University Canada West- Victim of growing tuition scam knew exactly where her $37K went — but no one would help her get it back - cbc.ca March 9, 2026
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW hosts Startup Grind Pitch Battle Royale - Education News Canada March 6, 2026
- University Canada West - UCW ranks first again for most Scopus-indexed publications among private institutions - Education News Canada February 19, 2026
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW takes second place at 2026 National MBA Games - Education News Canada February 10, 2026
- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - cbc.ca December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - Business in Vancouver November 13, 2025
- Costly Fumbles by a BC College Left Me Stuck, Student Claims - The Tyee November 3, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- CT researchers study social media and youth mental health. Including more use versus more harm. - Hartford Courant April 4, 2026
- Monroeville native drives love of motorcycles to over 3.5M social media followers - TribLIVE.com April 4, 2026
- Social media mogul agrees to ban minors from platforms - yoursun.com April 4, 2026
- Trump makes cryptic social media post as Iran ‘says no to talks’ - London Evening Standard April 4, 2026
- How do social media platforms trap users in networks they would rather leave? - Technology Org April 4, 2026
- Scope and Prospects of Social Media for Patient Education and Engagement in Medical Practice - Cureus April 4, 2026
- These Coins Lead the Way in Social Media Discourse to Start April's First Weekend! - Santiment April 4, 2026
- Social Media Reacts To A Weird Final Four Match - Sports Illustrated April 4, 2026
Tag Archives: for educators
Codeacademy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5-G2hrb8c#t=64 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Marketing student explains why students should learn code in his post “The ‘C’ Word, and Why You Need to Add It to Your Vocabulary.” “Social collaboration through learning is an incredible motivator” to understand and write … Continue reading
Teaching on the Cheap
This figure is staggering: Adjunct professors and other “contingent employees” make up 70% of the faculty in American universities. These people have no hope for tenure at their schools. Writes James Hoff in The Guardian, “All but the most elite … Continue reading
The copyright robots
There is a wonderful story on NPR this morning, “Record Company Picks Fight – With the Wrong Guy,” about Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who was threatened by an Australian record label called Liberation Music with a copyright-infringement lawsuit after he posted … Continue reading
“The Canadian Style”
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is the nation’s official publisher and our largest translation organization. It also publishes a wonderful online style guide and a collection of writing and editing tools that will handily assist students and teachers, authors … Continue reading
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Making your own career rules
Radhika Nagpal, a computer science professor at Harvard, has written a wonderful piece called “The Awesomest 7 Year Post-Doc or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life.” It’s about maintaining good emotional hygiene in the academic environment. … Continue reading
Vancouver Schools and Social Media
The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading
No More Memos
Delivered to my house this week was the instructor’s edition of Daniel G. Riordan’s stalwart textbook Technical Report Writing Today, 10th edition. I was thrilled, I have to say, having used the 9th edition of Riordan’s text in my upper-level … Continue reading
Stanford: Resources for Writers
Stanford University’s Program for Writing and Rhetoric is renowned both for its truly interdisciplinary approach to writing as well as for its adherence to, and study of, formal rhetoric in numerous sectors: forensics, advocacy, public affairs, the arts, technology, and … Continue reading
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Digital Media Governance
As an educator at a Vancouver-area university, I helped fashion the digital-media and online-privacy procedures for its School of Business. My goal was to show how teachers and students could avail themselves of the many dozens of digital-media platforms – … Continue reading
Playing to an Audience
Back when I frequented the Poets.org critique forums, I often found myself talking about the distinction between what I called “private poems” and “public poems.” Private poems were poems that existed for the author’s benefit – often to work through … Continue reading