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Congress for everyone: Big Thinking, Congress Expo, Career Corner, Interdisciplinary symposia and more
Congress is a community of learning and exchanging ideas. Even if you are not an association member, you are invited to take part in Congress and benefit from the diverse opportunities for personal and professional enrichment on offer: Big Thinking...
Open Social Scholarship in Canada
Alyssa Arbuckle, Assistant Director, Research Partnerships & Development, Electronics Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), University of Victoria Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor of English in the Faculty...
A pivotal year for Canada’s engagement with global social justice
February 20 th is World Day of Social Justice, as recognized by the United Nations since 2007. The day is a call to observe social justice by supporting “efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment...
SSH News: February 19, 2015
Here is our list of the most interesting news articles about the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week: Humanities and Social Sciences We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training...
Once Again, Without Data
It has become a common complaint, across the board, that statistics relating to Canadian higher education are sorely lacking or, when they do exist, are misleading–ACCUTE past-president Stephen Slemon has written about this matter on this very blog...
Results for the Federation’s Board of Directors elections
The results are in! This election marks a change in the Federation presidency. After completing her two-year term as President, Antonia Maioni will hold the position of Past-President until March 2016 and Stephen Toope ends his term as President...
A short history and economics lesson for Kevin O’Leary
In a recent BBN interview, Kevin O`Leary offered unsubstantiated commentary about liberal arts degrees, and History degrees in particular. He stated: “…stop going for liberal arts degrees because it is useless”; “come out with a History degree, you...
SSH News: February 12, 2015
Here is our list of the most interesting news articles about the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week: Higher Education Union attacks University of Manitoba dean: University president says report is flawed February 11...
Ottawa is...
The backdrop to Congress 2015 is none other than the nation's capital, Ottawa. Whether you are returning or visiting for the first time, I encourage you to take the opportunity to discover what Ottawa has to offer. For me, this begins with world...