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Derek Hall – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the extent and characteristics of Canadian university reporting of and policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. It identifies current approaches' details and limits and recommends improvements. Design/methodology/approach: The study developed questions and considerations for analysing reporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Travel, Air Transportation
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Srikanth Ramani; Deidre Henne; Donna Kotsopoulos; Brandon Dickson; Chad Dickson – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This research explores responsible investment practices at Canadian and international universities. We analyze universities' "Statement of Investment Policy and Procedures" and "Responsible Investing Policies" to understand how responsible investing is included and how this varies by region. Our results show that most…
Descriptors: Investment, Foreign Countries, Universities, Financial Policy
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Stephen MacGregor – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Despite the growing interest in knowledge brokering as an approach to mobilising knowledge for societal benefit, research has only recently begun investigating the consequences of knowledge brokers' actions. In particular, while it is known that failure can provide a valuable learning experience for individuals and organisations alike,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Information Dissemination, Foreign Countries, Failure
Scott McLean – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Canadian universities today assert their social relevance through highlighting processes such as community engagement, knowledge mobilization, and the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Much can be learned about such processes through examining an era in which Canadian universities asserted their social relevance through another…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Adult Education, Extension Education
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Eric Lavigne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Leadership in administration does not operate in a vacuum. Every decision comes with consequences for those tasked to make them, and foreseen career consequences, which often materialize during performance evaluations, may support or constrain administrators' leadership. This article explores how and why administrators factor in foreseen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Deans, Leadership
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Annette M. Lane; Jennifer Stephens – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Nursing has employed distance education for decades. In the 21st century, distance programs have often been delivered online. This became even more prevalent since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the preponderance of online nursing courses, the delivery of courses virtually does not necessarily mean that these offerings are intentionally developed…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Nursing Education, COVID-19
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Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
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Stephen MacGregor; David Phipps – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2025
Little is known about the university-based professionals who facilitate research impact and the networks they form to build institutional capacity. This article explores the efforts of Research Impact Canada, a pan-Canadian professional network dedicated to building institutional capacity for research impact across disciplines. Based on interviews…
Descriptors: Networks, Universities, Capacity Building, Research Administration
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Dale Kirby – Journal of International Students, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on university enrollments around the world and caused significant challenges for students. This study examined how Canadian universities responded to the financial impacts of the pandemic on international and domestic students and how these responses differed. This work involved the identification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Marc Schroeder – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
In this essay, I introduce the term "governance inversion" to describe a situation in which a university administration repositions a governance body in such a way as to limit its legitimate governance function. Structural conditions might make governance inversion more likely, but narratives might also be deployed to make the inversion…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Universities, College Governing Councils
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Sugito Sugito – Cogent Education, 2024
The field of transformative learning has garnered significant attention from researchers and practitioners in adult education due to its potential to address the complex and unpredictable challenges of societal change. This study employs a bibliometric approach, analyzing data from the Scopus database covering the years 1992 to 2023, identifying a…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Transformative Learning, Educational Research, Educational Trends
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Porporato, Marcela; Samuels-Jones, Tameka – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use the case of York University in Canada to analyze the connection between University Social Responsibility and voluntary disclosure. The authors examine whether the university's voluntary air emissions disclosure is performative by exploring whether York University's espoused commitment to its community…
Descriptors: Pollution, Social Responsibility, Measurement, Models
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Tristan Bunnell – Educational Studies, 2024
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2022 as an international mobility "passport", offering potential entry to universities around the world. Globally, 3,600 schools in July 2022 offer the IBDP. Within these, there is a sub-grouping of well-established private "elite traditional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Universities, Advanced Placement Programs
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Christie L. Stewart; Sara M. Fulmer – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
The Teaching and Learning Network (TLN) at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, represents an effective network model for faculty and educational leadership development. Grounded in the principles of communities of practice (Wenger, 1998), the TLN is a collaborative network that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, relationship building,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Networks, Universities
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Adam Joseph Barker; Jenny Pickerill – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
This paper asks how can we as geographers, occupying positions of relative privilege but also beholden to institutions entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing colonization, find and embody our responsibilities to Indigenous people and nations and contribute to decolonization within and beyond the academy? We begin by reflecting on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Universities, Indigenous Knowledge
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