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Canada is a leader in technology to capture and store carbon dioxide, although some view it as only a stopgap in our move to a carbon-free future.
Small steps can make a big difference to engaging students in their own assessment.
For many, leaving academia to start a family is a one-way trip – a derailment condescendingly referred to as “the mommy track.”
A visitor who hasn’t set foot on a campus for many years would be impressed by the wide array of services dedicated to helping students succeed nowadays, according to this excerpt from Course Correction: A Map for the Distracted University.
Researchers and funders are increasingly focusing on how to prepare for a changed – and changing – climate.
Many universities lack adequate policies on how to deal with cyberbullying, leading to real-life consequences for some targeted academics.
The conversation about race in the profession is heating up. Here’s why.
None has landed a tenure-track job, and their lives have had plenty of struggle and uncertainty. But, their narratives point to multiple career paths branching out from the PhD.
They affirm that universities have a vital role to play in helping society navigate through the deepest challenges of our time, from climate change to the dangers of misinformation and rising intolerance.
To mark the magazine’s 60th anniversary, current editor Léo Charbonneau sits down with the magazine’s two preceding editors to look back on the issues, events and personalities covered in its pages over the years.
“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.”
Seven of this year’s cohort recount impromptu situations with their students that led them to reflect deeply on what they do.
These programs offer international students, and their host families in Canada, the chance for a real cultural exchange.
The behind-the-scenes crew that keeps a campus the size of a small city up and running.
The campus novel is fiction for our times, but the best of the genre is timeless.
Canada’s “queen of giraffes” – denied tenure because she was a woman, despite her groundbreaking research – finally gets the recognition she deserves.
In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
The filmmaker and founder of York University’s Stereoscopic 3D Lab picked up the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual and Media Arts earlier this year.
For her thesis project, education grad Meghan Parker made an autobiographical graphic novel that argues for drawing to be recognized as a mode of scholarship.
Though often viewed with skepticism, when done well, these plans can help to set an institution’s path.