Communications Strategy- City hones communications strategy - Traverse City Record-Eagle April 24, 2026
- Rozelle Laha joins ZETWERK as Corporate Communications Lead - Exchange4Media April 22, 2026
- VCU Health names inaugural AVP of marketing and communications - VCU Health April 20, 2026
- Aligning Strategy, People, and Communications During Facility Closures - BDO USA April 20, 2026
- ScanSource Advances Converged Communications Strategy With Dedicated CX Team and Arrow McLaren Partnership - marketscreener.com April 16, 2026
- ScanSource Advances Converged Communications Strategy with Dedicated CX Team and Arrow Mclaren Partnership - marketscreener.com April 16, 2026
- Anomaly Names Kira Montgomery Executive Strategy Director, Head of Communications Strategy - Little Black Book | LBBOnline April 14, 2026
- Deep Dive: The 2026 State of Internal Communications - Ragan Communications April 10, 2026
- University Governance
- Gaurav Gogoi to raise university governance issues in parliament, writes to PMO over NE institutions - MSN April 26, 2026
- Process Without Transparency: UWC Senior Management's Governance Failure in the TMoSAF Proposal to Rename the University After Allan Boesak - dailynews.co.za April 25, 2026
- President Tebboune: The new and victorious Algeria is steadily moving toward establishing modern university governance based on efficiency and accountability - AL24 News April 25, 2026
- NCKU Tops 2026 CommonWealth University Citizen Award for Sustainability Governance and Social Responsibility - Ncku.edu.tw April 21, 2026
- Digital push for university governance - The Times of India April 21, 2026
- Draft CUC Code of Governance - Wonkhe April 20, 2026
- Government moves to reshape university governance through new council appointments - The Eastleigh Voice April 13, 2026
- Postgraduate students: become a member on the University Council - La Trobe University April 13, 2026
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Feedback
When interviewing candidates for teaching positions at my university, I often ask them how they provide and receive feedback in the workplace, to get a quick, vivid picture of their character and initiative. When you give clear and useful feedback … Continue reading
Prime marketing space!
“The Inukshuk is my friend.” The Invictus Games are coming to Vancouver and Whistler in February. It will be the first time winter sports events will be featured “in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting … Continue reading
Election Day in B.C.
And it’s an “atmospheric river” event in Vancouver. Timing!
Is Kwantlen Student Association trying to kill student newspaper?
Seems bad. I trust these machinations, no matter who is behind them, will not be successful. My life is already too full of dismay (thank you very much). The editor of The Runner, the student newspaper, is interviewed here. Many … Continue reading
Raw Milk
Let’s not. The marvellous Talia Lavin discusses “the collapse of consensus reality.” I love how Lavin lets loose her scorn. Increased raw milk consumption has already led to a rise in foodborne illness—including stillbirths, miscarriages and deaths, albeit in very … Continue reading
“Storying Universal Design for Learning”
My Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Seanna Takacs, PhD, has coauthored “Storying Universal Design for Learning” (with coauathors Lilach Marom, Alex Vanderveen, and the late Arley Cruthers Mcneney). It is a terrific book that “compiles post-secondary student voices on accessible teaching … Continue reading
Preparing ourselves for November
Dr. Kate Starbird and her colleagues at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have launched a Substack newsletter devoted to tracking rumours and misinformation concerning the upcoming United States Presidential election. This newsletter is part of the … Continue reading
“If you have any tips and tricks for evading censors, please contact us.”
This sentiment, published in The Economist by Gabriel Crossley, has made my Sunday. Crossley notes that in China VPNs (“software which makes it appear as if a computer or mobile phone is located in another country”) have been “getting slower” … Continue reading
Counter
I have had truly unpleasant interactions with people I’ve known for years – including with those in academia – during these Olympics. Their loathsome disdain for transgenderism made them attack a non-transgendered woman, a boxer from Algeria, in giddy displays … Continue reading
The speaking body
There has always been an oral-communication component in my upper-level business communications classes. I used to justify this to my students this way: In my own professional life, no matter how beautifully clear and researched the documents my clients pay … Continue reading