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Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Politics, Students

Why universities and colleges should think twice before punishing student protesters

Jerusha Osberg Conner, Villanova University

Student activists are calling attention to a wide range of issues on campus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images For much of the 2019-2020 academic […]

Health and safety, Performance assessment

Survey of UK academics finds widespread feelings of stress and overwork

Mark Erickson, University of Brighton; Carl Walker, University of Brighton, and Paul Hanna, University of Surrey

shutterstock/tuaindeed Many people imagine universities to be calm and relaxed places of work, populated by academics who have long holidays, small workloads […]

Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Tuition and student fees

Canada’s high schools are underfunded and turning to international tuition to help

Lana Parker, University of Windsor; Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor, and Natalie Delia Deckard, University of Windsor

Protesters join a demonstration organized by teachers’ unions outside the Ontario Legislature, in Toronto, as four unions hold a province-wide education strike […]

Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Participation and enrolment

How to make universities more inclusive? Hire more working-class academics

Carole Binns, University of Bradford

Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock For several years, higher education institutions have been putting in place widening participation initiatives. These are designed to help […]

Online education, Teaching and learning, Technology

Lecture recordings mean fewer students are turning up – does it matter?

Natalie Skead, University of Western Australia; Fiona McGaughey, University of Western Australia; Kate Offer, University of Western Australia; Liam Elphick, University of Western Australia, and Murray Wesson, University of Western Australia

Shutterstock In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class […]

Equity and social justice, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Residential school literature can teach the colonial present and imagine better futures

Michelle Coupal, University of Regina

A detail of the book cover for ‘Seven Fallen Feathers’ by Tanya Talaga. (House of Anansi Press/’Seven Fallen Feathers,’ book cover art […]

Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights, Politics

What liberals and conservatives get wrong about free expression on university and college campuses

Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mark McNeilly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally for free speech near the University of California, Berkeley campus. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez When it […]

Collective bargaining, Performance assessment, Politics, Public policy

Mike Harris’s ‘common sense’ attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers’ strikes

Stephanie Chitpin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Susan Hoenhous and other teachers of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario participate in a full withdrawal of services strike in Toronto […]

Equity and social justice, Ethics, History, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

Evadne Kelly, University of Guelph and Carla Rice, University of Guelph

The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them […]

Academic freedom, Ethics, Free speech and expression rights, Universities and the academic mission

Universities should stand up for integrity and public trust in university teaching

Jay Wilson, University of Saskatchewan and Nadia Prokopchuk, University of Saskatchewan

Controversy erupted after a lecturer at the University of Alberta posted on Facebook in November that the Holomodor is a “myth.” Canada […]

Why universities and colleges should think twice before punishing student protesters

Survey of UK academics finds widespread feelings of stress and overwork

Canada’s high schools are underfunded and turning to international tuition to help

How to make universities more inclusive? Hire more working-class academics

Lecture recordings mean fewer students are turning up – does it matter?

Residential school literature can teach the colonial present and imagine better futures

What liberals and conservatives get wrong about free expression on university and college campuses

Mike Harris’s ‘common sense’ attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers’ strikes

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

Universities should stand up for integrity and public trust in university teaching

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