UnivCan.ca UniversityStudy.ca

University Study

En Fr

English Français

UnivCan.ca UniversityStudy.ca

Keeping Canada’s university community informed, inspired and connected

News

Opinion

Features

Career Advice

News Enrolment

Sports administration: an academic boom in a challenging market

Canadian sports administration programs are proliferating, but questions arise about whether available training outstrips job prospects.
News Campus news

Memorial med student makes art to assist classmates’ study

What started as a hobby is now helpful for both his degree and his fellow classmates.
News Campus news

Five UM scholars named among Canada’s Most Powerful Women

‘I like to think that a powerful woman is one who has the wherewithal to bring out the best in those she leads, mentors, and serves.’
News Campus news

UNBC prof developing toolkit to help women feel safe online

‘Digital rights is a very important form of gender equality.’

Opinion

Prof pas prof, j’y vais: off-site meeting

Take a look at the comic strip page featuring humorous takes on faculty life in our March issue.
Opinion Equity

Towards a more equitable syllabus

Women students in political science share what makes a syllabus feel fair and inclusive
Opinion Artificial intelligence

California went big on AI in universities. Canada should go smart instead

Learning requires struggle, persistence, iteration and deep focus.
Opinion Equity

Black women in Canadian universities face systemic racism and discrimination

A portrait of the systemic challenges faced by Black female professors in Canadian universities, and ways to support them.

Features Equity

Breaking the glass ceiling: Women in Canadian university leadership

Despite making up the majority of faculty, women are still underrepresented among university leadership.
Features People to know

Jean-Marc Narbonne: A philosophical approach to our era

Through his work on ancient philosophy and commitment to democracy, Jean-Marc Narbonne highlights how critical thinking and civic debate can help us better understand and contend with contemporary challenges.
Features Equity

The long road to equity

Despite increased institutional commitment, experiences of men and women faculty differ starkly.
Features Equity

Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions

A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.

Career Advice Advice

Addressing the leak in Canada’s academic pipeline

Systemic challenges often start in graduate school for women.
Career Advice Advice

Clarify this: structuring highly readable lists (Part 2 of 2)

One way to simplify potentially complex lists is to arrange the items to progress in complexity, placing the ‘heaviest’ or most complex item at the end.
Career Advice Advice

Strategies to help with the hardest part of our job: grading

Grading can be tedious, but there are ways to make it more human and – surprisingly – more fun.
Career Advice Advice

Teaching in a world of bleakness

Instructors have the opportunity to provide students with empathy, context and skills to manage our current context.

Tag archive

Students

Career Advice Advice

Teaching in a world of bleakness

Instructors have the opportunity to provide students with empathy, context and skills to manage our current context.

by
Loleen Berdahl & Christie Schultz
February 20, 2025

Most popular

The University Affairs Newsletter

Keeping Canada’s university community informed, inspired and connected

This site is registered on wpml.org as a development site. Switch to a production site key to remove this banner.