In this article, we analyze a broad range of factors that affect the sense of belonging of undergraduate students taking a first-year academic literacy course (ALC) at a multicultural, multilingual university in Vancouver, Canada. Students who fail to meet the…

Offering an array of support services to meet the varied needs of postsecondary students assumes these services can increase student success and persistence by providing them with additional resources and opportunities for institutional engagement. Little Canadian research, however, has examined…

This paper examines the forces responsible for the emergence of policy choices and innovations in the area of federal student assistance in Canada in the late 1990’s. These initiatives - centred around the ‘Canada Opportunities Strategy”- are well known for…

Abstract The central proposition of this article is that Manitoba’s faith-based higher education institutions have become more accepted by, and more closely in- tegrated into, the mainstream post-secondary system in the province. Draw- ing on theoretical work explaining change in…

Le système universitaire est complexe et subit de nombreuses pressions pour qu’on évalue sa performance. Comment définir la performance des universités? On ne s’entend pas sur le choix des dimensions, des critères et des indicateurs à privilégier. Cet article a…

Abstract This paper presents research on the benefits of service learning for pre-service teachers in the final year of their concurrent education program. The purpose of the research was to determine whether liberatory learning (Chambers, 2009) occurred for those students…

Abstract In their 2005 Harvard Business Review article, Bennis and O’Toole described business schools as being “on the wrong track” as a result of their focus on so-called scientific research. Some commentators argue that business schools have slowly lost their…

Abstract Undergraduate university enrolment in Canada is characterized by a higher proportion of women to men, with a pattern of gender segregation across some disciplines. Within some disciplines, there is also a pattern of internal sex segregation whereby women and…

Résumé L’objectif de cet article est de favoriser une meilleure compréhension de la manière dont se construisent les processus de changement institutionnel en contexte d’enseignement supérieur. Nous le faisons par l’étude de la logique institutionnelle d’appropriation du concept Thinkpad University…

Abstract In recent years, much attention has been given to the need for more empirical research to evaluate training programs that help prepare graduate students for their current and future teaching responsibilities. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a…