The economic, civic and intellectual ends of a university education do not need to be placed in opposition to one another. A university education at its best will be attentive to all these ends.
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In Ontario and in Alberta, university decisions about balancing free expression and protection from harm will be an important test of recent university policy shifts pertaining to free expression.
Recognizing and accrediting students’ prior learning and competencies is one way universities can tweak business-as-usual approaches.
We ought to worry that the pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to disseminating knowledge.
In a world where students can attend any university from their living rooms, universities need a compelling answer to the question: “Why should students come here?”
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Concordia University Research Chair, Maker culture; Professor, Educational Technology, Concordia University
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Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and Professor of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning/Lecturer in Strategic Management, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Peacock Postdoctoral Fellow in Pedagogy, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Special Adviser to the President, EDID (Curriculum Transformation) and Professor, School of Professional Communication, Toronto Metropolitan University
