Testing literacy today requires more than a pencil and paper.

SSHRC's annual Storytellers contest challenges postsecondary students from across the country to tell the story-in three minutes or in 300 words-of how SSHRC-funded research is making a difference in the lives of Canadians. The stories highlight how knowledge about the social sciences and humanities helps Canadians understand and improve the world.

Canadian Federal government sends an encouraging sign on outbound student mobility. The recent budget announcement means Canadian students won't be left behind when it comes to studying abroad.

LHAE student, Desiree Sylvestre has been recognized for her work supporting marginalized youth in STEM by Visions of Science.
Their community leader award recognizes her work with the Rivertowne community. Desiree won the 2019 Program Facilitator of the Year Award.

The Burstow Scholarship for Research into Antisemitism is a perennial scholarship to be awarded annually to an OISE student doing research into antisemitism.

Congratulations to Umme Juthi Jamila, Chizoba Imoka and Henry Ssali, this year's recipients of the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award Established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University Advancement, the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards recognize students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole.

CLSEW Speaker Series

Barb MacQuarrie will examine how survivors of gendered workplace violence, family members of victims of gendered workplace violence, academics, the labour movement and women's advocates have collaborated over the years to bring awareness to the problem and bring about legislative and policy changes to address it.

A study co-authored by Higher Ed Professor and OISE Dean, Glen Jones, finds that government regulation and accountability measures have been increasing across five provinces

ELP Professor Carol Campbell explains why the Fraser Institute's rankings of Ontario elementary schools are problematic

Kindergarten teacher reacts to government consulting on class size caps (CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway)
Listen: ELP Professor and Chair Nina Bascia weighs in on the impact of increasing class sizes

Professor Stephanie Waterman has won the NASPA Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award for her dedication to Indigenous graduate student success and work in Indigenous student affairs

New paper on "Provincial Oversight and University Autonomy in Canada" from OISE research team.

Conference Dates: June 24-25, 2019
We invite submissions engaging in one or more of the conference themes of quality, reciprocity, and inclusivity as they relate to shaping a sustainable future for internationalization in higher education. Dedaline: January 25, 2019

The University of Toronto ranks highest in Canada in nine different subjects, and is one of only eight universities in the world to place in the top 50 across 11 subjects, according to new rankings by the prestigious Times Higher Education.

Professor Mundy teaches Comparative and International Education

Prof. Marvin Zuker,a former judge of the Ontario Court of Justice, says the consent of both the judge and opposing counsel and party should be obtained before a judge could appear as counsel.

Prof Lance McCready authored the "Youth Employment" section of the report: Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s, first authored by Dr. Dirk Rodricks and Dr. Kathleen Gallagher.

Read Findings and Recommendations from the Independent Review of Assessment and Reporting, Ontario: A Learning Province

Rabble online article reviews OISE conference "The Psychiatrization of Indigenous People as a Continuation of Genocide". Watch the keynote address by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, Indigenous Scholar, member of the Oneida Nation and professor at St. Thomas University.

A new scholarship has been established at OISE by Dr. Bonnie Burstow. Burstow's Scholarship for Research into Violence Against Indigenous Women: In Memory of Helen Betty Osborne will be directed to a graduate student whose thesis focuses on violence against Indigenous women. Priority will be given to students who are themselves Indigenous women.

AECD Professor, Shahrzad Mojab is scholar, teacher and activist internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement and violence on women's learning and education; gender, state, migration and diaspora; Marxist feminism and anti-racism pedagogy.

In the six years that she's been in Canada, Sara Asalya has been making a mark within the student immigrant community.

AECD Professor Lance McCready has been appointed Interim Director of the University of Toronto's Transitional Year Program. This important program helps adults without a high school diploma qualify for university admission.

A new program by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development seeks to address the gender gap in university leadership and encourage women to pursue higher academic administrative roles. The first of its kind in Canada, the program will operate out of Winnipeg, Manitoba this fall. Higher Ed Professor Angela Hildyard weighs in.

In a recent op-ed, OISE doctoral student Sachin Maharaj argues that eliminating elite specialized public schools may help reduce racial disparities in school systems. "Policies and programs that have the effect of dividing students along lines like race and socioeconomic status, and that create exclusive benefits for small groups of students, should have no place in a publicly funded education system," said Maharaj.

Established in 2003, this award is granted to one graduating doctoral student annually whose work demonstrates research excellence and advances knowledge in the field of education in an impactful way.

An important context for this article are battles in which Professor Burstow partook from 2006 until a couple of years ago which led to the creation of the world's first antipsychiatry scholarship at University of Toronto.

Last spring, the University of Toronto undertook its first ever Alumni Impact Survey. The goal was to measure the ways our diverse and multitalented alumni contribute to society.

Earlier this month, the Council of Canadian Academies released a report - Competing in a Global Innovation Economy: The Current State of R&D in Canada, the latest installment in this tradition.