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Equity and social justice, International issues

South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed

Oliver Mutanga, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo; Bothwell Manyonga, University of South Africa, and Sindile Ngubane-Mokiwa, University of South Africa

South Africa finally has a disability policy that’s specific to the higher education sector. The new policy framework should be celebrated as an achievement. Its value is that, because it’s specific to the sector, it gives institutions (such as universities) a common vision. It also enables monitoring and evaluation of progress that is context specific.

Equity and social justice, International issues, Students

When race triggers a call to campus police

Brian N. Williams, University of Virginia; Andrea M. Headley, University of California, Berkeley, and Megan LePere-Schloop, The Ohio State University

On a beautiful spring afternoon on a picturesque college campus, two campus police officers responded to a black professor’s “good afternoon” with a request to see his identification. The professor paused for a moment but decided to comply. He wondered if perhaps his attire – slacks, a button-down shirt and loafers – didn’t signal that he belonged.

Why there are so few Indigenous graduates at convocation

Veldon Coburn, McGill University

Convocation can be a very emotional occasion. Each year, it seems, the commentariat is whipped up into near hysterics over some honorary […]

Equity and social justice, Politics, Public policy, Students

The importance of international students to Atlantic Canada

Kelly Toughill, University of King's College

Anita faced a tough choice when she discovered she was unexpectedly pregnant. If she took a term off school to care for her newborn, her family would lose its dream of settling in Canada. So, eight weeks after the summer birth, with her diplomat husband away on a long-term work assignment in the Caribbean and two more children at home, the international student from Cameroon returned to class full-time.

Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it

Colin Jevons, Monash University and Sophie Lindsay, Monash University

Student attrition is of concern to universities and to politicians and, most importantly, costly for the students concerned, both financially and emotionally. […]

Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Students, Teaching and learning

Navigating racism: Black graduate students need support

Anita Jack-Davies, Queen's University, Ontario

I have mixed feelings about my experiences in graduate school. As a Black, first-generation Canadian and the first in my family to become a doctoral student, I did not understand the culture of the academy. If I knew then what I know now as an Adjunct Professor teaching part time, I might have made different choices.

When college and university tuition goes up, campus diversity goes down

Drew Allen, Princeton University and Gregory C. Wolniak, New York University

As college tuition continues to rise at a staggering rate, people tend to worry about how much harder it becomes for students […]

Equity and social justice

Race and gender still an issue at academic conferences

Sara Cannon, University of British Columbia; David A. Reid, University of British Columbia; Kiely McFarlane, University of British Columbia; Leonora King, University of British Columbia; Lucy MacKenzie, University of British Columbia; Marc Tadaki, University of British Columbia, and Michele Koppes, University of British Columbia

In the midst of social justice movements such as #MeToo, pervasive sexist and racist attitudes are being examined across all sectors, including […]

Mental illness on campus really is ‘a thing’

Ivor Shapiro, Ryerson University

Unlike his former classmates, Alex isn’t writing final exams right now, or searching for a summer job, or choosing electives for next […]

A university president apologizes for academia’s role in residential schools

Santa Ono, University of British Columbia

Earlier this month, I stood before hundreds of people gathered at the University of British Columbia and publicly apologized for the role […]

Topic: Equity and social justice

South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed

When race triggers a call to campus police

Why there are so few Indigenous graduates at convocation

The importance of international students to Atlantic Canada

Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it

Navigating racism: Black graduate students need support

When college and university tuition goes up, campus diversity goes down

Race and gender still an issue at academic conferences

Mental illness on campus really is ‘a thing’

A university president apologizes for academia’s role in residential schools

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