University Canada West
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW welcomes inaugural Fulbright Canada Research Chair - Education News Canada August 13, 2025
- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 2025
- University Canada West - Understanding Indigenous History series takes to the skies with Air Canada - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
- 'Like my big brother': Survivor of Banff rockfall says friend who died saved him - CBC June 23, 2025
- University Canada West - University Canada West Announces New Interim Chairs for its Departments for 2025 - Education News Canada May 7, 2025
- The Best 8 Reasons to Study at University Canada West - vocal.media April 28, 2025
- University Canada West - Macleans.ca April 17, 2025
Social Media Policy
- FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series 2025 Continues to Soar with New Social Media Benchmarks - fiba.basketball October 16, 2025
- Paris Hilton surprises fans by following Turkish singer Hatice on social media - Türkiye Today October 16, 2025
- MAGA trolls were losing their minds on social media. - Yahoo News Canada October 16, 2025
- Social media posts impact employee behaviour, study finds - HRD America October 16, 2025
- Social Media Automation Tool Market Projected to Achieve USD - openPR.com October 16, 2025
- Student arrested in connection with social media threat directed toward Ralston Valley High School in Arvada - Denver7 October 16, 2025
- YouTube down!: How social media shutdowns affect users - and how they react - Storyboard18 October 16, 2025
- Social media causes matcha shortage - thepostathens.com October 16, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
RIP Geoff Nunberg
I aspired to rise to the level of acumen, clarity, and courtesy of this marvelous linguist, knowing of course that I could never get close. Listen to some of Nunberg’s commentaries for NPR’s “Fresh Air” program. — 22 August: The … Continue reading
Editing for a civil society
Friend of No Contest Communications Chet Wisniewsiki, a principal research scientist at Sophos, woke me up with this short thread earlier this week:
On collaboration
Richard Rogers upon meeting Lorenz Hart for the first time: “I left Hart’s house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.” Their song “My Funny Valentine” is something of a … Continue reading
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
“Business Writing for Everyone”
My summer 2020 first-year students will be getting their textbook for free – Business Writing for Everyone, put together by my colleague Arley Cruther’s. It’s a wonderful resource that will make my teaching better without a doubt. Arley’s “Adaptation Statement” … Continue reading
Journalism needs a better metaphor
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen writes that “exposure” is a “metaphor that increasingly misleads. I refer to the image of ‘exposure’ as a description of what the press does, should do, or isn’t doing well enough. To expose wrongdoing, incompetence, … Continue reading
A tonic
This is from a marvellous interview with Fran Lebowitz that’s in the New Yorker: I want to switch topics and ask you a bit about Toni Morrison. Everyone felt the loss of her, but largely as a literary icon or … Continue reading
Time for some PD
It has been awhile since I taught a digital marketing course at my university. It was such a fun class! My third-year students all helped one another (and me) keep abreast of new apps and innovations – literally on a … Continue reading
Learning hungry
Earlier posts here have discussed how many university students come to class hungry. My university’s student newspaper, The Runner, notes today that almost two out of five “post-secondary students experienced some degree of food insecurity in the past year.” I … Continue reading