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BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | October 25 2023

With support for graduate students at a breaking point, Canadian universities are feeling the impact.

While finishing her PhD last year, Sivani Baskaran was faced with a common dilemma: continue on in academia or move to the private sector. With student loans from her undergraduate degree and very little in savings after six years of graduate school, the financial impli...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/why-canada-is-losing-the-next-generation-of-researchers/
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BY ANDRÉE LAJOIE | July 23 2014

Dans un ouvrage publié sur l’œuvre et la vie de Guy Rocher, on apprend comment le célèbre intellectuel québécois en est venu à développer la sociologie du droit.

Guy Rocher est incontestablement l’un des sociologues les plus connus et respectés dans le monde. Professeur à l’Université de Montréal depuis 1960, il a formé des générations d’étudiants, sans compter tous ceux qui se sont initiés à cette discipline en parcourant son fameux Intr...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/guy-rocher-un-sociologue-parmi-les-juristes/
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BY NATALIE SAMSON | September 06 2017

10 questions pour les universités qui élaborent une réaction coordonnée au suicide sur les campus.

Le suicide est la deuxième cause de décès, après les accidents, chez les jeunes adultes. C’est donc une réalité à laquelle toutes les universités feront face un jour ou l’autre sur leur campus. Lors du congrès annuel de l’Association des services aux étudiants des universités et col...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/votre-universite-est-elle-prete-reagir-au-suicide/
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BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | January 31 2019

La prévention, le traitement des plaintes et les relations intimes entre professeurs et étudiants sont abordés dans les nouvelles politiques récemment adoptées.

La plupart des universités québécoises ont adopté récemment une politique de lutte contre les violences sexuelles, respectant ainsi la date butoir fixée par le gouvernement provincial au 1er janvier dernier. Ces politiques doivent entrer en vigueur le 1er septembre 2019. ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-universites-quebecoises-intensifient-leur-lutte-contre-les-violences-sexuelles/
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BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | January 18 2021

La lutte contre le racisme n’est pas un phénomène passager, affirme la directrice générale de l’Association canadienne des écoles de sciences infirmières.

Dans la vidéo qu’elle a filmée peu de temps avant de mourir, Joyce Echaquan crie sa détresse dans un lit de l’hôpital de Joliette, au Québec. Malgré la douleur, elle a diffusé son expérience sur Facebook Live, dans cet enregistrement, on voit le personnel l’insulter et minimiser sa so...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/actualites/actualites-article/les-programmes-de-soins-infirmiers-au-canada-sattaquent-aux-prejuges-raciaux-dans-la-profession/
In my opinion
BY DAVID K. FOOT | April 09 2014

Démographie et effectif étudiant.

Depuis 15 ans, les établissements d’enseignement postsecondaires du Canada bénéficient de la fréquentation des enfants des baby-boomers, dits de la génération Y, nés entre 1980 et 1996 et aujourd’hui âgés de 18 à 34 ans. Les plus nombreux d’entre eux, nés en 1991, ont aujourd’hui ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/une-crise-de-leffectif-postsecondaire-se-profile/
In my opinion
BY MARC COUTURE | January 19 2018

Le mouvement pour la science ouverte, porté par une nouvelle génération de chercheurs, propose un changement radical dans la manière dont la science se fait.

La scène se passe dans une université près de chez vous. Le professeur Vedette rencontre sa jeune collègue Étoile Montante.   Pr. Vedette. – Bonne nouvelle ce matin : mon article a été accepté dans Prestige. Ça a été long, mais on a fini par satisfaire l...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/reinventer-la-science/
In my opinion
BY TAYLOR PRICE | July 22 2022

Parfois, il faut perdre la face pour s’améliorer.

En toute amitié, j’invite tous mes collègues universitaires à arrêter de faire des exposés trop longs, ennuyants et désorganisés. Des caractéristiques régulièrement associées au style hermétique. Je n’aime pas les présentations hermétiques, et je soupçonne que vous ne les aimez pa...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/a-bas-le-style-hermetique-trois-suggestions-pour-rendre-vos-exposes-plus-interessants/
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BY DIANE PETERS | October 26 2022

The interdisciplinary approach to human, animal and environmental health is gaining traction in teaching and research, but the field still struggles against institutional silos.

At the start of her graduate studies at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College in 2018, Sydney Pearce presented her research on improving antibiotic use in the dairy industry at a conference. She spoke of animal health, human behaviour, the social deter...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/making-the-case-for-one-health/
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BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | March 08 2023

In the Students as Partners approach, instructors collaborate with students to develop a university course.

Despite it being her first year at Bishop’s University, Sonoma Brawley has already helped five different faculty members improve their course design. The music undergraduate is a student consultant for the Bishop’s https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/co-designing-the-curriculum/
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BY NATALIE SAMSON | September 10 2014

The building has been called “courageous, bold and just a little insane.”

When OCAD University unveiled the Sharp Centre for Design in 2004, as part of the school’s $42.5-million campus makeover, the public quickly took sides. “No one was indifferent,” recalls Will Alsop, the architect behind the Sharp Centre. “People either really loved it or hated it and to ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/ocad-university-sharp-centre-for-design-turns-10/
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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | October 29 2014

A wide range of new programs in design and media broaden their appeal to a job-focused cohort of students.

When Ron Burnett arrived in Vancouver to become president of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 1996, a majority of students were enrolled in the visual arts. Today about 35 percent of the students are pursuing degrees in the visual arts, 40 percent are in design programs – the fastest growi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-art-design-adapt-show-value-degrees/
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BY ANQI SHEN | September 13 2017

The online resource will offer advice on the job search process with attention to specific challenges transgender applicants face.

Simon Fraser University is offering a new resource this fall for transgender students looking for employment: an online guide with advice on a range of issues, such as “What name should I use on my resumé and cover letter?” and “Can I include jobs I held under a different name?” While qu...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/simon-fraser-university-develops-job-seeking-guide-transgender-students/
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BY NATALIE SAMSON | September 23 2020

Speaking to Parliamentarians last month about universities’ response to COVID-19, university presidents asked for support for international students and continued emergency research funding.

On August 14, four days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament, representatives from the academic research and university sector addressed the Continue reading about t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/university-sector-highlights-importance-of-international-students-and-research-funding-in-summer-address-to-house-of-commons-committee/
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BY SHAUNA MCGINN | September 08 2022

The four-month pilot project will see staff work a 28-hour week instead of the typical 35.

Administrative staff at Saint Paul University in Ottawa transitioned to a four-day work week in July, the first step of this kind in Canada’s postsecondary realm. The four-month pilot project will see staff work a 28-hour week instead of the typical 35, with no change to pay, time off, or pensions...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/saint-paul-university-staff-move-to-a-four-day-work-week/
Media Scan
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | September 28 2020
CBC Continue reading If September is any indication, the global pandemic has all but eradicated any semblan...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-sept-28-2020/
In my opinion
BY ANANYA BANERJEE | April 01 2021

Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.

Recently, I transitioned from being a professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health for the last four years to McGill University’s School of Global and Population Health. As a https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-the-pandemic-has-shown-social-justice-needs-to-be-central-to-public-health-education-in-canada/
From PhD to Life
BY JENNIFER POLK | September 04 2013
I’ve just finished hosting Continue reading and I’m feeling pretty darn good about it. That’s how I feel about my life these days in general: pretty darn good. A year ago---les...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/feeling-good/
Careers Café
BY LIZ KOBLYK | April 22 2019

Sitting on a board can help develop your ability to handle situations of accountability without authority.

When I worked with staff at the University of Waterloo, the clients I met with who transitioned from non-managerial roles to managerial ones often had something in common – and it wasn’t a love of management books. It was experience on a non-profit board of governors. Maybe a managerial role ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/branch-out-your-career-path-by-sitting-on-a-board/
Responsibilities May Include
BY SONJA SOO & EMILY BELL | November 22 2022

Three graduates share their PhD journeys and their forays into the biotechnology and therapeutics sector.

With the increasing pace of scientific and technological advances, a life sciences expertise is in high demand. Government inves...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/yes-a-phd-in-life-sciences-can-lead-to-a-career-outside-of-academe/
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