Ontario postsecondary institutions experience shifting faculty demographics, patterns of academic work, performance expectations, and policy requirements. How have colleges and universities dealt with these changes? What role can the provincial government play to induce positive institutional responses? These questions were debated on Friday April 29 at OISE in the Symposium on the Changing Professoriate in…Read More
Higher Education graduates receive Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge awards
April 27, 2016 | Uncategorised
Higher Education graduates from OISE, Julieta Grieco and Christine Arnold, were each awarded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) for their insightful research through the Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge (OGPRC). Julieta Grieco’s policy brief provided recommendations for the Ontario government on how to be successful in recruiting international students through…Read More
CIHE’s Glen Jones contributing to ‘Academic Profession in Knowledge Society’
April 22, 2016 | News, Uncategorised
Glen Jones will be at Seoul National University from April 21-22 for a research meeting surrounding the ‘Academic Profession in Knowledge Society’. Serving as the Canadian lead in the project, this group will be rolling out the next phase of the current study in ‘Changing Academic Professions’. There are around 33 countries currently planning to…Read More
CIHE’s Faculty and Students well represented at AERA conference
April 14, 2016 | Uncategorised
This year’s American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference brought together top scholars across all disciplines and sectors of education research in North America. CIHE was well represented at the event, boasting 3 faculty members and 3 graduate students presenting their innovative and engaging scholarship. We are proud of their accomplishments and their demonstration of the…Read More
CIHE in the media: University Affairs profiles new research centre
April 14, 2016 | News
University Affairs has written a piece on the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Canadian International Higher Education (CIHE), which is the culmination of more than 40 years of growth in higher-education research and graduate studies at OISE. CIHE’s four streams of expertise are higher education policy, governance and organization; student experience and…Read More
HEQCO Conference’s TD Scholars include three CIHE graduate assistants
April 9, 2016 | Uncategorised
HEQCO’s 2016 Transitions Conference brought together multiple stakeholders and practitioners from March 23-24 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Three CIHE graduate assistants were sponsored by TD Bank to attend the event and participate in the engaging discourses. We are proud of our TD Scholars and are grateful to TD for their support of…Read More
CIHE event with Volker Wedekind has great turnout
April 9, 2016 | Uncategorised
Volker Wedekind’s public seminar on March 16 entitled, Barricades, Barriers, Boundaries and Borders: Reforming the Post-School System, examined some of the key influences on the policy process and explored the current state of the system of universities and colleges in South Africa. The event, hosted by CIHE, generated a great turnout and inspired an engaging…Read More
CIHE’s Ruth Hayhoe to deliver keynote address and series of lectures in China
April 3, 2016 | Uncategorised
Ruth Hayhoe will be in China for three weeks from April 15 to May 9. She will be a keynote speaker at a conference on East-West Reciprocal Learning in Education at Southwest University in Chongqing from April 17 to 19. This event celebrates the 110th anniversary of Southwest University and the 3rd teacher education symposium…Read More
New CIHE report on public policy related to international students
March 31, 2016 | Uncategorised
CIHE Director Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva carried out a study funded by the MTCU on public policy and the attraction of international postsecondary students. The final report was released today. The report examines the policy framework in the Anglophone jurisdictions that are the major destinations for international students, and how and why their policy…Read More
CIHE’s Stephanie Waterman invited to present at ACPA and NASPA
March 31, 2016 | Uncategorised
Stephanie Waterman, a CIHE faculty member, was invited to present her research at both the American College Personnel Association’s conference in Montreal, as well as the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators’ pre-conference in Indianapolis. Dr. Waterman’s presentations focused on Aboriginal/First Nations/Indigenous/Native access, equity, and inclusion in postsecondary education, as well as Indigenizing programs for…Read More