91亚色鈥檚 Department of Dance is spearheading an innovative health initiative that sends students into the community to lead weekly dance activity classes for older adults at partner institutions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The program, supported by the Government of Ontario鈥檚 Healthy Communities Fund, focuses on the positive and preventative effects that dance […]
David Phipps, director of 91亚色's聽Research Services and Knowledge Exchange, has been named the most influential knowledge broker in Canada, according to a report by Knowledge Mobilization Works,聽a consulting and training company based in Ottawa. The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization 100, a survey run by Knowledge Mobilization Works, asked respondents to rank the biggest influences of their […]
About 150 educators from across Canada converged on 91亚色 recently to learn聽new technology tools and best practices to enhance their teaching. They were attending the 10th annual ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning) Summer Institute Aug. 22 to 24. The theme this year was Connected Community Learning: The Next Decade. For two-and-a-half days, they heard speakers […]
The rags-to-riches immigrant stories Canada has been bred on don鈥檛 work anymore, say the two professors who led the project that will be released today, wrote the Toronto Star June 18. Luin Goldring, sociology professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and Patricia Landolt of the Centre for Urban and Community […]