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Drawing on post-Tiananmen Square experiences, Ruth Hayhoe says it’s better to engage with U.S. colleagues.
With a limited alumni pool and resources, small- and medium-sized universities leverage personal connections to find donors.
“I immediately fell in love with how visceral it is and how hard it is, and how it’s really like learning a language.”
This is happening just in time for the university’s 50th anniversary in 2017.
Much can be done to better support Indigenous students at all levels, she says.
Several Canadian universities have had their IT systems taken hostage over the past year.
The impact of the executive order is “real, immediate and profound,” says Universities Canada head Paul Davidson.
Faculty, students take to typewriters to create poems on demand.
Court orders adjunct professor to hand over interviews conducted as part of her PhD research.
Hundreds of academics and students have registered with GCcollab.ca.
After the flags were raised at Calgary’s city hall, a staffer at MRU wondered, “How come we don’t do this?”
Study will follow 50,000 men and women, aged 45 to 85, until 2033.
Mountains 101 is the U of A’s latest classroom-to-MOOC production.
“Don’t Stop” campaign at Royal Roads University taps mature students.
UQAM’s Jean-Hugues Roy analyzed theses and dissertations from the past 25 years to answer the age-old question: How long should it be?
A Q&A with Thierry Karsenti, Canada Research Chair in technologies in education, on why we should hold off on banning homework.
The University of Toronto Mississauga is hosting a distinguished visitor and students that have huddled around the top dog, tails wagging, are learning a few new tricks. A visit by St. John Ambulance therapy dog Grace is one of the stress-busters organized by the office of student transition during this year’s exams. The golden retriever […]
A cleaner, greener air conditioner might just be found at the bottom of a snow pile. Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have analyzed three air conditioning models that use snow as a coolant to discover which one is the most sustainable alternative to the air conditioning units found in most Canadian buildings today. […]
Ryerson University’s school of journalism recently started offering Queer Media, a course that introduces journalism and news studies students to queer history, and the ethics underpinning the reporting of LGBTQ stories. Instructor Andrea Houston has been teaching the course since September, but has been active in queer journalism since working as a reporter with the […]
Multidisciplinary group based at Dalhousie University plans to track subjects into adulthood to see what strategies lead to success.