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Universities and colleges that seek to grow their student enrolments have an obligation to address student housing.

The choice about whether or not to disclose a mental health condition to colleagues or managers, or to share a personal mental illness story with students, includes a number of complex factors.

Focusing on online learning as the problem means lost opportunities to identify solutions and supports for student well-being, which could then be designed into online, in-person or mixed forms of learning.

They have a responsibility to teach users how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.

While academic freedom itself might sound like a unique notion, granting special tools or rights to specific professions is rather commonplace.

Universities need to offer planned socializing for students who entered programs after 2020 and are less likely to know other people in their cohort.

For a consumer, for instance, making the switch to an electric vehicle is a difficult decision.

The gender pay gap for faculty in Canadian universities is significant and persistent.

Universities and colleges need better, more easily accessible and culturally competent mental health services targeted to the needs of international students.

While there is no doubt that the Ukraine crisis benefits from expertise in fields like political science and economics, many journalists and public commentators have been using skills or discussing subjects associated with the humanities.

The full extent of the damage on scholars and research will not be known for some time, but predictions are grim.

Researchers in a survey said they don’t want to delay their tenure review but have the criteria for it shift.

What it’s like to get older? A course on the psychology of aging helped students gain empathy and curiosity.

Many Indigenous scholars forge ahead to passionately contribute to systemic change; however, as requests mount, and there’s not enough time to go around, we are stretched incredibly thin.

Reconciliation in education begins by acknowledging how educational systems — in particular, our universities, teacher education programs and curricula — have reproduced systemic anti-Indigenous racisms across Canada.

Orientation week assaults persist because they are normalized as part of university culture.

Campus mandates are not forced vaccinations. Mandates offer choices: receive or decline the vaccine.

The social network website Goodreads provides insight into what some women are reading.

Ryerson University needs to embrace an approach that prioritizes the public interest and truly listens to public conversations about decolonization.

What happens when someone outside of the university community co-ordinates a mass email campaign demanding the firing of a faculty member? University policies need to cover this.