CONAHEC News and Information

Martes, Abr. 17, 2018

EDMONTON—Presidents at Alberta’s colleges and universities are getting a pay cut.

Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt announced Tuesday that Alberta is bringing in a pay grid for the 20 leaders of its post-secondary institutions, to be fully in effect two years from now.

Schmidt said the salaries vary widely and the pay, particularly the bonus money, was out of step with other schools and equivalent public service jobs.

Jueves, Abr. 12, 2018

Today University World News celebrates its 500th edition, a major landmark, by asking its correspondents and commentators around the world to focus on the most significant change or challenge facing their country or region in the 10 years since our first edition in October 2007, or the one that they think will have the most impact in the 10 years ahead.

The outcome is a unique Special Report highlighting some of the major changes and challenges in higher education worldwide.

Jueves, Abr. 12, 2018

More than one third of college students in the U.S. say they don't have enough money for food, with some even going whole days without eating as they simply cannot afford meals, according to a report.

The study, Still Hungry and Homeless in College, found 36 percent of university students said they had been food insecure over the past 30 days, meaning they were not eating healthy, nutritious food or even had the ability to “acquire such foods in a socially acceptable manner.”

Lunes, Abr. 09, 2018

President Trump signed a memorandum to dispatch the National Guard to the southwest border last Wednesday. The associated memo justified the move by claiming that the "security of the United States is imperiled by a drastic surge of illegal activity on the southern border."

Viernes, Abr. 06, 2018

Lourdes “Lulu” Quintana-Salazar was born and raised in Michigan. Now she has to decide whether to live with her deported parents in Mexico or attend a better school in Michigan, where she feels at home. There are thousands of kids like her in Mexico — U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents who have been deported. And the numbers are expected to spike under the Trump administration.

 

Jueves, Abr. 05, 2018

Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a prominent professor of chemistry at Harvard University in the United States, who specialises in developing advanced materials for energy generation, is one of 20 newly hired Canada 150 research chairs announced on Thursday. The haul of prominent scientists appears to confirm a predicted brain gain for Canada due to reactionary politics in the United States and elsewhere, reports Ivan Semeniuk for The Globe and Mail.

Jueves, Abr. 05, 2018

Pressure on universities to re-examine their partnerships with Confucius Institutes and whether they are allowing undue Chinese government influence on campus has been raised by the introduction of legislation in both the United States House of Representatives and the US Senate, aimed at curbing the political influence of foreign institutes and organisations on college campuses by requiring greater transparency.

Martes, Mar. 27, 2018

Los investigadores Rebecca Janzen de la Universidad de Carolina del Sur (USC) en Estados Unidos, y Josh Davidson, de la Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SIAST) en Canadá, realizan una estancia académica en el Centro Universitario del Sur (CUSur), en el marco del Programa de Intercambio a Corto Plazo de Académicos del Consorcio para la Colaboración de la Educación Superior en América del Norte (CONAHEC).
 

Lunes, Mar. 19, 2018

After almost two years of controversy, Canadian universities are still simmering in the debate between free speech and inclusivity. Is academic freedom a platform to share any controversial ideas that come to light or must professors cushion their opinions to make class a safer place for diverse students? 

Jueves, Mar. 15, 2018

In what amounts to a research moonshot, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) aims to "cut the burden of depression in half" by 2050 and to eliminate it by the end of the century. But before the university starts treating the world, it’s begun treating its own students.

[This is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s leading higher education publication. It is presented here under an agreement with University World News.]

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