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30 août 2016

Carleton University must acknowledge rape culture

By Madeline Ashby. Rape culture exists.
These are the three little words that administrators at Carleton University are having such trouble including in their sexual violence policy. The university, like all other Ontario universities and colleges, is responsible for writing the stand-alone sexual violence policy before January, in compliance with the Sexual Violence and Workplace Harassment Action Plan, also known as Bill 132. The aim of the bill is to support survivors and stop sexual violence and harassment. More...

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30 août 2016

Algonquin abandons Saudi Arabia for the wrong reasons

Algonquin College is ending its operations in Saudi Arabia, citing financial reasons. What it didn’t point to – though it should have been a major factor in the decision – is the gross human rights record of the Saudi government and its treatment of women.
They were neither allowed to teach, nor attend, the campus in Jazan, a port city on the Red Sea. More...

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30 août 2016

Study shows male academics cite themselves more

A recent working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves.
When an academic writes a research paper, it is common practice to give citations for various facts and assertions. It is not enough, for instance, to simply assert that “the global rise of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole is an evolutionary epic with many subplots.”
You need to cite biologist Corrie S. Moreau’s 2008 paper on “Unraveling the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole” to make that argument. More...

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30 août 2016

Stagnant economy forces Alberta post-secondary schools to get creative with fundraising

By Juris Graney. Alberta’s stagnant economy has post-secondary institutions scrambling to retain existing donors and encourage new ones.
Reported gifts, contributions and fundraising dropped 35 per cent — $352 million — between 2015 and 2016, with many of the province’s colleges the hardest hit.
Having survived the May wildfire that devastated Fort McMurray and with oilsands companies struggling with slumping oil prices, Keyano College is facing a tough start to the academic year. More...

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30 août 2016

Ottawa is smart to save a vital research project

It’s hard to believe the Experimental Lakes Area research facility near Kenora was placed on the federal government’s chopping block in the 2012 budget. The collection of 58 lakes gave scientists from around the world access to a pristine ecosystem where they could conduct key research into the effects on lakes of acid rain, mercury, phosphates, climate change, and even synthetic hormones in birth control pills found in sewage. More...

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30 août 2016

One in six top universities is led by a woman

By Ellie Bothwell. Just 17 per cent of the world’s top 200 universities are led by a woman, according to an analysis of Times Higher Education World University Rankings data.
Only 33 of the top 200 universities in the 2015-16 ranking are female-led and two women hold acting leader positions. More...

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30 août 2016

Algonquin College pulls plug on money-losing Saudi Arabian campus

On Thursday, the college said it plans to pull out of the country before the start of the new school year.
The Ottawa-based post-secondary institution began operating a men-only campus in Jazan, on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern coast, in 2013. It was part of a five-year deal with a Saudi government agency. More...

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30 août 2016

More indigenous judges needed in lower courts to develop skills for Supreme Court

By Tonda MacCharles. Canada’s top judge says the best way to one day see an aboriginal person named to the Supreme Court of Canada is for governments to appoint more indigenous judges to lower courts. More...

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30 août 2016

LU grads will 'Teach for Canada' in fly-in First Nations village

By Heidi Ulrichsen. A couple that recently graduated with teaching degrees from Laurentian University will be spending the next two years teaching in a fly-in First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario. More...

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30 août 2016

University of Waterloo must resolve the root causes of the pay gap between male and female faculty members

A University of Waterloo study has found there is a wage gap between male and female faculty members. It’s done the right thing by giving female professors a raise, but the wrong thing in not making it retroactive and not researching the root causes of the gap. More...

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