Universities can support mature students by addressing stigma and ageism, creating a sense of community and adapting programs to suit their multiple roles.
If you feel like you are struggling with your mental health, re-connect with a trusted friend, family member or peer.
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The transition to a new school year will be an important time for students to focus on strategies for fostering positive mental health and well-being, and recognizing signs that help may be needed.
To build more inclusive spaces, BIPOC students have a critical role shaping campus justice, equity and diversity resources.
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Universities can draw on health research about patient/health-care practitioner shared decision-making to centre the voices of BIPOC students when creating policies and practices to dismantle racism.
Universities need to offer planned socializing for students who entered programs after 2020 and are less likely to know other people in their cohort.
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Students in an international survey said they really missed chances to be together in person for campus-related activities, not only due to academic concerns.
People gather outside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in Toronto for a rally led by current and former international students calling for changes to immigration rules during COVID-19 in September 2020.
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International students are not only ideal candidates for settlement in Canada, they’re also vital to our prosperity. So why is it so difficult for them to come to Canada, especially those from Africa?
The Librarian - Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1562).
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Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.
People gather as a totem pole is raised at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., in April 2017.
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In the 19th century, British colonial practices of using land to fund universities was a fragmented, but far-reaching, pattern of institutional development.
The gender pay gap for faculty in Canadian universities is significant and persistent.
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Over the course of a career and retirement, gender pay gaps lead to a difference of roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors relative to their male counterparts.
Nigerian journalists protesting on 25 April against the continuous closure of public universities in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Ebba Ossiannilsson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Muhammad Zuhdi, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and Stephen Dobson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Students once might have been the main clients of higher education, but today communities, industries and the government demand the ear of the university.
Universities can be hostile, overwhelming and unwelcoming places for many First Nations Peoples working in academia. More needs to be done to ensure culturally safe workplaces.
With academic freedom comes moral responsibility. Men within New Zealand universities – and beyond – must challenge misogynistic abuse of their women colleagues and not stay silent.
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demonstrate against the war in Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France.
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Today’s students are part of a generation demanding society-wide change in the culture that perpetuates sexual violence, and the students expect their universities to lead the way.
COVID-19 planning needs to take disability justice seriously. Universities must design courses to be accessible to all learners, and offer ongoing remote learning.