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BY CHARLENE LEWIS-SUTHERLAND & SANIA HAMEED | NOV 24 2021

A recent CACUSS panel shed light on the realities that many racialized staff face.

BY AMEIL JOSEPH, JULIET DANIEL, BONNY IBHAWOH, JAMAL DEEN, DANIEL COLEMAN, ALPHA ABEBE, FAITH OGUNKOYA & LYDIA KAPIRIRI | NOV 17 2021

How McMaster University’s Black Excellence Cohort hiring initiative was formed.

BY JAMES SOUTHWORTH | NOV 09 2021

While it is necessary to educate students on academic integrity and academic misconduct, these two concepts are often conflated.

BY BLANE HARVEY, ALAIN BOURQUE, YING SYUAN HUANG & ANNE DEBRABANDERE | NOV 05 2021

COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’

BY JESSE POPP | OCT 29 2021

Many Indigenous scholars forge ahead to passionately contribute to systemic change; however, as requests mount, and there’s not enough time to go around, we are stretched incredibly thin.

BY KATHLEEN BORTOLIN | OCT 28 2021

Determine early on, with a sort of resolve that you may have to fake at first, that you are absolutely worthy and so is your work.

BY PATRICK SANAGHAN | OCT 25 2021

Lessons learned from successful campus implementation efforts.

BY SHANNON DEA | OCT 22 2021

We should use what we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to make university study and work more equitable and inclusive.

BY JOHANNE JEAN & SOPHIE D’AMOURS | OCT 21 2021

An invitation to decolonize universities through collaboration.

BY JIM DAVIES | SEP 28 2021

A cognitive science professor finds little difference between using “the Netflix model” versus “the Disney+ model.”

BY LISA HOWELL, KIERA BRANT-BIRIOUKOV & NICHOLAS NG-A-FOOK | SEP 27 2021

Reconciliation in education begins by acknowledging how educational systems — in particular, our universities, teacher education programs and curricula — have reproduced systemic anti-Indigenous racisms across Canada.

BY TREENA ORCHARD | SEP 22 2021

Orientation week assaults persist because they are normalized as part of university culture.

BY LYNN BOSETTI | SEP 20 2021

Hostile exchanges are quickly coming to the forefront of issues confronting human resources departments.

BY SAMUEL E. TROSOW & JULIE LOWE | SEP 10 2021

Campus mandates are not forced vaccinations. Mandates offer choices: receive or decline the vaccine.

BY KAREN BOURRIER | SEP 02 2021

The social network website Goodreads provides insight into what some women are reading.

BY JOHANNA LEWIS | AUG 26 2021

The lack of any structural acknowledgement about the toll that COVID is taking on parents and caregivers is a grave failing at the institutional level.

BY ROHENE BOUAJRAM | AUG 24 2021

Universities need people, policies and protocols that take into account how to support the success of BIPOC students from an equity, not equality, perspective.

BY SIBO CHEN | AUG 17 2021

Ryerson University needs to embrace an approach that prioritizes the public interest and truly listens to public conversations about decolonization.

BY YVES LABERGE | AUG 10 2021

Academic freedom means academics can reflect on any topic, but can they fuel racist thinking?

BY JAIGRIS HODSON, CHANDELL GOSSE & GEORGE VELETSIANOS | AUG 06 2021

What happens when someone outside of the university community co-ordinates a mass email campaign demanding the firing of a faculty member? University policies need to cover this.

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