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The ban on Black students studying medicine was in effect for decades, then forgotten, and wasn’t officially repealed until just two years ago.
Mathematics and statistics instructors from across Canada have come together to launch a grassroots faculty initiative to improve student learning.
University of Victoria’s chair of transgender studies and founder of the Transgender Archives is on a mission to collect and celebrate works by transgender people for transgender people.
Queen’s University terrorism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam is no stranger to intersectoral strife.
Universities and industry groups agree the path to engineering needs to be smoother for talented young women.
Welcome to 2020! As we say goodbye to 2019, here are the stories and issues that shaped the past year in Canadian higher education. Stories that made 2019 University Affairs turns 60 Commemorating the magazine’s 60th anniversary was a fun (but daunting) project to take on. The trick was figuring out how to showcase all of […]
Some of our readers offer their tips on managing the stresses of university life.
Over the past year we’ve read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories. Here are six that stayed with us. Archives are adapting to an era of digitization and decolonization The idea for this story came out of a brainstorming session for content to include in our 60th anniversary issue. Anniversaries naturally call us […]
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.