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The economic, civic and intellectual ends of a university education do not need to be placed in opposition to one another. A university education at its best will be attentive to all these ends.
In Ontario and in Alberta, university decisions about balancing free expression and protection from harm will be an important test of recent university policy shifts pertaining to free expression.
Recognizing and accrediting students’ prior learning and competencies is one way universities can tweak business-as-usual approaches.
We ought to worry that the pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to disseminating knowledge.
In a world where students can attend any university from their living rooms, universities need a compelling answer to the question: “Why should students come here?”
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Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and Professor of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Innovation Lab Director and Professor, Educational Technology and Innovation Mindset, Concordia University
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Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning/Lecturer in Strategic Management, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Special Adviser to the President, EDID (Curriculum Transformation) and Professor, School of Professional Communication, Toronto Metropolitan University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science, University of Guelph; Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
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University Fellow, University of Salford