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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.

BY JENNIFER ANDREWS | JUL 30 2021

Looking at how BIPOC faculty are paid and treated when they first enter academia, and truly listening to them, would be a good first step in changing white privilege.

BY DINO SOSSI | JUL 23 2021

Weighing unrestricted expression against fostering a tolerant public sphere will test the fundamental freedoms we cherish in our democratic society.

BY ANDIE BURAZIN | JUL 19 2021

Getting students back to pre-COVID-19 standards will be a delicate act.

BY GAVIN CHARLES | JUL 13 2021

In teaching students debating skills, are we preparing them to build the world we want?

BY VIVEK GOEL | JUL 06 2021

The pandemic has made the important work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and of aggressively fighting resurgent racism at an institutional level, all the more urgent.

BY ANDRE COSTOPOULOS | JUL 05 2021

There’s no need to create a teaching schedule for the fall. Students have been telling us how to create a learning environment that makes sense. We should listen to them.

BY ANDREW MOORE | JUN 25 2021

Universities should be places for people to discover their own ways of contributing to their communities, not vocational assembly lines.

BY MARY WELLS | JUN 18 2021

Offer free tutoring in math and science to high school students to help level the playing field, suggests engineering dean.

BY PAQUITO BERNARD | JUN 07 2021

The entire university community should systematically incorporate issues of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity into introductory courses.

BY MAIRI COWAN | JUN 02 2021

A professor reconciles the push for transferrable skills in university courses with her own reasons for teaching history.