BY MATTHEW SCRIBNER | March 29 2016
In my opinion
BY MITCH DIAMANTOPOULOS | March 07 2017
La réalité n’a plus la cote.
Plus besoin du dictionnaire de la novlangue de 1984 pour se rendre compte
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Oxford English Dictionary a récemment désigné post-truth («
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/la-verite-fait-place-la-propagande/
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BY BART DE BAERE & ELICIA MAINE | September 18 2017
We advocate for a harmonized intellectual property policy based on the creator-owned model.
In today’s global knowledge economy, Canada needs to foster policies that encourage ambitious science research and the commercial translation of resulting inventions into innovation. The recently completed review of Canada’s science funding framework, commissioned by federal Minister of Science ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/canada-needs-national-overhaul-university-ip-policies/
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BY JULIA M. WRIGHT | November 06 2017
Canada is hemorrhaging early career research capacity.
For a generation now, our PhD graduates have struggled with a shrinking academic job market in Canada, many of them in under-compensated teaching jobs with little support for research, or in non-academic positions. The decline in academic jobs has been addressed primarily as a graduate student issue...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/invest-phds-faculty-renewal/
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BY ADRIANE MACDONALD & NICOLE EVA | February 26 2018
And here’s how we can do it.
Academia is unique in that professionals with highly specialized expertise, who are paid by public institutions, write articles and provide peer reviews to corporations who profit greatly without giving back to the research enterprise. In any other industry, such experts would charge up to $1,500/ho...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/time-stand-academic-publishing-industry/
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BY NICOLA KOPER | May 29 2018
Les femmes ne devraient pas se sentir obligées d’accepter un poste de direction pour combler l’écart entre les hommes et les femmes, car elles le font déjà tout simplement en évoluant dans le milieu universitaire.
J’ai récemment assisté à une conférence où, à la fin d’une table ronde, une de mes étudiantes aux cycles supérieurs, Chantal Maclean, a levé la main et posé la question suivante : « Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas de femmes au sein de votre groupe d’experts? » Nous avons toutes les d...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/les-pieges-de-la-parite-professionnelle/
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BY KAREN ROBSON & REANA MAIER | October 08 2018
A phenomenon called “ethics creep” is discouraging researchers rather than protecting study participants.
Researchers working with human subjects in North America and beyond are very familiar with ethics protocols required by institutions of higher education, protocols rightly put in place to minimize harm to research participants.
In Canada, individual higher education institutions have ethical juri...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/research-ethics-are-we-minimizing-harm-or-maximizing-bureaucracy/
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BY JULIE-CHRISTINE COTTON, ALEXA MARTIN-STOREY & SÉRÉ BEAUCHESNE LÉVESQUE | December 11 2019
Depuis novembre, les étudiants et le personnel de l’Université de Sherbrooke peuvent choisir leur nom, prénom et genre apparaissant sur des documents officiels.
Le mois de novembre 2019 a marqué un tournant important pour les personnes trans et non binaires qui fréquentent l’Université de Sherbrooke. Après trois années d’échanges et de délibérations avec le Bureau de la registraire, toute personne employée ou étudiante pourra désormais être ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/un-petit-pas-dans-une-universite-un-grand-pas-pour-lhumanite/