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Guilty: Student Victims and Ann Coulter’s Assault on the University of Western Ontario
Shortly after her visit to the University of Western Ontario, media outlets began to document the more controversial aspects of Ann Coulter.
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The promises and potential of the scholarship of teaching and learning: moving slowly along a fascinating path
Research into teaching and learning might confirm that some widely-used pedagogies are not effective. For some, it might seem better just not to go there.
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Poems in Newfoundland Time
Dr. Judith P. Robertson is a retired professor from the University of Ottawa who currently finds pleasure reading, writing and painting on the Southern shore of Newfoundland.
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Performance Pressure
Are New Faculty At-Risk of “Letting Themselves Go” due to the Demands of their Profession?
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Mentor: Someone Whose Hindsight Can Become Your Foresight
When done properly, mentorship plays an important role in graduate student success. Mentoring relationships encourage the transfer of relevant knowledge, skills and, competencies that will allow graduate students to be successful during their studies and in their professional careers.
READ MORETeaching Mentorship Matters
Learning how to teach is an important process of academic life. But when should it begin? How does it happen? Who should be involved? Who is responsible?
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The Academic P3 and the University as Virtual Enterprise
In business, writes McMaster University’s Marc Ouellette, the virtual enterprise reduces competition while increasing standardization, an outcome antithetical to academic excellence. But the model is upon us, and that has implications for faculty.
READ MOREUnpacking the teaching-research nexus and its influence on academic practice
Brad Wuetherick, Director of Undergraduate Student Services in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta looks at how rethinking the teaching-research nexus might enhance both the student and faculty experience of higher education.
READ MORESeeking tenure? How junior scholars should navigate troubled departmental waters
Universities most often respond to junior faculty members’ concerns about tenure and the tenure process with workshops offering tips and strategies for how to conduct their work lives optimally pre-tenure and how to prepare the best case for winning tenure. While these workshops are helpful, they assume a basic meritocratic structure, uniformity of objectivity, and fairness across departments, an assumption that is more myth than reality.
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Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Technology
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.
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