Topic: Students
My year as a grade 12 student
With baby boomers now planning retirement, education in the “third age” will continue to expand. Teachers will need better preparation to meet the learning needs of older adults, but university departments that specialize in adult education have been under threat since the 1990s.
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Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Students, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Tuition and student fees
Broadening accessibility to postsecondary education in Canada
Increasing access to postsecondary education is a challenging problem with no easy solutions. But given Canada’s demographics and the rapidly changing nature of our economy, it’s a problem we cannot ignore. We can’t afford to be satisfied with current participation rates while key components of our population are ill-equipped to engage with the emerging social and economic realities of the twenty-first century.
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A time to teach: Reflections upon pedagogy in the life of a graduate student
Does the dearth of pedagogical training and awareness and too-heavy overburdened workloads contribute to culture of “antipedagogy” on campus?
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Mentor: Someone Whose Hindsight Can Become Your Foresight
When done properly, mentorship plays an important role in graduate student success. Mentoring relationships encourage the transfer of relevant knowledge, skills and, competencies that will allow graduate students to be successful during their studies and in their professional careers.
READ MORETeaching Mentorship Matters
Learning how to teach is an important process of academic life. But when should it begin? How does it happen? Who should be involved? Who is responsible?
READ MOREUnpacking the teaching-research nexus and its influence on academic practice
Brad Wuetherick, Director of Undergraduate Student Services in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta looks at how rethinking the teaching-research nexus might enhance both the student and faculty experience of higher education.
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Equity and social justice, International issues, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A fresh look at what counts towards student access and success
Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher, eds., Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Students, Universities and the academic mission
Definitely not for loss
Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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Equity within education
Jeanie K. Allen, Diane R. Dean and Susan D. Bracken, eds., Most College Students are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy (Stylus 2008) and Linda J. Sax, The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men (John Wiley &Sons 2008)
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