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That’s ‘professor’ uptight to you
Photographs by Laura Mills June Madeley is annoyed with the increasingly rude demands she gets from students at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Ten years ago, it was common for them to...
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What Brazil knows that we don’t
Pedro Ladeira/Agencia Estado/Keystone Press Agency This week we are wondering whether the government of Canada thinks it’s more important to talk or to act. Every now and then, Stephen Harper’s...
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Measuring excellence
Andrew Tolson/Maclean's Maclean’s places universities in one of three categories, recognizing the differences in types of institutions, levels of research funding, the diversity of offerings, and the...
View ArticleWomen and children
Just before Sunday’s NDP debate, Paul Dewar released his platform on families. Dewar is committing that as Prime Minister, he will: Give Canadian families a break on the cost of prescription drugs by...
View ArticleThanks to a donor, Harvard now has a Falik Men’s Room
As a child, William Falik probably sat through a lot of jokes about his last name, which is pronounced “phallic.” But as an adult, he’s the one getting the laughs from his moniker. The Berkeley law...
View ArticleUniversities: Who loves you, baby?
Consternation in France over the country’s lousy showing in the Times Higher Education world university reputation rankings. This isn’t the overall university rankings, which are constructed with piles...
View ArticleCanadian universities’ Brazilian ambition
Last October I wrote a really strange column noting that the government of Brazil is sending 75,000 students abroad on scholarships, and Brazilian businesses were bankrolling another 25,000, and Canada...
View ArticleOut now: the 2012 Maclean’s professional schools rankings
Our much-anticipated Law School Rankings plus what’s hot in engineering, medicine, M.B.A.s and more. It’s all inside the Maclean’s Professional Schools Issue, on newsstands and iPad now. You’ll get:...
View ArticleQuebec universities: the McGill problem (hint: it’s not a problem)
Quebec higher-education minister Pierre Duchesne will spend Monday and Tuesday presiding over a summit on Quebec universities. Duchesne, a former senior correspondent for Radio-Canada, is one of the...
View ArticleNew university presidents at Toronto and McGill
Between them, the University of Toronto and McGill University have 100,000 students, $596 million in total accumulated funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, one Charles Taylor and a...
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What the state must learn about higher education
Photograph by Jessica Darmanin When you join a national newspaper or magazine as a writer, you start getting a lot more email from three kinds of people: PR folks, the insane and journalism students....
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The awkward truth about excuse notes
Alex E. Proimos / Flickr I met Anna Drake, a University of Waterloo assistant professor, at a recent event in Toronto and asked: what are professors talking about these days? She said they’re...
View ArticleA cooler approach to men’s issues
A men’s issues event I reported on in March at the University of Toronto drew masked protesters who were there to intimidate people, city police there to keep things in order and it was, inevitably,...
View ArticleSaint Mary’s University shocked after video of ‘sexist’ frosh chant: spokesman
HALIFAX – A spokesman for Saint Mary’s University in Halifax says senior administrators were shocked after seeing a video of students in a frosh-week chant condoning non-consensual sex with underage...
View ArticleUBC officials to probe reports of frosh chant endorsing non-consensual sex
VANCOUVER – Officials at the University of British Columbia say they will investigate reports that a chant endorsing non-consensual sex was recited during frosh week. A statement on the university’s...
View ArticleUniversity costs have tripled over past 20 years, study suggests
TORONTO – Canadian students hoping for some financial relief on the cost of their post-secondary education are in for a disappointment over the next few years, a prominent think tank suggests. A report...
View ArticleUniversity of B.C. student executives quit over chant appearing to endorse rape
VANCOUVER – Two student executives with the University of British Columbia’s commerce undergraduate society have quit and the society’s annual frosh orientation will end after students at the Sauder...
View ArticleIn defence of Frosh Week
Russell Smith, in the Globe and Mail, would like you to know Frosh Week is disgusting and boring, and drinking is deeply boring. Those are some of the reasons he thinks universities should do away with...
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Do we really need so many lawyers?
Olivier Jean / Reuters Each year, just before Christmas, a cross-section of Toronto’s legal establishment gathers for what might be the only truly indispensible event on its calendar. “Beef Night” is...
View Article‘Down the hall’ from David Gilmour
News of David Gilmour’s proud indifference to ideas and people unlike him has rocked the Canadian Twittersphere. Gilmour and his off-the-cuff paean in Hazlitt to macho men of letters earned him...
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