…archives meant largely physically collecting, searching and reviewing paper records. Today, and into the future, consulting archival documents increasingly means reading them on a screen. This brings with it opportunity…
READ MORE…years to come. Focused on Educational Return on Investment Since 1982, the financial picture for Canadian universities has fundamentally deteriorated. Full-time enrolment has doubled, but full-time faculty complements have increased…
READ MORE…or a compendium of irrelevance. As a committed bibliophile who spends so lavishly—and recklessly—on books, I could be pardoned for getting a bit shirty about students who manage to sail…
READ MORE…workplaces, a difference that is reflected in an institutional commitment to academic freedom—the freedom to explore and advance ideas and information (that may sometimes be unconventional and controversial). Academic freedom…
READ MORE…Affairs, September 12, 2011. www.universityaffairs.ca/professionaldevelopment-for-grad-students.aspx (accessed September 3, 2013). 7. See The Conference Board of Canada’s Education and Skills Products www.conferenceboard.ca/topics/education/learning-tools.aspx and McGill’s award winning professional development program SkillSet. www.mcgill.ca/skillsets…
READ MORE…thrive amidst the challenges of academic life. It often comes down to personality. Despite the candidate’s obvious brilliance, tenure is denied. The comment “insufferably arrogant,” uttered almost sotto voce just…
READ MORE…Select Committee Inquiry: The Impact of Government Spending Cuts on Science and Scientific Research, 2010 Jan., https://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/media/5260/evidence-to-commons-science-and-technology-committee-inquiry-on-the-impact-of-funding-cuts-to-scientific-research.pdf. 2. Liz Morrish, “Why the Audit Culture Made Me Quit,” 2017, http://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/why-audit-culture-made-me-quit; for…
READ MORE…national-level SoTL advisory committee, and established the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Table 1 lists a sampling of SoTL-related initiatives in Canada, created simply by visiting…
READ MORE…commitments already made by post-secondary institutions. Universities in Ontario, and across Canada, have been and remain bastions for the free expression of ideas. In Ontario, the commitment is reflected in…
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