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In what was NOT an April Fools Day joke, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted Professor Stewart Elgie at our April 1st Big Thinking lecture on Parliament Hill. You can access a podcast of the lecture here on the...

Marlene Pomrenke, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor The following narratives describe the ways in which female graduate students see mentoring as essential to their academic success. As one woman stated, “Having a responsive and engaged...

Over the past few weeks, some of our Equity Matters content has featured posts exploring the issues behind mentoring in the academy, including a podcast from Minister Faust and pieces about mentoring within one's discipline and an unconventional...

Engaged scholarship, Knowledge mobilization, Social innovation - all of these terms have been gained prominence in the past few years as ways to describe how researchers and scholars can connect with communities. Regardless of your preferred term, it...

Carol Tator, York University Guest Contributor “Who are we in the university…? What do we represent? Whom do we represent? Are we responsible? For what and to whom? If there is a university responsibility, it at least begins with the moment when a...

Vanaja Dhruvarajan, Carleton University Guest Contributor Universities are one of the most important sites of knowledge production. Open and inclusive dialogue contributes generously to the knowledge commons . It allows all of us to take advantage of...

Jeffrey G. Reitz, University of Toronto Guest Contributor Multiculturalism has been a cornerstone of Canadian policy for almost 40 years, but internationally, particularly since 9/11 and in light of inter-ethnic conflicts in Europe resulting from...

Christine Overall, Queen’s University Guest Contributor Naïma Atef Amed has twice been forced out of government-funded French language classes for new immigrants in Montreal. The reason is that she wears a niqab , a face veil chosen by some Muslim...