The college advantage
University inspired them to change the world. College gave them the tools to do it.
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Prof. Pettigrew explains his support for more open urination
View ArticleEthical investing isn’t as easy as it sounds
Prof. Pettigrew on why universities can't divest
View ArticleIn photos: Students embrace local food
Universities are ground zero of the locavore movement
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Get them where they live
Photograph by Richmond Lam Ridge Cross-McComber is about as blasé as your average overachiever when it comes to his laundry list of goals for the next few years and beyond. He’ll finish his year at...
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The home advantage
Photograph by Vincenzo D’Alto “Canada has gone from brain drain to brain gain,” Stephen Harper told a crowd at McMaster University on Aug. 3. He was speaking at a ceremony to announce the 167...
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Bye-bye Bay Street
Photograph by Nayan Sthankiya When she was in law school, Amber Biemans always figured she’d practise in the city. After she and her husband had kids, though, she felt the pull of small-town life. At...
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Ranking Canada’s law schools
Photograph by Ian Barrett Are a law school’s professors significant contributors to the intellectual life of their discipline? Do a law school’s graduates land the most sought-after jobs in government,...
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And if you don’t get in…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Roughly three-quarters of medical school applicants are rejected each year. Bummer. Luckily for them, wannabe doctors have better alternatives than ever. These four professional...
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Who should teach our teenagers about drinking at university?
Dave Chidley/CP Some predictions can be made with absolute certainty. The tides will shift. The sun will rise. And young university students will drink to excess. From Tom Brown’s Schooldays to Animal...
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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...
View ArticleUBC curriculum to make students more culturally aware after ‘Pocahontas’
VANCOUVER – The University of B.C.’s Sauder School of Business has set out a series of measures to help students better understand First Nations people and issues. The changes come after derogatory...
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Canada’s best schools: 2014 Maclean’s university rankings
The 23rd annual Maclean’s University Rankings issue, the number one source for students choosing universities in Canada, is now available on newsstands and tablets. It contains 130 pages of charts,...
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In photos: Students embrace local food
Students are leading a shift from greasy grub to gourmet fare. Here are scenes from the locavore food movement on campus. See the full photo essay and story in the 2014 Maclean’s University Rankings...
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Frank talk about ‘rape chants,’ campus life and cultural change
Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII / Corbis For the background on this this story, read this feature by Anne Kingston: The real danger for women on campus In the wake of the frosh-week “rape chant” controversy...
View ArticleGovernment hopes more international students fill Canadian universities
OTTAWA – The Harper government is hoping to attract more students to Canada from overseas — a lot more. International Trade Minister Ed Fast says the government hopes a new program will see more than...
View ArticleStudents vs. academics in right to rate professors
Jemma Wolfe had been dreaming about taking McMaster University’s fairy-tales course ever since she read about it in a brochure when she was in high school. But this arts graduate’s story does not have...
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Study: Cost of university to rise 13 per cent over four years
McMaster University students / Jessica Darmanin “Students will need deeper pockets to study at Canadian universities over the next four years with annual fees projected to rise 13 per cent on average...
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Are universities complicit in sexual violence?
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View ArticleLibyan students in Canada cut off from scholarship funding
HALIFAX – When Albahlool Omar Idhbeaa came from Libya to Nova Scotia to complete his doctorate, he came with the understanding that his home country would cover his tuition and the cost of supporting...
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