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Equity and social justice, Public engagement, Tuition and student fees

The High Cost of Low Tuition in Quebec

Jacob T. Levy

Read Daniel Weinstock’s take on this issue. At this writing, the student unions’ boycott of classes in Quebec has ended in success. […]

Not Another Brick in the Wall: Capitalism and Student Protests in Chile

Andrés Bernasconi

A few days ago, I visited a high school in a poor urban area in Western Santiago and met with the junior […]

“Ensemble, bloquons la hausse”: The Rationale Behind the Slogan

Martin Robert

In the spring of 2012 hundreds of thousands of Quebec students and their allies took to the streets to protest the government’s proposed tuition fee increase. Martin Robert makes the case against the tuition increase and proposes an alternative model in which tuition would be free in Quebec.

The Massive Open Online Professor

Stephen Carson and Jan Philipp Schmidt

The new open and social technologies may allow academics to have their cake and eat it, too. A professor can be a […]

Technology

Upgrade Anxiety and the Aging Expert

Thomas R. Klassen

By definition university professors are experts in their fields. Given the laws of the universe, however, professors are also aging experts. Not […]

Becoming Prof 2.0

Melonie Fullick

In October 2010, “So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities” was posted on YouTube and began to circulate rapidly […]

Tenure and Academic Freedom: The Beginning of the End

Benjamin Ginsberg

Since the Second World War, Canadian and American universities have offered faculty members tenure, the promise of lifetime employment to those who […]

Online education, Technology

Challenges, Opportunities, and New Expectations

Sidneyeve Matrix

Last term, having received a request from the campus Disability Services Office, I asked my lecture class of 700 students for volunteers […]

The Professor as Mass Communicator?

Andy Miah

While much about being a university professor has remained unchanged for centuries, the way today’s academics research, teach, and fulfil administrative duties […]

Zen and the Art of Metacognition: Quality-Based Discrimination, Peer Assessment & Technology

Steve Joordens, Dwayne Pare, Lisa-Marie Collimore & Tim Cheng

In 1974, Robert M. Pirsig wrote a book entitled “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, within which he provided a philosophical […]

The High Cost of Low Tuition in Quebec

Not Another Brick in the Wall: Capitalism and Student Protests in Chile

“Ensemble, bloquons la hausse”: The Rationale Behind the Slogan

The Massive Open Online Professor

Upgrade Anxiety and the Aging Expert

Becoming Prof 2.0

Tenure and Academic Freedom: The Beginning of the End

Challenges, Opportunities, and New Expectations

The Professor as Mass Communicator?

Zen and the Art of Metacognition: Quality-Based Discrimination, Peer Assessment & Technology

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