UA: With regard to the lack of respect for the sector you mentioned, how can universities reaffirm their role in the public ...

The granting agency is steering toward a new funding model to keep intellectual property rights, and the commercial ...

The first instalment of The Campus Green – an exclusive interview with Bob Rae on international climate action and the role ...

As we prepare for the year ahead, we are excited to share some of our team’s favourite stories from 2025. University Affairs would also like to thank all of our contributors, who continue to help us ...

Thank you for this excellent piece. No argument from me, and I think that European universities, with their many research-intensive institutes, tend already to be far ahead of Canadian ones in this ...

Bipin Kumar arrived in Canada in 2014 to pursue a master’s degree in computer science at an East Coast university. With degrees already under his belt from universities in Germany and his native India ...

Scholar, activist and child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock figures academia needs to hire “a lot more people who are willing to get into trouble.” “Academia and activism should co-exist,” says Dr.

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 ...

We are a group of undergraduate and graduate students from York University connected with each other through sociology professor Cary Wu’s research methods courses. Led by Dr. Wu, we recently came ...

L’auteur et professeur Darryl Leroux travaille depuis près de deux décennies sur la dynamique du racisme et du colonialisme chez les descendants français.

Alberta’s postsecondary education system is under siege, according to many within the province’s academic community. Since the United Conservative Party (UCP) formed a majority government in April ...

Before she begins each course, Jacqueline Leighton speaks to her students about freedom of expression. Growing up in Chile as a young girl, she witnessed the 1973 coup d’état that brought dictator ...