As a little boy, I accepted the conventional wisdom surrounding the doctorate. A PhD, I imagined, represented the summit of intellectual achievement. Those who possessed it seemed to belong to a ...

On August 5, 2026, the Government of Canada, Department of Heritage released the first of two reports about campus antisemitism and student experiences (CASE). This landmark report described the ...

The two authors of this article spent years sitting across from one another at the bargaining table. One of us, Tracey Jandrisits, represented the University of Guelph administration. The other, Herb ...

My father retired around the age of 56, a decision that completely transformed him. He enjoyed his job, but retirement allowed him to fully dedicate himself to his ...

So the big shift away from the CCV is finally coming. What are the rules for doing narrative CVs well? In the Canadian context, the best comparable we have to a narrative CV is the “most significant ...

ChatGPT – the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot – has sparked heated debates in academia about the possible rise of academic misconduct. It is encouraging to see that teaching and learning ...

Cheating has changed. It’s on the rise as learning takes place in an increasingly digital environment that includes remote exam proctoring and artificial intelligence software that can write essays, ...

Anyone walking through a bustling university campus is bound to encounter a vibrant sense of community. But for those elite few, working hours on end in the lab conducting the research that drives the ...

Universities have become very good at creating policies and procedures to deal with misconduct. These are operationalized through equity offices, research integrity processes, ombudspersons, ...

When Prime Minister Mark Carney received a rare standing ovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, it wasn’t just for his diplomatic courage in calling out the collapse of the global ...

Canada has a long history of underperforming on measures of private-sector spending on research and development, and failing to capitalize on the commercial potential of scientific discoveries made in ...

Last month, I urged that we must better understand academic freedom if we wish to support the scholarly mission of universities and the scholarly personnel charged with advancing that mission. In this ...