In universities, diversity is complex. Cognitive, disciplinary, methodological, cultural, geographic, experiential as well as ...

In the face of these global and local pressures to higher education, defending the academy means reasserting our public purpose, centering truth, cultivating hope, and leading in ways that are humble, ...

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 ...

Students returning to campuses across Canada this fall are finding it easier to secure housing, thanks to an increase in supply and a decline in the number of immigrants and international students.

Like most health-care organizations, Lakeridge Health, east of Toronto, faced an urgent demand to redeploy its staff and recruit new employees when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But pandemic restrictions ...

The federal government was focused on “ future skills ” and questioning the ability of universities to deliver; as a 2020 Future Skills Council report noted, “Gaps between the skills [young people] ...

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 ...

Munema Moiz waves her hands excitedly. It’s the sort of gesture that would normally catch people’s attention but, of course, we’re not in normal times. University of Toronto professor Rachel Barney’s ...

Yvonne Ko’s room on the University of British Columbia’s campus in Vancouver is almost small enough that she can reach out and touch the walls on each side. The 120-square-foot space includes a ...

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 ...