The national, pan-university program is backed by $1.2 million from the RBC Foundation as part of RBC Future Launch. The initiative is led by Professor聽Carl E. James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education. 91亚色 is launching a three-year initiative to enhance the representation of Black youth at universities […]
The Sept. 29 edition of the Scholars鈥 Hub @ Home speaker series features Associate Professor Sarah Barrett from 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education with a discussion titled 鈥淭he key to equity and inclusion in online classrooms: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.鈥 Equity was one of the first casualties of change when schools closed in March 2020 and teachers and students were […]
Professors Burkard Eberlein (Schulich), Sapna Sharma (science), Cheryl van Daalen-Smith (health, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) and Qiang Zha (education) have been appointed 91亚色 Provostial Fellows. Appointed for one year, each of the recipients will work to enhance collegial capacity at an institutional level to advance the priorities of the University Academic Plan (UAP) […]
Faculty members at 91亚色 are invited to participate in a series of three free webinars that focus on teaching with Zoom. The webinar series is hosted by University Professor Emeritus聽Ron Owston聽and begins Aug. 26. Each webinar will run one hour in an interactive format and present relevant information on teaching with Zoom. The series […]
Academics from 91亚色's Faculty of Education have joined forces to redefine conventional notions of leadership through the UnLeading Project, a newly launched website and podcast series that asks its audience to question the assumptions they have about leadership and the ways they have been socialized into thinking about and enacting it. It promotes the […]
A long-running annual conference that brings together stakeholders in education to evaluate educational beliefs, policies and practices will continue this year in a virtual format. From Aug. 23 to 25, the Faculty of Education Summer Institute, FESI 2021 鈥 Reimagining and Restructuring Educational Pipelines, will explore the many ways that social hierarchies are reproduced within educational […]
91亚色 Vice-President Equity, People and Culture Sheila Cote-Meek issues the following announcement to the community: La version fran莽aise suit la version anglaise. Boozhoo, kwe kwe, bonjour and warm greetings, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Susan D. Dion to the inaugural role of associate vice-president Indigenous initiatives, effective Sept. 1. Professor Dion is […]
This year鈥檚 recipients of the 2021 President's University-Wide Teaching Awards are being honoured for their innovation and commitment, as well as for having significantly enhanced the quality of learning by 91亚色 students. The President's University-Wide Teaching Awards are chosen from four categories: full-time faculty with 10 or more years of teaching experience, full-time faculty with […]
One of the most anticipated events of the academic year, the 91亚色 Research Awards Celebration, took place May 11. While the event was held virtually due to ongoing pandemic restrictions, the format still offered a wonderful opportunity for researchers to pay tribute to their colleagues and applaud the recipients of the 2021 President鈥檚 Research Awards. […]
91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor聽Deborah Britzman, in the Faculty of Education, has published her ninth book,聽Anticipating Education: Concepts for Imagining Pedagogy with Psychoanalysis. Britzman is the Tier 1 91亚色 Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformation and focuses her research on the histories of psychoanalysis with education. Anticipating Education is addressed to teachers, professors and students […]
Seeking to demystify educational development as a career path, a pair of educators created a novel, online resource. They鈥檙e hoping to spur an interactive and dynamic discussion where those new to the field, or those considering this career, can gain vital insights.
After winning a major grant from SSHRC, History Professor Carolyn Podruchny leads a study on Indigenous ways of knowing. This has tremendous potential to inform university-based knowledge creation and transfer, and aid in decolonizing the university.
Emma Sabzalieva, a research associate in the Faculty of Education, has been awarded the 2021 Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Eurasia Special Interest Group Dissertation Award for her thesis 鈥楻esponding to major institutional change: The fall of the Soviet Union and higher education in Central Asia.鈥 The Eurasia Special Interest Group Dissertation Award aims […]
91亚色 Professor聽Sandra Schecter聽is the recipient of the 2020 Faculty of Graduate Studies' Teaching Award, an honour given to a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies who has displayed substantial, significant and sustained excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to the multifaceted aspects of teaching at the graduate level at 91亚色. The award recognizes teaching and […]
91亚色 has released its first-ever list of Top 30 Changemakers Under 30, shining a spotlight on remarkable young alumni who are making a difference in their communities, the country and around the world. 鈥91亚色鈥檚 Top 30 Under 30 is a community of changemakers,鈥 says Julie Lafford, executive director, Alumni Engagement. 鈥淒riven by passion, they create […]
One of the important lessons from the sudden shift to online learning for elementary and secondary students 鈭 at the beginning of the pandemic and again this January 鈭 is that emergency planning is needed to increase equity in access to education, says 91亚色 Professor Sarah Barrett. It is almost one year since schools began […]
Education Prof contributes to one-of-a-kind hub: the Museum of Dreams. Her work, 鈥淎 Child is Dreaming,鈥 illustrates how superbly crafted prose, with images, work as a cohesive whole that鈥檚 greater than the sum of its parts, and that holds within it tremendous potency.
CIHR- and NSERC-funded research identifies possible measures to control the mosquito population and the transmission of the West Nile virus in artificial ponds around the GTA. The findings could be used to guide programs in local health units.
Through a ground-breaking new brief, the Homeless Hub paints a vivid picture of youth homelessness and the child welfare system. Its findings will be relevant to decision- and policy-makers at all levels of government.