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Academic mentorship, International issues, Students, Teaching and learning, Tuition and student fees

The importance of supporting international students with financial literacy education

Vuong Hoang Tran and Victoria Handford, Thompson Rivers University

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has indicated that financial knowledge is a central life skill for participation in modern […]

Collective bargaining, Public policy

Retirement options for Canadians have changed dramatically

Thomas Klassen, York University

The plan by the Ontario government to reduce the wages of professors at age 71 illustrates the dramatic changes in the relationship […]

Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Université de l’Ontario français: a 21st-century university

Marc L. Johnson, Francophone Hub of Knowledge and Innovation

Ontario’s French community has been asking for a university governed by and for Francophones. Even without the support of the Ontario government, […]

Funding

University funding in Ontario and the implications of the new performance-based funding model, a discussion

Ben Lewis

This past spring, faculty from across Ontario gathered in Toronto for the OCUFA Policy Exchange. The conference was organized to help set […]

Libraries, Online education, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

Are books ready for the dustbin of history?

Janet Miron and Joan Sangster, faculty members at Trent University

Are books a condition of our labour? Do we need libraries with stacks and physical collections? Recent discussions within libraries across the […]

Free speech and expression rights, Teaching and learning

Mentorship Matters: The Case for Graduate Professional Development

Reinhart Reithmeier & Christopher Kelleher

Today, the majority of PhD graduates will not become university professors. Two reasons for this are glaringly simple: professors are not retiring […]

Funding, Public policy

Performance funding: The burden of proof

Graeme Stewart

When a policy is proposed, the burden of proof lies with the people making the proposal. They need to explain why the […]

Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source

Open Access and the Public Purse

Julia M. Wright

Last year, we were introduced to a “Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy,” put forward by NSERC and SSHRC to harmonize their requirements […]

Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source

Open season on academics: My brush with predatory publishing

Gary Genosko

One morning I opened my email to find that I had become editor-in-chief of an academic journal. Well, ‘chief editor’ to be […]

Politics, Research and innovation

Academic Research vs. Political Propaganda: Lessons from the Fraser Institute’s Study of Minority-Language Education

Edmund A. Aunger

In 2012 the Fraser Institute published a 138-page study entitled Official Language Policies of the Canadian Provinces: Costs and Benefits in 2006 […]