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A number of programs are exploring options for applied scholarship within the PhD.
Professors’ picks of underrated titles that students should be reading.
A little well-timed support can smooth the transition for first-time university students.
A new academic discipline challenges our ideas of what it means to be “sane.”
Rather than building new, refurbishing old structures saves money and preserves heritage.
A university’s coat of arms symbolizes core values and treasured links to the past.
It’s not always pretty, but idealistic students continue to affect change, be it social, economic or environmental.
Genocide, racism, intolerance – presenting tricky subjects in class doesn’t have to be an ordeal.
Seasoned faculty members around the country offer tips for new professors.
Adam Jones wrestles with the worst that humans can inflict on each other yet remains an optimist.
Grad students are looking for university support to help prepare them for careers outside the professoriate.
Universities have started to think seriously about how to reach this historically large demographic – and maybe make money at the same time.
We’ve canvassed Canada’s
universities to compile a list of the country’s
best campus traditions.
Famous Canadians tell us how one professor changed their life.
Scholars say the rise of automated, and increasingly autonomous, robotic technologies requires greater ethical scrutiny.
From puppets to a personalized pizza box, libraries’ special collections are home to some very strange items.
How do we turn the doctoral student’s significant skills into a career outside academia?
This living encyclopedia has made knowledge more accessible and more democratic than ever. Scholars need to embrace it and do all they can to support it.
All professors with PhDs in philosophy, the Groarke triplets share much more than their identical DNA.
Give up a regular paycheck and leave home for grad school? Why bother, when more graduate programs are available by distance, especially for working professionals.