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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, […]