SSH News: August 6, 2015

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6 août 2015

 

Here is our list of the most interesting news articles on the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week. Voici notre liste des plus intéressants articles concernant les sciences humaines, sciences sociales et l’enseignement supérieur de la semaine passée.

Humanities and Social Sciences | Les sciences humaines et sociales

STEM Or Liberal Arts? A Trick Question For College Students

August 5, 2015 | Forbes

Don’t make me feel ashamed of my career aspirations

An alt-ac career is not the traditional route for a PhD, but it’s not shameful.

August 4, 2015 | University Affairs

How arts education can help create better doctors

August 2, 2015 | The Globe and Mail

Four Steps to Choosing a College Major

July 31, 2015 | New York Times

Higher Education | L’enseignement supérieur

National Post View: Helping students, without burdening everyone else

August 6, 2015 | National Post

A New Mission for Ontario’s Universities

August 5, 2015 | Academica Forum

The Boomers are coming

August 5, 2015 | University Affairs

The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men

August 4, 2015 | The Atlantic

Harvey P. Weingarten – Quality: The final frontier

August 4, 2015 | HEQCO

Equity and Diversity | L’équité et la diversité

Gender Bias Plagues Academia, Especially in STEM

August 6, 2015 | New Republic

Ending All-Male Panels

August 5, 2015 | Inside Higher Ed

Mount Royal University launches ‘indigenization’ plan in light of growing aboriginal enrolment

August 5, 2015 | Metro News

Student Loan Debt Is Leaving Women Broke and Vulnerable

August 4, 2015 | Vice

Op-ed: Indigenizing the U of S is an undesirable goal

August 4, 2015 | Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Open Access and Publishing | Le libre accès et l’édition

Here Be Dragons: The Perils of Predatory Publishing

August 4, 2015 | Social Science Space

Research and its Impact | La recherche et ses incidences 

Pursuing a multidimensional path to research assessment – Elsevier’s approach to metrics

August 4, 2015 | Impact of Social Science blog, LSE

If We don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean when We Count Them?

August 4, 2015 | The Scholarly Kitchen

Dépenses en recherche dans les universités: le Québec évite la baisse

30 juillet 2015 | La Presse