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BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | DEC 05 2016

Candidates have until January 27 to apply.

BY MICHAEL RANCIC | DEC 05 2016

Ryerson’s Eliza Chandler looks for what culture can do for disability that legislation can’t.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | DEC 05 2016

Few Canadian universities offer French-immersion programs, yet such programs abound at the primary and secondary levels. A new book looks at this scarcity and offers solutions to foster new programs.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | DEC 02 2016

Documentary-style series follows 10 students as they navigate campus and city life.

BY ANQI SHEN | NOV 30 2016

A national survey by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars highlights challenges postdocs face in Canada.

BY ANQI SHEN | NOV 28 2016

Concordia University Press is Quebec’s first fully open access scholarly press to publish in both French and English.

BY TARA SIEBARTH | NOV 25 2016

“We have not been aggressive enough in our role in innovation,” says Richard Hawkins at the annual conference of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

BY SAMIA MADWAR | NOV 23 2016

Simon Fraser University is overhauling its academic calendar. The crucial student resource, with its course schedules and important dates and deadlines, may not change substantially. But to Tara Black, a few subtle tweaks might have an immeasurable effect on the calendar’s primary users – starting with the tone. “It would be supportive versus punitive,” says […]

BY MARK CARDWELL | NOV 23 2016

New name and logo are first steps in an ambitious business and marketing strategy.

BY ANQI SHEN | NOV 22 2016

International students “would make the best future Canadians,” says immigration minister.

BY MOIRA MACDONALD | NOV 16 2016

After three years of quietly developing a model for collaboration in the classroom and on the recruiting trail, the presidents of four small, rural eastern Canadian universities have rebranded their efforts into what they are calling the “Maple League.” First coming together in 2013 under the less catchy banner of the “U4,” Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount […]

BY BRENNA BAGGS | NOV 15 2016

The region loses 1,300 people aged 20-29 each year.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | NOV 11 2016

Public must recognize academic freedom as readily as freedom of expression, says retired Concordia professor recently detained in Iran.

BY BECKY RYNOR | NOV 09 2016

At University of Waterloo’s Hack the North, 1,000 students compete to create a new program or project in a gruelling 36-hour contest.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | NOV 08 2016

A surge in allegations of sexual violence and hyper-sexualized frosh activities have, in part, inspired the study.

BY ASHLEIGH VANHOUTEN | NOV 04 2016

Eden Hennessey focuses on the positive in her latest interactive artwork at Laurier.

BY RYAN ENGLISH | NOV 04 2016

New rainbow staircase is a symbol of queer-positivity at Nanaimo campus.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | NOV 01 2016

Consent Tea brings a spoonful of Downton Abbey to sexual health education.

BY UA/AU | OCT 27 2016

The member universities of Universities Canada have approved a new bylaw that the organization says will ensure that their institutions’ policies are not discriminatory. Members were asked to support a requirement that their institutions commit to “equal treatment of all persons without discrimination” on the basis of a series of “protected grounds.” It means members […]

BY ANQI SHEN | OCT 26 2016

Gord Downie’s last tour with the Tragically Hip was far from his last act. The singer and Canadian music icon has partnered with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba to pay tribute to the thousands of indigenous children who went missing in the residential school system and who died […]