Features
BY BRIAN OWENS | April 19 2023
A decade ago, Canada was at the forefront of open access publishing. Now critics say those policies are due for a drastic rewrite.
The days of the traditional, subscription-based scholarly journal seem to be numbered. Around the world, research funders are adopting ever-more expansive policies requiring the researchers they fund to make the results of their work freely accessible to the public. Canada, once a leader in this are...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/catching-up-on-open-access/
Features
BY SHARON ASCHAIEK WITH FILES FROM MOHAMED BERRADA | February 28 2024
How growing recognition of the diverse needs of students on the autism spectrum is fueling a culture change on campus.
For Emily Coombs, navigating higher education in Canada as someone with autism has come with distinct challenges. A University of Calgary graduate student who previously attended MacEwan University, the University of Alberta and the University of Victoria, she has faced...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/bridging-gaps-and-building-opportunities/
In my opinion
BY ÉMILIE PAQUIN & SUZANNE BETH | March 23 2023
Budget is just one factor that leads to a well-functioning journal.
Over the last few years, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the financial impact of open access publishing re
quirements on scholarly journals, notably in the fields of the humanities, the social sciences, the arts and literature (
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/what-makes-for-a-happy-scholarly-journal/
In my opinion
BY LE COMITÉ INTERSECTORIEL ÉTUDIANT DES FRQ | September 27 2023
En ciblant certains comportements, il est possible d’améliorer considérablement le bilan environnemental des activités de recherche sans en compromettre la qualité.
La crise écologique, qui englobe notamment le déclin de la biodiversité et le réchauffement climatique, est un sujet incontournable pour la communauté de recherche internationale, y compris au Canada. Celle-ci alimente les connaissances sur les enjeux environnementaux et participe à l’élabo...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/reduire-limpact-environnemental-de-la-recherche-une-responsabilite-partagee/
Career Advice
BY SHANNON GADBOIS | November 13 2013
Handling the transition to your sabbatical is a key to its success.
When I began my sabbatical this past January, I was unexpectedly and overwhelming cognizant of a marked imbalance in my life. With a teaching semester juxtaposed next to a sabbatical period, a dramatic shift in daily activities resulted in one of the most pressure filled and lonely times I have spen...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/try-a-six-month-sabbatical/
Career Advice
BY HANNAH LIDDLE | May 09 2023
The drive towards automation and away from a greenhouse gas-emitting economy is demanding new and evolving skills from Canada’s workforce, a report shows.
Anyone who spends time speaking with governments, attending conferences, conducting interviews, completing research, or simply opening a news site will come across the term “green” economy. Sometimes referred to as the “clean” or “net-zero” economy, this massive shift away from Canada’...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/the-future-is-green-will-your-students-be-ready/
From PhD to Life
BY MAREN WOOD | January 31 2019
A successful career transition starts with an adviser who’s supportive, encouraging, and open to different ways of defining professional victory.
This is a guest post by Joseph Fruscione, PhD. He is an editor and writing consultant in the Washington, DC area. In addition to the new book he co-edited with Continue reading, Succeeding Outside the Academy
(UP of Kansas), he’s also co-editing a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/redefining-success-after-a-phd/
Dispatches on academic freedom
BY SHANNON DEA | March 13 2020
As universities respond to COVID-19, they must be guided by their core values of social responsibility, accountability and equitable access – all of which support suspending on-campus teaching and learning.
In Gabriel García Márquez’s 1985 novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, the love-smitten protagonist Florentino orders the captain of the ship on which Florentino and his beloved are sailing to raise the flag of cholera to prevent other passengers from coming aboard. None of those on board...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/dispatches-academic-freedom/academic-freedom-in-the-time-of-coronovirus/
Features
BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | September 12 2011
When a university president leaves unexpectedly, the one who’s appointed interim leader assumes a crucial role in preparing the ground for the next president.
When the phone rings, the person who answers the call may have expected it for weeks, even months. The caller could be a friend, a former colleague or the board chair, but the message is the same: We need you. Would you consider serving as university president on a short-term basis?
It’s a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/regaining-the-helm/
Features
BY MATTHEW HALLIDAY | February 26 2020
Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
There’s more than one reason why Evan Fraser pursued academia over agriculture, but if you ask him why, he’ll probably tell this story: one afternoon in the early ’90s, a teenaged Dr. Fraser was working on his grandfather’s Niagara fruit farm in Ontario.
Late...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/agriculture-programs-change-with-the-times/