Topic: Students
Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Students, Tuition and student fees
The neoliberal non-performance of consultation: Missing democracy and transparency at the University of Toronto
The University of Toronto has long been criticized for its general conservatism and lack of transparency; this story is almost as old […]
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What will student protests look like when classes are online?
This fall will see a change in the ways college students participate in campus activism, experts suggest. Maddie Meyer / Staff/GettyImages Editor’s […]
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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
A person bicycles past the University of Toronto campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette […]
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Remote teaching and technology-facilitated gender-based and sexual violence
Content warning: This article includes discussions of intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and rape. Introduction As provincial and federal governments […]
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Coronavirus: When teaching during a disaster, students need to be partners
A worker takes the temperature of a visitor to Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn., April 10, 2020. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP) […]
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Students less likely to report sexual harassment when the perpetrator is a professor
Some victims say their reports drew retaliation. pic_studio/Getty Images In 2017, Karen Kelsky, a consultant for people looking for academic jobs, launched […]
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Why universities and colleges should think twice before punishing student protesters
Student activists are calling attention to a wide range of issues on campus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images For much of the 2019-2020 academic […]
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The mental health crisis on campus and how universities and colleges can fix it
Campus counseling centers are seeing an influx of students seeking help with mental health issues. Motortion/Shutterstock.com When college students seek help for […]
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Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Students
Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them
Universities have a responsibility to reduce barriers in student learning, and one way to do this is through creating textbooks that […]
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Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Funding, Politics, Students, Tuition and student fees
How the “Student Choice Initiative” seeks to silence student voices
For decades, students’ unions have been raising concerns about skyrocketing tuition fees. Now, in an obscene twist, the Ford government is using […]
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