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History, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

Ryerson’s reputational crisis: What to do about its namesake and his legacy

Sibo Chen, Ryerson University

Shoes are placed at the base of the vandalized Egerton Ryerson statue at Ryerson University in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn In […]

Arts and culture, History, Research and innovation

How the pandemic changed my approach to humanities research and scholarship: A personal reflection

Ruth Panofsky, Ryerson University

Now that I am sufficiently removed from the dire doomsday feelings of March 2020, when COVID-19 first took hold and I was […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, History, Public policy, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission

Public money, private profit: A history of U of T’s MaRS Discovery District

Chelsea Tao and Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto

It is well known that the University of Toronto (U of T) has historically played an important role in scientific innovation. This […]

History, Journals and publishing, Teaching and learning

A message in an old Science treasure box: Teach students to think mathematically

Andie Burazin, University of Toronto; Veselin Jungic, Simon Fraser University; Miroslav Lovric, McMaster University

What are the chief aims of teaching mathematics in university engineering programs? To what extent should mathematical subjects be presented to students, […]

Equity and social justice, Ethics, History, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

Evadne Kelly, University of Guelph and Carla Rice, University of Guelph

The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them […]

Equity and social justice, History, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

What does ‘We are all treaty people’ mean, and who speaks for Indigenous students on campus?

Paul McKenzie-Jones, University of Lethbridge

While there has been a recent growing awareness of Indigenous cultures at Canadian universities, racism, violence and dismissal still dominate conversations on […]

History, Libraries, Technology

Historians’ archival research looks quite different in the digital age

Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo

Today, and into the future, consulting archival documents increasingly means reading them on a screen. (Shutterstock) Our society’s historical record is undergoing […]

Student perspectives on good teaching: what history reveals

Paul Axelrod

What constitutes effective and engaging university pedagogy, and have student impressions of this changed through the ages? My reading of memoirs, biographies, […]