Topic: Public engagement
Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement, Public policy
Why labour strife at universities should concern us all
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Equity and social justice, History, International issues, Politics, Public engagement, Students, Teaching and learning
Canada’s Latin American community is growing, and universities must improve teaching about the region
Canada’s Latinx community is growing fast. That signals a greater need for Latinx studies at Canadian universities. (Shutterstock) This past October marked […]
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How social sciences and humanities programs can prepare students for employment
Involving social sector organizations in students’ experiential learning allows students to develop important skills, and this can also serve as a community […]
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Equity and social justice, Public engagement, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Universities need to revisit their founding stories
Indigenous histories often go unrecognized in institutional university memories. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston Universities pride themselves on their founding stories. These stories, […]
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Humanities are essential in understanding the Russian war against Ukraine
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demonstrate against the war in Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022 in Strasbourg, […]
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Public engagement, Public policy, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
Reckoning with the truths of unmarked graves of Indigenous children, education systems must take action
A temporary memorial for Canada’s residential schools is blessed by Indigenous elders in a pipe ceremony in Calgary in August 2021. THE […]
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Performance assessment, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission
Who cares about university research? The answer depends on its impacts
Few researchers will have the impact of Robert Langer, but they can learn from what researchers like him do. Martin Bliemel, University […]
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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
For this issue, Ojibway author and journalist Tanya Talaga sat down with Victoria McMurchy from Academic Matters to discuss how Canadian postsecondary […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Performance assessment, Public engagement, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
What Doug Ford could learn from Wisconsin about higher education
The entrance to the agriculture building at the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus. Shutterstock Buried within Ontario’s 2019 budget is a drastic […]
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Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics, Public engagement, Students
The university in the populist age
Right-wing populism threatens the future of higher education, but remaining passive and retreating to a disinterested vision of the university will actually […]
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