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BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | February 25 2015
The new Prince Edward Island premier – and past president of UPEI – talks about leaving a legacy.
Wade MacLauchlan’s roots in Prince Edward Island run deep. He was born and raised on the island’s north shore and completed his undergraduate training at the University of Prince Edward Island, the institution he went on to lead from 1999 to 2011. Before that, he was dean of law at the Universit...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/raising-expectations-interview-wade-maclauchlan/
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BY JENNY GREEN | August 05 2015
Les universités ont commencé à s’intéresser sérieusement à cet important groupe démographique – une initiative potentiellement lucrative.
Ne vous retournez pas – surtout ne riez pas –, mais les baby-boomers canadiens sont sur le point d’envahir les campus, au volant d’un quadriporteur vert lime, s’il le faut.
Je répète : surtout ne riez pas. Les boomers ont l’habitude d’arriver à leurs fins. Or, ces jours-ci, c...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/les-baby-boomers-debarquent/
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BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | September 08 2015
Grad students are looking for university support to help prepare them for careers outside the professoriate.
Kathryn Muller, Jonathan Turner and Erin Clow are three PhD holders who use the skills they honed in their doctoral studies on a daily basis at a university.
They just don’t work as professors.
Dr. Muller oversees a team of professional fundraisers at McGill University. Dr. Turner is a c...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/whats-up-with-alt-ac-careers/
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BY MOIRA FARR | March 29 2016
Les auteures d’un nouvel ouvrage remettent en question ce qu’elles appellent le « rythme effréné » de la vie universitaire contemporaine.
Dans leur nouveau livre, The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (University of Toronto Press), Maggie Berg et Barbara Seeber appliquent les principes du mouvement slow au milieu universitaire. Mmes Berg et Seeber sont professeures de littéra...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/lenter-en-enseignement/
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BY MOIRA MACDONALD | April 06 2016
What some universities are doing to weave indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledge into the fabric of their campuses.
It was September 1987 and Blaine Favel was sitting in a lecture hall at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., a long way from his home on Poundmaker Cree Nation, northwest of Saskatoon. Already he had an advocate’s leanings honed from growing up in a family of chiefs and protected by the thi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/indigenizing-the-academy/
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BY BECKY RYNOR | September 26 2016
Researchers at universities across the country are struggling, says Dr. Woodgett of Toronto’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute.
When the Canadian Institutes of Health Research attempted to reform how it awards grants earlier this year, the backlash from the science community was swift, vociferous and unprecedented, according to prominent cell biologist Jim Woodgett. A professor in the department of medical biophysics at ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/jim-woodgett-wrote-open-letter-blasting-cihr-reforms-comes-next/
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BY BECKY RYNOR | October 18 2016
Selon Jim Woodgett de l’Institut de recherche Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum à Toronto, la situation pose problème pour les chercheurs universitaires de partout au pays
Quand les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) ont entrepris de réformer les modalités d’attribution des subventions plus tôt cette année, le milieu scientifique a réagi avec une célérité et une véhémence encore jamais vues, estime Jim Woodgett, éminent biologiste cell...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/pourquoi-jim-woodgett-denonce-les-reformes-des-irsc/
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BY DAVID P. BURNS & ANYA GOLDIN | November 16 2016
Créer son propre contenu ou se tourner vers des vidéos et des balados professionnels?
Au cours des deux dernières années, le département d’études en enseignement de l’Université polytechnique Kwantlen s’est efforcé de repousser les limites de ce qu’un petit département peut faire pour créer des cours en ligne et des ressources numériques attrayantes. Dans le cadre d...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/planifier-le-contenu-des-cours-en-ligne/
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BY ADAM CRYMBLE | January 23 2017
An expat explains how a temporary leave to study in the U.K. turned into a life abroad – and what the government could do to bring him back.
Growing up in small-town Ontario, I always had a nagging feeling that Canadians who moved abroad were traitors. They had shunned our country for monetary gain, or sunshine or fame. But I’ve become one of those people – part of the nation’s brain drain – and I can assure you that it was entir...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/canadas-accidental-brain-drain/
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BY WENDY GLAUSER | August 01 2018
Campus support programs are helping a diverse set of students to succeed in a system that wasn’t designed for them.
Dominique Oliver-Dares remembers being a first-year undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, looking around at the other students in her “humongous” introductory classes and seeing only a handful of Black students like her spread out around the room. “It was very isolating,” she recall...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/make-way-for-the-non-traditional-student/
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BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | August 08 2018
The job can be challenging, all-consuming and even isolating – but also rewarding.
A week after becoming head of the department of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, a position that would eventually lead him in 2016 to his current role as dean of the university’s Ontario Agricultural College, Rene Van Acker sent a short email to his own former department head, Murray...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/untangling-what-it-means-to-be-a-dean/