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Participation and enrolment, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

“And some, I assume, are good people”: US international student recruitment and neo-racist nativism

Dale Kirby, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of international students enrolled at Canadian colleges and universities had steadily increased in recent years. […]

Ethics, Health and safety, Participation and enrolment, Students, Universities and the academic mission

COVID-19: Don’t make university students choose between education and legal rights

Jason MacLean, University of New Brunswick and Hilary Young, University of New Brunswick

A person bicycles past the University of Toronto campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette […]

Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Participation and enrolment

How to make universities more inclusive? Hire more working-class academics

Carole Binns, University of Bradford

Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock For several years, higher education institutions have been putting in place widening participation initiatives. These are designed to help […]

Funding, International issues, Participation and enrolment, Performance assessment, Public policy

Government funding in Australia will be tied to university performance from 2020: what does this mean, and what are the challenges?

Emmaline Bexley, La Trobe University

“Buildings at University of Sydney – 9”by Ameel Khan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Education minister Dan Tehan met with university […]

Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Public engagement, Public policy, Students, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

Bringing Indigenous viewpoints to higher education

Tanya Talaga and Victoria McMurchy

For this issue, Ojibway author and journalist Tanya Talaga sat down with Victoria McMurchy from Academic Matters to discuss how Canadian postsecondary […]

The Indigenous diversity gap

Malinda S. Smith and Nancy Bray

Where are the Indigenous Peoples in Canadian universities? Canadian postsecondary institutions have pursued equity, diversity, and inclusion policies and programs since the […]

Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Students, Universities and the academic mission

Supporting mature female students enrolling in university STEM programs

Liette Vasseur, Brock University

Mature women students face additional barriers when enrolling in STEM programs. Shutterstock Women face many barriers when it comes to post-secondary education, […]

Academic mentorship, Participation and enrolment, Teaching and learning

Mentors play critical role in quality of university and college experience, new poll suggests

Leo M. Lambert, Elon University; Jason Husser, Elon University, and Peter Felten, Elon University

In order to have a rewarding college experience, students should build a constellation of mentors. This constellation should be a diverse set of faculty, staff and peers who will get students out of their comfort zones and challenge them to learn more – and more deeply – than they thought they could. Students should begin to build this network during their first year of college.

Dangerous stereotypes stalk black university and college athletes

Joseph Cooper, University of Connecticut

If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. McNair died earlier this year following a grueling practice in which training staff failed to properly diagnose and treat his condition. But there’s another culprit – or at least a contributing factor – that should not be overlooked.

Equity and social justice, International issues, Participation and enrolment

For universities, making the case for diversity is part of making amends for racist past

Juan Miró, University of Texas at Austin and Edmund T Gordon, University of Texas at Austin

The Trump administration recently announced plans to scrap Obama-era guidelines that encouraged universities to consider race as a factor to promote diversity on campus, claiming the guidelines “advocate policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.” Some university leaders immediately went on the defense.

Topic: Participation and enrolment

“And some, I assume, are good people”: US international student recruitment and neo-racist nativism

COVID-19: Don’t make university students choose between education and legal rights

Government funding in Australia will be tied to university performance from 2020: what does this mean, and what are the challenges?

Mentors play critical role in quality of university and college experience, new poll suggests

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