universitaires, particulièrement chez les étudiants aux cycles supé...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/evaluation-par-les-pairs-reapprendre-la-civilite/
Responsibilities May Include
Les perturbations qui secouent le monde universitaire présentement pourraient bien être l’occasion de découvrir vos possibilités et de renforcer votre autonomie. Tout dépend de votre état d’esprit.
Comme l’application des mesures d’éloignement physique a forcé les universités à restreindre les activités sur les campus, les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs ont subi de graves perturbations dans leurs programmes d’études : projets de recherche interrompus, rédaction retardée, date...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/responsabilites-potentielles/adopter-une-mentalite-de-croissance-pour-faire-face-a-lincertitude/
Features
Campus support programs are helping a diverse set of students to succeed in a system that wasn’t designed for them.
Dominique Oliver-Dares remembers being a first-year undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, looking around at the other students in her “humongous” introductory classes and seeing only a handful of Black students like her spread out around the room. “It was very isolating,” she recall...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/make-way-for-the-non-traditional-student/
Features
Over the past year we've read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories. Here are six that stayed with us.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/what-well-remember-from-2019/
Features
Universities across the country are reassessing historical figures and renaming the buildings that commemorated them.
When Eva Jewell taught her first lecture at Ryerson University in 2019, she was nervous. Burdened by imposter syndrome, she was worried about the prospect of standing in front of a class of some 100 students. To counter those feelings, the sociology professor from Deshk...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/reconsidering-ryerson-why-indigenous-and-non-indigenous-students-faculty-and-staff-are-demanding-the-university-change-its-name/
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