Topic: Teaching and learning
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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Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
The role of faculty associations following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
As universities take on the work of Indigenization, what role do faculty and faculty associations have in advancing the recommendations of the […]
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Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Protecting Indigenous language rights: Much more than campus signage needed
Despite the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, many universities are only making superficial efforts to integrate Indigenous languages […]
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Environmental sustainability, Health and safety, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
Indigenous researchers plant seeds of hope for health and climate
Indigenous land-based learning provides hands-on opportunities for knowledge development that shift away from Eurocentric forms of education. How can universities use land-based […]
READ MOREUniversities: increasingly stressful environments taking psychological toll – here’s what needs to change
shutterstock Every year, millions of international students travel to different countries to study at university. This, together with a lack of public […]
READ MOREUnrealistic striving for academic excellence has a cost
Skills of well-being have been forgotten partly due to a combination of educational reforms and societal pressures. Unsplash/Oscar Chevillard, CC BY-SA In […]
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Université de l’Ontario français: a 21st-century university
Ontario’s French community has been asking for a university governed by and for Francophones. Even without the support of the Ontario government, […]
READ MOREStudent perspectives on good teaching: what history reveals
What constitutes effective and engaging university pedagogy, and have student impressions of this changed through the ages? My reading of memoirs, biographies, […]
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Educators must commit now to tackle grade inflation
Thousands of students received unsettling news this fall regarding the rigour of their high school grades. They learned that at least one university in Ontario — the University of Waterloo — assesses new engineering applicants partially on the basis of which high school they attended and not solely on their grades.
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Gender quotas and targets would speed up progress on gender equity in academia
Recently, the University of Adelaide used a special exemption under the Equal Opportunity Act to advertise eight academic positions in the faculty of engineering, computer and mathematical sciences for women only. This raises questions about why a university might take this approach. While Australia has had gender equality legislation for 30 years, there has been very slow progress towards addressing the gender equity issues plaguing the sector. To illustrate, women are still under-represented at senior levels. Only 27% of full professors (the main recruitment pool for top jobs) are women, and only 32% of Vice-Chancellors in public universities.
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