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BY BECKY RYNOR | September 26 2016
Researchers at universities across the country are struggling, says Dr. Woodgett of Toronto’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute.
When the Canadian Institutes of Health Research attempted to reform how it awards grants earlier this year, the backlash from the science community was swift, vociferous and unprecedented, according to prominent cell biologist Jim Woodgett. A professor in the department of medical biophysics at ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/jim-woodgett-wrote-open-letter-blasting-cihr-reforms-comes-next/
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BY BECKY RYNOR | October 18 2016
Selon Jim Woodgett de l’Institut de recherche Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum à Toronto, la situation pose problème pour les chercheurs universitaires de partout au pays
Quand les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) ont entrepris de réformer les modalités d’attribution des subventions plus tôt cette année, le milieu scientifique a réagi avec une célérité et une véhémence encore jamais vues, estime Jim Woodgett, éminent biologiste cell...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/pourquoi-jim-woodgett-denonce-les-reformes-des-irsc/
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BY DAVID P. BURNS & ANYA GOLDIN | November 16 2016
Créer son propre contenu ou se tourner vers des vidéos et des balados professionnels?
Au cours des deux dernières années, le département d’études en enseignement de l’Université polytechnique Kwantlen s’est efforcé de repousser les limites de ce qu’un petit département peut faire pour créer des cours en ligne et des ressources numériques attrayantes. Dans le cadre d...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/planifier-le-contenu-des-cours-en-ligne/
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BY ADAM CRYMBLE | January 23 2017
An expat explains how a temporary leave to study in the U.K. turned into a life abroad – and what the government could do to bring him back.
Growing up in small-town Ontario, I always had a nagging feeling that Canadians who moved abroad were traitors. They had shunned our country for monetary gain, or sunshine or fame. But I’ve become one of those people – part of the nation’s brain drain – and I can assure you that it was entir...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/canadas-accidental-brain-drain/
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BY WENDY GLAUSER | August 01 2018
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/
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BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | August 08 2018
The job can be challenging, all-consuming and even isolating – but also rewarding.
A week after becoming head of the department of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, a position that would eventually lead him in 2016 to his current role as dean of the university’s Ontario Agricultural College, Rene Van Acker sent a short email to his own former department head, Murray...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/untangling-what-it-means-to-be-a-dean/
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BY MOIRA MACDONALD | September 25 2019
They affirm that universities have a vital role to play in helping society navigate through the deepest challenges of our time, from climate change to the dangers of misinformation and rising intolerance.
How will Canadian universities change over the next 20 years? What challenges will they face and what opportunities lie ahead? In honour of University Affairs’ 60th anniversary, we put questions like these to seven people representing different regions and facets of the university enterpr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/7-university-leaders-contemplate-the-future-of-higher-education-in-canada/
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BY EDMUND ADAM | April 29 2020
What the history of pandemics can tell university leaders about the aftermath of COVID-19.
Multiple times pandemics have gripped the world, interrupting the social and economic networks of untold millions, and sometimes altering the societies they spread through, their cultures and their institutions. The university is one of those institutions that pandemics have affected in significant ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-tale-of-two-pandemics/
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BY EVA VOINIGESCU | June 24 2020
L’Institut et hôpital neurologiques de Montréal instaure un modèle de science ouverte qui pourrait transformer la façon dont la recherche médicale est menée dans le monde.
Cet article est un sommaire de l’article « Continue reading ».
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/le-neuro-de-montreal-porteur-de-changement-dans-les-sciences-universitaires/
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BY MOIRA MACDONALD | June 30 2020
Seven academics reflect on the moment they realized the world had changed.
Exhausting days, sleepless nights, overwhelming uncertainty and a paramount concern for the welfare of students, faculty and staff. Universities were among the first organizations to shut down in-person operations and pivot rapidly to remote teaching and learning in response to the COVID-19 global p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/where-were-you-when-the-pandemic-hit/