My university now has three campuses, one of them being downtown where I currently work at the Centre for Dialogue. The original Simon Fraser University opened in 1966 at an isolated site high atop Burnaby Mountain near Vancouver. We established…
Teaching More, or Teaching Better?
A cranky column by Margaret Wente appeared in the Globe and Mail last week, complaining that professors don’t teach enough. It blended a few sketchy statistics together with a warmed-over discussion of teaching loads, an issue that has been around the block…
Unintended Consequences
Most of us are aware by now that antibiotics are overprescribed for human use and overused in animal feed to increase livestock weight. The consequences are tragic; disease-causing bacteria develop resistance when repeatedly exposed, and many antibiotics have become ineffective.…