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BY PHIL OCTETES | AUG 18 2015

Ending the relationship might allow both partners finally to develop and grow.

BY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE | AUG 12 2015

Universities must work together to achieve this goal.

BY ERIN CLOW | AUG 04 2015

An alt-ac career is not the traditional route for a PhD, but it’s not shameful.

BY ARVIND GUPTA AND DEBORAH BUSZARD | JUL 16 2015

Universities and colleges have a unique capacity and responsibility for health and well-being.

BY BRUCE WALSH | JUL 08 2015

There is a move afoot to make publicly funded monographs and journals Open Access (OA) – free – through the Internet. This is a revolutionary move that could lead to the vast dissemination of knowledge, a renaissance in scholarship, and help level the playing field between the haves and the have-nots. I’m for it! But […]

BY ANDREW PARK | JUN 23 2015

Or, how a professor decides to enter politics.

BY BRIAN STEVENSON | JUN 17 2015

Brazil understands that investing in international study is a path to global competitiveness.

BY BRUCE TSUJI | JUN 16 2015

The newer iterations are a much better use of the medium.

BY DONNA KOTSOPOULOS | JUN 09 2015

How the liberal arts made me better at mathematics.

BY KEVIN MCCABE | JUN 04 2015

There are not many things in A.D. 2015 which can make an adult blush. Certainly, no one seems to be embarrassed these days by the proverbial “embarrassment of riches.” In fact, the one constant in our society is that nearly everybody would be most embarrassed by a shortage of funds, whether culpable or not. My […]

BY RICHARD MACKENZIE | MAY 19 2015

A Quebec physicist responds to the president of NSERC

BY DOUG MANN | MAY 11 2015

Why can’t students be more like their professors?

BY PAUL FORSTER | MAY 04 2015

Broadening the role of humanities education is laudable. How we get there is another matter.

BY MICHAEL DONALDSON, JENNY RYAN AND TANYA SAMMAN | APR 28 2015

More choice for authors of scholarly publications is central to the new policy

BY MARK MERCER | APR 20 2015

On what grounds should academic decisions be made?  I mean decisions about hiring, tenure, and promotion, decisions about curricula and standards, about styles of teaching, about admitting students? On academic grounds alone is one answer, the answer I favour.  Another answer is on grounds also of diversity, equity, or inclusiveness. So why not, when making […]

BY RALPH MARTIN | APR 13 2015

Sometimes, delaying the university experience is the best move.

BY CATHERINE GIDNEY | APR 06 2015

Babies rarely work to their mother’s timetable or a conference schedule.

BY CHRIS BARKER | APR 01 2015

Reverence isn’t what liberal arts students most need. To start with, they need to learn how to use facts and think independently.

BY ALYSSIA FOGARTY | MAR 25 2015

There’s a price to pay to attend university; there’s another to pay to succeed once we’re in.

BY JONATHAN SILIN | MAR 13 2015

Owning the ambition to reach non-specialist readers is the first step in making it happen.

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