A growing trend across Canadian universities is the “teaching class”, university instructors who are hired on short contracts to teach classes on an hourly basis and for lower pay than more ‘elite’ professors who spend their days researching.
Your company is after a new look. But instead of consulting a design firm, you decide to try out a new computer program. Within minutes, your company is presented with a complete redesign pitch, neatly crafted to the meet current trends.
“Sum ergo computo. I am therefore I compute.” So reads the slogan for the Queen’s School of Computing, but budget cuts and a decade-long hiring drought threaten the school’s future as a cutting-edge program.
Recruiting students from around the world is vital to Queen’s progress — but we aren’t prepared.When I travelled home to India this summer, I was asked a ton of questions about my studies. But, the question that stood out the most was one posed by my relatives: Is Queen’s a good school?It goes without saying, but no one knows that because Queen’s doesn’t have an international presence.Although well-reputed in Canada, in the rest of the world, Queen’s is often confused with universities in the UK — Queen Mary and Queen’s Belfast.
When someone notices that I have a tattoo, they often ask me what it means. In my case, I have a typical answer — it’s something like a life mantra. But for others, it’s not like that.
Celebrating EA Sports’ inclusion of female teams in FIFA 16 is somewhat like praising a broom for sweeping: acknowledging the presence of remarkable female athletes shouldn’t have taken this long.
The importance of arts research is often overlooked but conducting hands-on work in oral history and archival research showed me that there’s a strong demand and interest in projects focused on the humanities.
