Topic: Students

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.

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Equity and social justice, International issues, Students, Tuition and student fees

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 […]

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Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Students

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 […]

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Academic mentorship, International issues, Students, Teaching and learning

Stop treating students like customers and start working with them as partners in learning

Kelly E Matthews, The University of Queensland

  Students and lecturers at the University of Queensland researching ‘students as partners’ activities across Australian universities. The University of Queensland University […]

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Equity and social justice, Health and safety, International issues, Students

Universities must tackle sexual violence on and off campus

Lucy Winrow, University of Salford

A student-led campaign to end sexual violence at universities – Revolt Sexual Assault (RSA) – published the results of a national student […]

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International issues, Open learning, open access, and open source, Students, Teaching and learning

New federal program tackles spiraling costs of college textbooks in U.S.

MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis

The new grant program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education, will support the creation or improved use of open textbooks for use at any college and university. Open textbooks are made freely available online by their authors. They can also be changed and combined by instructors who use them in their classes.

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Student lie in at the White House to protest gun laws crop. Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons
Equity and social justice, International issues, Students

#NeverAgain: do student protests work? History tells us they can

Claire Cooke, University of Western Australia

  Student lie in at the White House to protest gun laws crop. Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons When 17 students and teachers were […]

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Equity and social justice, Students

Whiteness characterises higher education institutions – so why are we surprised by racism?

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Leeds Beckett University

Rufaro Chisango, a black student at Nottingham Trent University, tweeted a video of students chanting “we hate the blacks” outside of her […]

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Students

Collecting data from students with students

Ruth Childs

Gathering data on university students can provide important information about how they interact with the postsecondary education system, but it is also […]

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