By Bruce Walsh. There is a move afoot to make publicly funded monographs and journals Open Access (OA) – free – through the Internet. This is a revolutionary move that could lead to the vast dissemination of knowledge, a renaissance in scholarship, and help level the playing field between the haves and the have-nots. More...
By Natalie Samson. A collection of love letters from 130 poets past and present offers a slice of literary history. More...
By Rosanna Tamburri. New digital planning tool will be made available to other universities. More...
By Jennifer Polk. I’ve always had a very fuzzy view of the future. I knew there were lots of things I would be happy doing, including traditional academia, supporting research, teaching or working in industry. More...
By Jennifer Polk. I am still employed as associate director, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. My job duties have developed into a greater focus on research and writing as the focus of the institute itself has developed. I have started a webpage for articles relevant to issues in higher education called Humanities in the News. More...
By David Kent. In the spirit of openness, we need a quantifiable, binding scoring system. More...
By David Kent. This quarter has featured a series of three articles from Jonathan on helping move academic research into developing products and maximizing societal impact that form the basis of a clear strategy moving forward. More...
By Melonie Fullick. I don’t normally write quick responses to anything. It’s possibly a symptom of over-thinking, but also just a slow cogitation process; I usually have to let things sit for a while before I feel I’m ready to say something, so nothing I write in this blog is what you’d call a “hot take.” More...
By Melonie Fullick. The two systems are different, just not quite in the way a recent op-ed portrayed them.
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you may have noticed that periodically I write posts critiquing how the media cover higher education, sometimes dissecting a particular piece in detail (that’s my media studies background coming into play). More...
By Jennifer Halsall. For overtired students at the University of Calgary, salvation is at hand: a nap room to help you catch up on some much-needed rest. The nap room was a campaign promise by Kirsty McGowan, elected the student union’s vice-president of student life this past spring. She says she came up with the idea after researching mental health problems on campuses. More...
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