University Canada West- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - CBC December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - vancouversun.com November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - biv.com November 13, 2025
- Costly Fumbles by a BC College Left Me Stuck, Student Claims - The Tyee November 3, 2025
- University Canada West - UCW Professor Dr. Jafar Heydari Named Among the World's Top 2% Scientists - Education News Canada September 23, 2025
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - vancouversun.com August 22, 2025
- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - ladailypost.com August 7, 2025
- The Best 8 Reasons to Study at University Canada West - vocal.media April 28, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- ‘Outrage’ is driving rapid social media law changes – Baroness Kidron - irishnews.com January 25, 2026
- AI-generated British schoolgirl becomes far-right social media meme - The Guardian January 25, 2026
- Why social media is falling back in love with 2016? - Storyboard18 January 25, 2026
- Social Media Reacts to Arizona State's Rebound Victory Over Cincinnati - Sports Illustrated January 25, 2026
- Andrew McCutchen takes to social media to share Pirates free agency frustrations - post-gazette.com January 25, 2026
- Minneapolis Live Updates: Federal Agents Shoot and Kill a 37-Year Old Man - The New York Times January 25, 2026
- Pakistani human rights lawyers jailed for 17 years over social media posts - The Washington Post January 25, 2026
- “We’re not trying to recreate social media”: How Minnesota’s Star Tribune navigates a local crisis - Semafor January 25, 2026
Monthly Archives: November 2016
The Hobo Ethical Code
This is beautiful. From Open Culture: 1. Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you. 2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times. 3. Don’t take … Continue reading
Where are the experts on *who we are*, in the social sciences, or in the arts, … anywhere?
Over at Research as a Second Language: Writing, Representation, and the Crisis of Social Science, Danish writer Thomas Basbøll does not view this question as an academic one. Neither would he give “both” as his answer. In his stirring dissection of the United … Continue reading
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Hence, teaching manners matters
In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake,” my good friend Clarissa writes: Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose “narrative was erased by the entire field of academia” when a hapless prof asked her to … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, courtesy, cross-posted from basil.CA, for educators, for students
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