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BY MICHAEL J. STRONG | MAR 05 2021

In its new strategic plan, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research prepares for the next health-care crisis.

BY DIANA CUCUZ | FEB 26 2021

As women academics, we need to tout our accomplishments and applaud other women for doing so.

BY C. DARIUS STONEBANKS | FEB 19 2021

To work in a setting in which all of the power, opportunities, leadership and administration is primarily white is a powerful reality check.

BY BRAD NELSON | FEB 16 2021

It’s crucial that we restructure our PhD programs from beginning to end to reflect the actual – as opposed to imagined – career outcomes of our students.

BY ANDRIJANA BURAZIN, VESELIN JUNGIĆ & MIROSLAV LOVRIĆ | FEB 05 2021

I know you’re stressed, but so am I. We all need to show a little understanding, patience and co-operation.

BY JACK BAUER | JAN 29 2021

It can’t be stressed enough: fundamental research provides an essential base of knowledge on which applied research depends.

BY KIM HELLMANS, SONIA TANGUAY, SARAH TODD & MICHELLE BAULCH | JAN 25 2021

This model can be employed at any institution and can be used by instructors in their response to student requests for informal course accommodations.

BY MICHAEL O’SHEA & LEPING MOU | JAN 18 2021

An analysis of written communications related to COVID-19 at colleges and universities in China, Canada, and the United States during the first six months of the pandemic.

BY MIRJAM FINES-NEUSCHILD & BIBIANA PULIDO | JAN 12 2021

The decisions that professors make around evaluation and review – as well as in teaching and scholarly inquiry – are a product of their own interpretation of “excellence.”

BY MEGAN DOUGLAS | DEC 30 2020

Here are three ways Canadian universities can do more to help.

BY JESSICA RIDDELL | DEC 23 2020

How do we make sense of what has happened, and how do we move forward towards a post-COVID world?

BY ANGEL EVANS | DEC 11 2020

Fostering intergenerational education enriches us all, providing us with unique and diverse perspectives.

BY SAMAN RAZAVI | DEC 04 2020

Diversity is easy to define and measure, and thus manage, but equity and inclusion are not and require much greater effort.

BY GARRETT MORGAN | NOV 26 2020

There is a critical gap between what is required to respond to the pandemic on the ground and what we’re being taught in grad school.

BY CONTACT NORTH | CONTACT NORD | NOV 19 2020

Maybe – but the key question for colleges and universities is not the balance between online and face-to-face teaching, but survival.

BY ROBERT MCGILL | NOV 13 2020

Once students get a fever for writing, sometimes you have to just let it run its course – and, in certain cases, it never goes away.

BY KARINE COEN-SANCHEZ | NOV 10 2020

Only through our collective efforts to recruit and retain Black and racialized faculty members can we fully ensure the success of Black and racialized students in higher education.

BY BRIAN BIRD | OCT 29 2020

The notion that universities exist, first and foremost, to discover and impart knowledge is no longer in vogue. That’s a tragedy.

BY MICHAEL DAVIES-VENN | OCT 26 2020

Failure by the group’s membership to include a wider range of voices is a serious error for an inquiry of such global import.

BY ROWLAND LORIMER | OCT 23 2020

Exciting innovations in journal publishing worldwide are leaving us behind in terms of knowledge dissemination.