par JOSH KOZELJ | 18 avril 2024
Simon Fraser University is continuing to trim its athletic department nearly one year after axing the school’s football program.
In February, the school dismissed its
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/sfu-cuts-its-entire-sports-and-information-department-amid-budget-deficits/
Responsabilités potentielles
par JOEL RODGERS | 16 avril 2024
Even though funding remains the most requested priority, many PhDs also want professional development support.
Over the past decade, the pressures on pursuing a PhD have intensified. Inflation and the cost of living have ballooned while graduate funding has not kept pace with these economic challenges. The collapse of the academic job market in some sectors has added acute pressure on doctoral students
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/what-counts-as-support-for-phd-students/
Articles de fond
par LARRY MCCLOSKEY + JOHN MEISSNER | 11 spetembre 2013
How the best practices in working with students with learning disabilities are paving the way to improve outcomes for students who are emotionally distressed.
University campuses across Canada are struggling with a mental health tsunami that is reordering priorities in every community and educational institution. Dealing with crises and the potential for suicide has altered the lives and agendas of people working in schools, hospitals, municipalities and ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/helping-students-with-mental-health-issues/
Articles de fond
par WENDY GLAUSER | 03 décembre 2014
Across the country, people with disabilities are redefining the possible by excelling in scholarly pursuits that were once off limits to them.
Evolving attitudes, policies and technology have given rise to a generation of undergrads, graduate students and faculty members with disabilities who demand inclusive spaces, teaching styles and supports.
“More and more students with different disabilities who didn’t previously access postse...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/opening-doors-disability/
Articles de fond
par ASHLEIGH VANHOUTEN | 03 février 2016
A few of the best mobile apps found on campuses across Canada.
Mobile apps are ubiquitous on student’s phones—and while many are, arguably, for sharing images or connecting with friends, you may find a helpful university app on a student’s home screen among the others. Universities across the country are developing their own customized apps to provide stu...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/three-game-changing-apps-for-students/
Articles de fond
par SUZANNE BOWNESS | 27 spetembre 2017
Schools are also looking to encourage domestic students to benefit from international students’ presence.
As the blip-blip-bloop of the classic Skype ringtone connects me with Zack (Guanglong) Pang at Wilfrid Laurier University, it occurs to me that a little box like this on a computer screen may be the only window through which this international student has seen his family for the past few years ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/universities-take-steps-help-international-students-succeed/
Articles de fond
par SUZANNE BOWNESS | 20 février 2019
Moving beyond the traditional resumé-writing workshops, many centres are now helping students conceive of their career paths from the start of their studies.
University career centres: that’s where you go to get a tuneup on your resumé and cover letter as you’re graduating, right? Yes, just before you exit the ivory tower into the warm embrace of various employers all waiting to welcome you to the working world.
If you’re shaking your head at t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/campus-career-centres-step-up-to-better-serve-students/
Articles de fond
par RANDY BOYAGODA | 28 juin 2019
The campus novel is fiction for our times, but the best of the genre is timeless.
Articles de fond
par MOIRA MACDONALD | 08 avril 2020
Traditional in-person conferences have been criticized for a variety of reasons, but the current COVID-19 pandemic puts them in a whole new light.
Earlier this year, Orad Reshef was trying to pull his life back together after being away from his Ottawa home for 10 of the previous 14 days. First there was a conference in San Francisco. Getting home from that left him with a pocketful of reissued boarding passes tha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-sudden-urgency-of-online-academic-conferences/
Actualités
par MICHAEL RANCIC | 31 mars 2020
Psychologists surveyed hundreds of first-year students to determine how a sense of belonging and mattering affects well-being.
In the face of COVID-19, classes this winter semester have quickly wrapped up or moved online, and campuses have shut down entirely, with university administrations telling staff to work from home and, in some cases, telling students to vacate residence halls. But as campus life adjusts to social di...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/york-study-examines-link-between-mattering-and-depression-in-students/