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Brenda McDermott – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Through examining nine Accessibility Advisors' (AAs) stories of becoming professionals in their field, this study provides an important entry point into understanding the individuals whose work is central to supporting students with disabilities within Canadian research-intensive post-secondary institutions. AAs function as Third Space…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Students with Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Augustine S. J. Park; Jasmeet Bahia; Alex Bing – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2025
This article examines the experiences of racialized graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs at one Canadian university. There is virtually no research on racialized inequity and STEM higher education in the Canadian context despite a robust body of literature outside of Canada, especially in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Graduate Students, Racism
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Roger Pizarro Milian; Dylan Reynolds; Trisha Einmann; David Walters; Robert Brown; Gillian Parekh – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Studies have explored the relationship between travelling non-linear post-secondary (PSE) pathways and student achievement in multiple jurisdictions. This research aims to overcome some of the major challenges faced by scholars in this area by leveraging a new administrative linkage in Ontario, Canada containing detailed information on students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
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Gillian Parekh; Robert S. Brown; David Walters; Ryan Collis; Naleni Jacob – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2025
In Canada, access to post-secondary education (PSE), which includes university, college, or apprenticeship programs, is becoming ever more important in terms of securing future employment, long-term health, and economic security. Kirby (2009) points to Canada's universal level of PSE access; however, also notes how access for students with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Costs, Postsecondary Education
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Arlana J. Vadnais; Tracey Peter; Jennifer Dengate; Annemieke Farenhorst; Catherine Mavriplis – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Gender disparity persists in the personal caregiving of children and older adults, and in professional caregiving duties, with many workplace policies and cultures favoring the "ideal worker" and presenting significant and continuing barriers to female caregivers' professional success and well-being. The recent pandemic both highlighted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Caregivers, Gender Differences
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Abhinand Thaivalappil; Jillian Stringer; Ian Young; Alison Burnett; Anit Bhattacharyya; Andrew Papadopoulos – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Many post-secondary institutions contain organizational values, which describe enduring beliefs that support strategic priorities and guide members of an organization. Relatedly, the adoption of health-promoting frameworks calls on embedding health within post-secondary institutions' core values. The study objective was to map Canada's…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Values Education, Health Promotion, Foreign Countries
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Emmanuelle Arnaud; Sarah Cahill – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Individual development plans (IDPs) are increasingly being used in higher education to provide personalized guidance to students that can foster a more purposeful and productive education experience. In this study, we document the graduate student's perspective on the effectiveness of the IDP based on responses from students in course- and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Individual Development, Higher Education
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Audrey-Anne de Guise; Stéphanie Girard; Maude Boulanger – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Given that teacher dropout is an issue for beginning teachers, it is important to be proactive in order to retain teachers within the profession. Physical Education pre-service teachers' education programs represent a crucial part of their professional development in preparing them to face the challenges that often explain retirement, especially…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Barriers, Student Needs
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Emerson LaCroix – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Experiential education, the process of providing students with applied learning opportunities within and outside the classroom, is rife with organizational complexity. This article examines Ontario's Strategic Mandate Agreements using qualitative content analysis to see how conceptions and communications of experiential learning have changed over…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Experiential Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
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Mirjam Fines-Neuschild; Tanja Tajmel – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Since 2019, equity, diversity, and inclusion have become institutional priorities for Canadian funding agencies and universities under the acronym EDI. Here, we examine for the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) how the current EDI discourse unfolds in scientists' understandings as "EDI construct." This…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Intersectionality, Social Bias, Equal Education
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Jerome Cranston; Alexandria Bennett – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Although the ideals of higher education promote learning and personal growth irrespective of an individual's social identity including their perceived or declared race, systemic racism continues to subject Indigenous, Black, and otherwise racialized students, staff, and faculty to unwelcoming academic cultures and, at times, hostilities. The aim…
Descriptors: Racism, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Higher Education
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Leda Stawnychko – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
University leaders navigate a complex and dynamic environment, balancing the diverse expectations of students, faculty, policy makers, and governmental bodies. Proficiency in these roles requires deep academic understanding, contextual knowledge, and effective management and leadership skills. This study explored how faculty members serving as…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Role Theory
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Roger Pizarro Milian; David Zarifa – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2023
It is generally accepted that Canadian universities are less stratified than their southern neighbours, a hypothesis popularized in the mid-2000s and verified by subsequent comparative empirical research. Through this piece, we revisit the Canadian "flatness" hypothesis, embracing a more sociological definition of status hierarchies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Institutional Characteristics
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Elliott, Sean; FitzGerald, Carolyn – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This study identifies factors contributing to the success of foster care alumni (FCA) who graduate from post-secondary education (PSE), despite institutions devoting little effort to making PSE accessible to FCA. Nine FCA PSE graduates were interviewed about their success. Responses were analyzed using an exploratory method to identify themes…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Postsecondary Education, Graduation Rate, Access to Education
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Brant, Jennifer – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This qualitative inquiry documents the lessons gleaned from my journey toward the praxis of Indigenous Maternal Pedagogies, an Indigenous women-centred teaching and learning engagement, to offer insights for supporting Indigenous women in higher education. Specifically, this article offers an express vision for Indigenous women's educational…
Descriptors: Praxis, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Holistic Approach
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