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2018 Year in Review 2018 Canadian Higher Ed Year in Review Table of Contents 3 A Look Back Before Moving Forward 3 Student Evaluations of Teaching Take a Big Hit 4 PSE Delivery in Canada’s North 5 Higher Ed in Ontario Under Doug Ford 6 Pressure on Senior Admin in the West 7 Cannabis Comes to Campus 8 #MeToo in Canadian Higher Ed 10 The Power of Place 11 Skills and the School-to-Work Transition 12 The Challenges of Indigenization 14 The International Student Experience 15 What to Look for in 2019 2 A Look Back Before and promotion. Moving Forward In an op-ed that was covered in the May 7th edition of the Top Ten, Northwestern University Happy New Year to all the members of Law Professor Michelle Falkoff highlighted A the higher ed community in Canada and mounting evidence suggesting that student beyond. We look forward to sharing many evaluations of teaching are rife with gender and incredible stories with you in 2019, but for now, racial biases. The author also cited recent research we’d like to take a look back at what happened suggesting that students were becoming more in the year that was. likely to use abusive language when describing their teachers’ performance in the classroom. We selected the top ten stories of 2018 using Falkoff’s criticism was quickly followed, however, the same process we use for choosing stories by another op-ed in which Grand View University in our daily Top Ten and Indigenous Top Ten History Professor Kevin Gannon argued that publications. To begin, we drew on the expertise when student biases are accounted for, teaching of our team of researchers and consultants, evaluations can still provide important information who spent 2018 working with post-secondary to teachers looking to improve the classroom schools all across Canada to solve institutional experience. challenges and move higher ed forward. We combined this expert insight with user traffic Just over a week later, Colleen Flaherty of data gathered from 30,000+ Top Ten readers and Inside Higher Ed published a piece stating that over 7.5 million Top Ten emails that went out in student evaluations of teaching were in need 2018, creating a selection process that draws on of a significant overhaul. Flaherty highlighted unparalleled access to both an on-the-ground several US institutions that had implemented more understanding and bird’s-eye-view of the biggest nuanced tools to measure teaching success on a challenges and opportunities facing Canadian holistic scale that emphasized learning outcomes. higher ed. Early in July, the website RateMyProfessors.com Without further adieu, here are the top announced that it would be removing its infamous stories of 2018... “chili pepper” icon, which had previously allowed students to rank their professors by level of physical attractiveness. Even after the symbol’s Student Evaluations of removal, critics continued to express concern about the site due to the anonymity of its users Teaching Take a Big Hit and the growing skepticism around the value of student evaluations of professors. idway through 2018, we saw a surge in M stories questioning the reliability of student All of this debate in the US was a prelude to assessments of post-secondary teaching. The a landmark decision that would be made by a emerging consensus appears to be that while Canadian arbitrator overseeing a case between student evaluations of teaching can provide Ryerson University and the Ryerson Faculty instructors with useful feedback on how to Association. In a precedent-setting ruling, improve their classes, the persistent evidence of arbitrator William Kaplan declared that the racial and gendered bias makes them unreliable university could no longer use faculty course as a measurement of teaching effectiveness, or surveys for the purposes of measuring teaching as an evaluation tool for the purposes of tenure effectiveness for promotion or tenure. Kaplan 3 noted that student evaluations of teaching were Indigenous Governance in partnership with all 14 still important to the mission of the university Yukon First Nations and it is much stronger due and could indicate engagement and satisfaction. to their guidance and input,” explained Yukon He determined, however, that as a measurement President Karen Barnes, adding that the program of teaching effectiveness, these evaluations were would see students benefit from the experience “downright biased and unreliable at worst.” The and insight of YK First Nations leaders, Elders, and move was applauded by faculty from across former Chiefs. This development was followed less Canada, including Canadian Association of than a month later by a piece from the Canadian University Teachers Executive Director David Press calling for more degree-granting powers in Robinson, who noted that “it’s wonderful that the Canadian North. reason has prevailed,” adding that the arbiter’s conclusion would “unleash debate at universities In the neighbouring Northwest Territories, across the country.” however, debate was emerging around the future of Aurora College, a primary provider of post- secondary education to NWT. It was announced PSE Delivery in in August of 2017 that the school would undergo a broad review to determine its ongoing viability Canada’s North and best strategic direction. It was decided that proposed cuts to the college’s teacher education was a major year in the ongoing and social work programs would be deferred until 2018 discussions about how post- the review’s completion. In May of 2018, however, secondary education should be delivered to the school’s president Jane Arychuk resigned those living or studying in the Canadian North. her post just weeks before the NWT’s legislative In the Academica Top Ten and Indigenous Top assembly was scheduled to discuss the report’s Ten, two stories in particular dominated the findings. headlines: the push to offer university degrees in Canada’s North, and the future of Aurora College, The review reportedly found problems with student an institution that provides adult and post- housing, daycare facilities, and inter-campus secondary education in the Northwest Territories. communications, and recommended that the college be converted to a polytechnic that would In late December of 2017, Yukon College learned be moved from the college’s current home in Fort that it had been recognized by the Campus Smith to Yellowknife. “I think that this a long time Alberta Quality Council as being ready to deliver coming, and I’m really excited that this review and sustain high-quality undergraduate degree actually has some recommendations — not only programs. The recognition stemmed from a complaining about what we aren’t doing right, partnership established earlier in the year but where we need to move forward,” said NWT between the Governments of Yukon and Alberta, Education Minister Caroline Cochrane. Yellowknife with YK saying that this would be the first time Centre MLA Julie Green, however, expressed that a post-secondary institution in any territory concern about the scope of the recommendations. had been evaluated to grant degree programs. The review was accompanied by news that In May of 2018, the college announced that it Aurora’s social work and teacher education would begin accepting students for the first ever programs would remain suspended pending a “made-in-Yukon” degree program after receiving further budget review. approval from the YK government for its new Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Governance. Residents of Fort Smith, NWT pushed back against “We have developed the Bachelor of Arts in the recommendation that the college be moved 4 to Yellowknife. Others pushed back against the the province. Before Ford’s party had taken power, suspension of the school’s social worker program. Creso Sá of OISE at the University of Toronto Residents of Inuvik also raised concerns about published a piece in which he claimed that “no what would happen to Aurora’s campus in their one is holding their breath in anticipation of big town should the school move its operations ideas or transformative change,” although Sá to Yellowknife. Caroline Cochrane reassured did predict that Ford would attempt to take on community members that neither the Fort Smith the apparent crisis of free speech on Canadian nor the Inuvik campuses would be closed. campuses in order to please his political base. In October, a 60-page review prepared by the This prediction would later come to fruition. In NWT government found that Aurora’s social work September, Ford’s government told the province’s program should be both restarted and expanded. universities and colleges that they would need to The review was released by MLA Julie Green, develop and implement free speech policies by the who told reporters that she needed to obtain the beginning of the new year or face funding cuts. report through an access to information request The government stated that the Higher Education after alleging that the Department of Education Quality Council of Ontario would be in charge of had refused to share it with her. The report stated monitoring compliance with the legislation starting that social workers were in high demand in NWT, in September 2019. and that the program should be restarted and expanded in order to help meet this demand. Critics and skeptics were quick to point out that the dictate was sparse on details and that Later, the NWT released its official response to it was unclear how the government planned to the review of Aurora College, noting that it would interpret or enforce it. Chris Selley of the Ottawa accept 51 of the report’s 61 recommendations, Citizen contended that the move was “mostly including the proposal to turn Aurora into a harmless symbolism”. The Canadian Association polytechnic university. According to CBC, the of University Teachers, however, didn’t see the report’s most controversial recommendation— policy as being quite so harmless.
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