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June 29, 2020
Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund deadline extended
On May 15, the federal government created the Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund (CRCEF) as part of a suite of temporary financial aid programs to help employers and workers through financial ...
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These centres have proven they are not mere “support” units but are crucial to the university’s mission.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning centres (TLCs), and the educational developers and instructional designers who work at them, have shown the deep value they bring to their institutions. During the crisis, they have become instructional superheroes who have not only supported an un...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/teaching-and-learning-centres-are-the-academic-heroes-of-covid-19/
Features
The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital is pioneering an open-science model that could change the way medical research is conducted across the globe.
To create a potential vaccine for SARS in 2003, a group of Canadian researchers had to break the law.
Nearly 800 people died from this viral respiratory condition and some 8,000 infections were reported across the globe. By April 2003, when the SARS Accelerated Vacci...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/could-the-montreal-neuro-herald-a-paradigm-shift-in-scientific-research/
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A senior official at the University of British Columbia has resigned after he like...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-june-22-2020/
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With a little lead time and institutional support, professors can make great online courses.
Currently, I am suffering from analysis paralysis about teaching online. I’m thinking about it; I have good ideas, but I am a little reluctant to act. Having just gone through a rough transition in another course last semester due to the pandemic, I know that my students were fairly forgiving of t...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/the-analysis-paralysis-of-online-teaching/
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Global News
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https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-june-18-2020/
Features
This May, Yukon College officially became Yukon University. The journey to becoming Canada’s first university north of the 60th parallel has been more than 45 years in the making.
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https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-shiny-new-university-in-canadas-north/
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Many universities have rolled out short-term assistance programs in response to the pandemic, but longer-term solutions are necessary to create lasting change.
The COVID-19 crisis has elevated concerns that postsecondary students, many of whom have lost jobs and access to on-campus food services, will go hungry. In response, universities and student organizations are mobilizing at impressive speed to provide
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/student-food-insecurity-a-problem-before-during-and-after-covid-19/
Responsibilities May Include
A step-by-step guide to conducting labour market research.
Experts have been anticipating a major labour market disruption for some time. Reports such as Continue reading, published by the World Economic Forum in Janu...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/building-career-resilience-during-a-pandemic/
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The Globe and Mail
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We searched the literature and consulted our colleagues from across the country for innovative approaches and resources.
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on higher education. Experiential learning (EL) programs – which allow students to gain experience, engage with the community, develop technical and interpersonal skills, and build career readiness and professional networks – have been particularly hard h...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-to-adapt-experiential-learning-activities-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
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National Observer
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Canada’s post-secondary institutions face major fin...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-june-4-2020/
Career Advice
Online teaching requires learning new skills, as well as acknowledging the types of audiences they are attempting to engage.
As academia has been forced to move online, universities and academics have scrambled to deliver conference presentations, lectures, meetings, and everything else virtually. This creates a lot of anxiety for professors who are used to having live audiences and in-person feedback. Our recent experien...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/when-it-comes-to-the-move-online-the-medium-is-the-message/
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We need to recognize that teaching remotely is far more complicated than simply putting content online.
In the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Continue reading. This has spa...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/we-will-still-be-emergency-teaching-in-fall-2020/
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With expertise in flexible, modular training through online delivery, CE units are helping to steer their institutions through the chaos of COVID-19.
COVID-19 has upended higher education as we know it, challenging Canada’s university leaders to rethink how to deliver programs in the face of a double whammy: a deep global recession and a public health crisis that prohibits conventional classroom learning for the foreseeable future. Yet, for con...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/despite-the-pandemic-the-beat-goes-on-in-continuing-education/
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May 29, 2020
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The Black Hole
The scientific community often relies on impromptu interactions to spur where the next set of experiments might go.
One of the biggest differences in academic groups in the laboratory-based sciences and other disciplines is that teams of people are generally required to execute experiments. Most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows would typically “see” their supervisor on a daily or at least weekly bas...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/covid-19-scientists-have-lost-their-passive-social-check-in/
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A group of migration scholars share how the pandemic is impacting both their personal and work lives.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, what does it mean to study migration, to be an immigrant professor or an international student separated from family, to see so much we care about, work on, and live in our lives come to a screeching halt? We pause. We ask important questions.
Alison...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/frozen-in-space-immobilities-of-international-researchers-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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When Ye En Kim came to Canada to study engineering, she was eager to practice at McGill ...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-may-20-2020/
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Video conferencing can be isolating and strange for some of your students – here are some tips to make sure everyone feels seen and heard.
In the past month I've reinvented myself as a Zoom host. I've leveraged 20 years as a facilitator, educator, and media producer with hours of experimentation and research that include facilitated meetings, family Skype gatherings, and guest teaching at my children's homeschooling chaotic classroom m...
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/staying-human-in-the-zoom-boom/