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BY ASHLEIGH VANHOUTEN | September 09 2015

Seasoned faculty members around the country offer tips for new professors.

BY VIVIAN SMITH | September 09 2015

Adam Jones wrestles with the worst that humans can inflict on each other yet remains an optimist.

BY DEBBY WALDMAN | September 09 2015

Academic copyediting program is a crucial resource to a growing number of international graduate students at U of Alberta.

BY SUZANNE BOWNESS | September 08 2015

Grad students are looking for university support to help prepare them for careers outside the professoriate.

BY JULIE CAFLEY | September 08 2015

Stories of six unfinished mandates raise concerns about governance.

BY JENNY GREEN | August 05 2015

Universities have started to think seriously about how to reach this historically large demographic – and maybe make money at the same time.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | August 05 2015

Philosophy professor Karyn Freedman took risks by using her own rape as a way of analyzing sexual violence and trauma.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | August 05 2015

We’ve canvassed Canada’s
universities to compile a list of the country’s
best campus traditions.

BY ERIN CLOW | August 04 2015

An alt-ac career is not the traditional route for a PhD, but it’s not shameful.

BY SPARROW MCGOWAN | July 31 2015

Famous Canadians tell us how one professor changed their life.

BY NATALIE SAMSON | July 21 2015

A collection of love letters from 130 poets past and present offers a slice of literary history.

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | June 30 2015

Canada’s universities have adopted a set of principles outlining their “shared commitment” to enhancing educational opportunities for indigenous students. Universities Canada, the association representing the country’s public and private not-for-profit universities, said closing the education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous students is a long-term core priority. Fewer than 10 per cent of indigenous people in […]

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | June 17 2015

Outgoing principal of Brescia University College Colleen Hanycz reflects on challenges facing women’s colleges.

BY TIM JOHNSON | June 10 2015

Scholars say the rise of automated, and increasingly autonomous, robotic technologies requires greater ethical scrutiny.

BY BECKY RYNOR | June 10 2015

From puppets to a personalized pizza box, libraries’ special collections are home to some very strange items.

BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | June 02 2015

Rebuilding the institution remains a big task for its new president.

BY ANNE KROOK | June 01 2015

How do we turn the doctoral student’s significant skills into a career outside academia?

BY RICHARD MACKENZIE | May 19 2015

A Quebec physicist responds to the president of NSERC

BY TARA SIEBARTH | May 08 2015

[View the story “Spring arrives on campus” on Storify]

BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | April 30 2015

On the contrary, the labour market is functioning as it should, says new report by the Council of Canadian Academies.