July 30, 2020 | : The higher education community went into a collective uproar following the ICE guidelines that would have deported international students whose universities go to an entirely online format. Many on social media and in news outlets were writing about the topic. Colleges and universities joined a collective lawsuit against the federal […]
July 28, 2020 | : by Dr. Beverly Lindsay and Dr. Yolanda Moses When we began our Ford Foundation grant, “Women and University Leadership in Post-Conflict and Transitional Societies” in 2015, we could not envision addressing the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on universities and women leaders. Nor would we have anticipated reading
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The paper published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education reveals a range of approaches and offers suggestions for improvement. Sarah Forgie was working as vice-provost, learning initiatives, at the University of Alberta – a portfolio that includes a focus on faculty teaching awards – when her curiosity got the better of her. Designed to
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Scientific publishing is experiencing major changes these days, with increased production of scientific data, open-access publications and online prepublication. Can these changes last? Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an explosion in the production of scientific articles and data. Publishers have geared up to publish content at an unprecedented rate, and to
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The new curriculum has also been adapted to address risks associated with COVID-19. University of Toronto researchers aim to equip doctors with the knowledge and tools to better care for LGBTQ+ patients, as COVID-19 further widens health inequities. “Queer Canadians live shorter, less healthier lives than cisgender, heterosexual Canadians,” says U of T researcher Miranda
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As part of the international Strike for Black Lives and #ShutDownSTEM, Canadian researchers stopped work as usual on June 10 to dedicate the day to confronting anti-Black racism. When Chanda Prescod-Weinstein lived in Toronto during graduate school, she resided in the building next to where, 11 years later, Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell 24 stories to her
Struggling to juggle myriad responsibilities, “the easiest thing to put off … is research,” says one professor. University of Alberta associate professor Carla Prado colour-coded her overwhelming number of work-from-home tasks on a white board. The next time she looked at her to-do list, her toddler had doodled all over it, making it unreadable. Previously,
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