Despite much progress since the mid-20th century, there still exists a disparity in number of female academics relative to their male colleagues. This gender gap has come under increased focus as universities take steps foster diversity and inclusiveness. Bibliometrics can provide window into research by measuring metadata academic publications. By determining ratio authors, bias at level insti...

This article identifies five predominant approaches to Indigenizing the curriculum occurring within Canadian universities today. Examining these in relation theories of change articulated by Gaudry and Lorenz (2018) Stein (2020), considers possibilities limits each approach as well degree which they challenge colonial Eurocentric edifices universities. While many current curricular involve mino...

OBJECTIVE A tracking study of the undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents who participated in the Northwestern Ontario Medical Programme (NOMP) during its first 25 years (1972-1997) was conducted to search for factors related to physician recruitment to Northwestern Ontario. METHODS Annual editions of the Canadian Medical Directory were used to determine how many participant...

Flagging experiments is one way to reduce the amount of nonhuman animal-based research. Experiments flagged for the following 3 characteristics are highly questionable: few or no citations received in the years following publication, thus having little or no influence on subsequent research; large numbers of animals used; and invasive procedures, such as injections or anesthesia and surgery, us...

This paper offers a qualitative thematic analysis of the impacts of cyberbullying on post-secondary students, faculty, and administrators from four participating Canadian universities. These findings were drawn from data obtained from online surveys of students and faculty, student focus groups, and semi-structured interviews with faculty members and university administrators. The key themes di...

The Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) has made available to Canadian universities a Rapid-Prototyping Board (RPB) for research into field-programmable logic and embedded systems, including hardware/software (HW/SW) codesign. Earlier, we developed IntraGiz, an object-oriented driver for the RPB’s FPGAs. Now this poster1 describes an additional software layer, Gizgate, which projects th...

A critical perspective is presented in regard to the 2000 regional rankings of Canadian health care indices by Maclean's magazine, June 5, 2000. This perspective is related in format to previous analyses of the Maclean's rankings of Canadian universities. Several pitfalls in the health care ranking procedures are summarized. The Maclean's data and general criteria appear conceptually reasonable...

Bluetooth is a communications standard targeting shortrange wireless communications with data rates of 1Mb/s at 10m distance. To encourage Canadian universities to pursue this commercially promising standard the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation is providing the intellectual property for a Bluetooth SOC Reference Platform. This platform does not currently include an RF transceiver core. Thi...

At most Canadian and American community colleges and universities, student ratings have been implemented as a means of evaluating course instruction. Although concerns regarding the validity of student ratings from instructors’ perspectives have been studied quite extensively, issues associated with the use of student ratings information by administrators have been largely ignored. In this stud...

Academic governance is an important dimension of institutional self-governance. This paper reports on the findings of a new study of university senates (academic councils) in Canadian universities in order to analyze changes in structure and in senate members’ perceptions of the structure and role of senates over the last decade. Following the basic design of a similar study in 2000, this study...