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Our President-Elect asks universities to evolve, not transform radically
“I love you, please change.” These words succinctly capture Stephen Toope’s message to Canadian universities in his rich, nuanced and compelling October 2014 report for Taking Action for Canada: Jobs and Skills for the 21st Century. An initiative of...
New Working Paper: Finding New Ways to Maximize HSS Research Impact
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has been hard at work on an ambitious research impact project. Our new working paper, entitled “ The Impacts of Humanities and Social Science Research,” launches today at Concordia University in...
SSH News: Big Thinking video, Paul Davidson speech, university-college agreement, and IDRC-SSHRC awards
Jim Miller: Why Don’t We Get Along? (video available) Jim Miller’s Big Thinking on the Hill lecture, Why Don’t We Get Along? is now available in full on our YouTube channel. Happy viewing! Smarter Skills for a Smarter Canada Paul Davidson, president...
Kudos to Congress for childcare
This blog post was originally published in the September 2014 Bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Kudos to congress childcare organizers for getting it right this year. As Guttman and Burnett ( Bulletin, May 2013)...
SSH News: Congress 2015 planning, reflecting on Jim Miller’s lecture, US-Canada academic exchange and the value of university education
Planning for Congress 2015 has begun The planning cycle for Congress 2015 has officially begun! The Congress 2015 Planning Meeting took place September 24-25, jointly hosted by the Federation and the University of Ottawa. Program Chairs (PCs) and...
A Vision for the SFU Centre for Dialogue
This is a transcript of the speech presented on September 16 by Shauna Sylvester, newly appointed Director of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, and Executive Director of SFU Public Square. In this speech, Sylvester lays out her...
Reflections on the Changing BA
The Canadian BA is surely but subtly transforming before our very eyes, as Antonia Maioni points out in a thoughtful op-ed in The Globe and Mail this week. The program from which I graduated at the University of Toronto more than 25 years ago is a...
SSH News: Op-ed by Antonia Maioni, SSHRC Impact Awards, Trudeau Fellowships, Transatlantic Science Week
Antonia Maioni: Arts graduates are best prepared for the unexpected An op-ed by Federation president Antonia Maioni in The Globe and Mail challenges the notion of the outdated BA. Maioni reflects on the contemporary, cross-disciplinary BA which...
Beyond science, can one size of OA fit all?
This post originally appeared on ScienceOpen.com on September 15, 2014. The ScienceOpen team are pleased to announce some changes to facilitate the spread of Open Access publishing beyond the sciences, its traditional strong-hold. To encourage those...