Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) |
Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’enseignement supérieur
Date for Release: 29 September 2021
Re: Statement of Commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action from the Board of Directors
Acknowledgement
As the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education’s (CSSHE) (“Societyâ€) Board of Directors, we commit to engage our members and our communities, to bear witness to the past and to the present, and to claim responsibility for taking renewed actions already identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As scholars and practitioners in higher education, we are conscious of our unique position and our capacity to enact and influence change. We also recognize that there are limitations to many of our current perspectives, and that demonstrating cultural humility and openness to listen to Indigenous voices is critical to moving forward.
In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we are announcing our
commitment and our intentions.
Our commitment
We will, in the coming months, bring together scholars, professionals, administrators, and students, along with Indigenous representation, to create an action plan for our scholarly association related to the TRC Calls to Action on Education, which higher education has a role, consistent with the commitments of our Society and our Strategic Plan. This will include:
Through a consultative process, we will endeavour to understand what all our members’ needs are in terms of enacting reconciliation in their practices, and to listen to what Indigenous members’ vision is for a more inclusive and responsive higher education community.
With these actions we aim to deepen our understanding of equity and inclusion in Canadian higher education, to challenge and inspire policymakers, to shape the education of future scholars, professionals, and administrators, and to further expand the community of our Society.
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Background to CSSHE
Through the collective and collaborative work of its members, CSSHE is the leading scholarly society for Canadian higher education as a field of study and practice. Our object of study is the Canadian higher education sector, its institutions, its people, and its processes. Our membership includes scholars, professionals, administrators, and students, who investigate and operate within the higher education sector. Our platforms include an annual meeting of the Society at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Canadian Journal of Higher Education to help us connect people, places, and ideas.
CSSHE is a bilingual network of members who advance the research, scholarship, and practice of higher education in Canada. In order to accomplish this, we disseminate, recognize, and reward the research and scholarly work of our members through various platforms, including an annual conference and a scholarly journal; build a connected and engaged higher education community within the CSSHE membership; and enhance member capacity through resources, professional development, and collaboration within and beyond CSSHE.
The Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education (CSSHE) seeks a graduate student as an intern for a period of one year (October 2021-September 2022) to assist with the association’s communication strategy.
CSSHE is a registered charitable organization, funded through membership fees, subscriptions, donations and a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada whose primary mandate is to promote scholarship related to postsecondary education through publications and scholarly conferences.
The CSSHE internship program offers interns an opportunity to gain hands on experience in coordinating an effective communication strategy for a large national academic society, as well as an opportunity to expand the knowledge and understanding of the field; increase professional networks; and develop one’s own professional career pathways in the field.
Responsibilities
As an active member of the communications committee, your responsibilities will include assistance with and support for:
It is estimated that the intern may work anywhere from 1 to 2 hours per week in the initial 5-6 month period and up to 12-15 hours per week, closer to the 2022 conference.
Qualifications
Education: current or recent graduate student -Masters or PhD – in higher education or related field of study
Experience: excellent written and oral communication skills, relevant experience in communications, advanced computer skills and familiarity with use of social media.
Special requirements: Multi tasker, goal and team-oriented. Added asset: Bilingual English & French.
Honorarium
The internship is a voluntary position with an honorarium of $1500. Conference registration fees will also be covered for the intern. To apply, please send resume and cover letter stating the skills required to: Vicki Squires, Communications Committee Chair at vicki.squires@usask.ca
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Welcome to #CSSHE2021! Here’s a breakdown of Tuesday June 1at the conference:
(ALL TIMES IN MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME)
8:30-16:00 – Greeting Table open
The greeting table will be hosted by a staff or volunteer from Congress and will be your go-to for questions and support navigating the online platform.
8:30-16:00 – CSSHE Lounge open
Network with colleagues and have those ‘hallway moments’! CSSHE leaders will facilitate networking and community building sessions throughout the day in the Lounge, so return here throughout the day to see who you can connect with!
Topic based networking and community building – 10:15-10:45 – Student Development, Experiences and Services; International and Comparative Higher Education; Culture, Civilization, and Communication. Facilitated by Adriana Marroquin, University of Toronto & Vicki Squires, University of Saskatchewan
Addressing current events and systemic racism – 12:00-12:30 – Facilitated by Emma Sabzalieva, UNESCO and York University & Phoebe Kang, University of Toronto
Topic based networking and community building – 15:30-16:00 – Policy, Governance, Funding and Planning; Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning; Administration, Leadership and Institutional Change. Facilitated by Phoebe Kang, University of Toronto & Rhonda Friesen, Booth University College.
Paper Sessions
09.00-10.15 // G1: Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century: Insights and Innovation Across
Continents (Live)
09.00-10.15 // G2: Students’ Identity Formation, Experiences, and Post-Study Choices (Live)
09.00-10.15 // G3: The Growing International Education and Immigration Nexus: Implications for Higher Education (Live)
09.00-10.15 // G4: Connecting Today’s Postsecondary Classroom to the Open Future: Open
Education Resources (OERs) Empower the Teaching of Educational Administration, Policy, and Leadership (Simu-live)
09.00-10.15 // G5: Perspectives of Traditionally Underrepresented Students, Part 3: Programs and Policy (Live)
Annual General Meeting
10.45-12.00 // Flagship 3: CSSHE Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Awards Ceremony
Join CSSHE for the Annual General Meeting and 2021 Awards Ceremony.
CSSHE/Congress delegates: Join from within Virtual Event Place. All other CSSHE members: Join at
https://zoom.us/j/98606618065?pwd=cWxWaGVkc1NFR0VWTkxzNnhZUUo2UT09 (Passcode: 782836)
Paper Sessions
12.30-13.45 // H1: Supporting the Campus Experience of Students with Disabilities (Live)
12.30-13.45 // H2: What Does it Take to Become a Successful Academic? Doctoral Formation and the Scholarly Role (Live)
12.30-13.45 // H3: CSSHE 2021 Award Winners – Celebrate and Learn More! (Live) Moderated by Christine Arnold, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Chair of the 2021 Awards Committee.
12.30-13.45 // H4: What’s at Stake for the Post-Pandemic University Classroom? (Live)
12.30-13.45 // H5: Roundtable: Enabling Early Career Researchers’ Pursuit of an Academic Career (Live)
14.15-15.30 // I1: Non-Academic Work, Internationalization, and Job Satisfaction: The
Experiences of Professors in Canada (Live)
14.15-15.30 // I2: CSSHE 2020 Award Winners – Celebrate and Learn More! (Live) Moderated by Michelle Nilson, Simon Fraser University, Chair of the 2020 Awards Committee
14.15-15.30 // I3: Exploring Approaches to Pedagogies (Live)
14.15-15.30 // I4: Story-telling: Stories about Assessment and Impact (Live)
14.15-15.30 // I5: Priorities Paradox: Interrogating Campus, Connecting with Community (Live)
VIEW THE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Access all sessions directly through the online platform by clicking Programme/Auditorium in the CSSHE menu (Found under Association Hall A). Contact Congress using the live support function or email info.congress21@gmail.com with any technical challenges!
Welcome to #CSSHE2021! Here’s a breakdown of Monday May 31 at the conference:
(ALL TIMES IN MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME)
8:30-16:00 – Greeting Table open
The greeting table will be hosted by a staff or volunteer from Congress and will be your go-to for questions and support navigating the online platform.
8:30-16:00 – CSSHE Lounge open
Network with colleagues and have those ‘hallway moments’! CSSHE leaders will facilitate networking and community building sessions throughout the day in the Lounge, so return here throughout the day to see who you can connect with!
Topic based networking and community building – 10:15-10:45 – Student Access, Pathways and Transitions; Academic Professions and Pathways; History & Philosophy of Higher Education. Facilitated by Alyson King, Ontario Tech University & David Peacock, University of Alberta
Post-study employment options – 12:00-12:30 – Facilitated by Emma Sabzalieva, UNESCO and York University & You Zhang, University of Toronto
Canadian Higher Education Quiz – 15:30-16:00 – Facilitated by Grace Karram Stephenson, University of Toronto & Leping Mou, University of Toronto
Paper Sessions
09.00-10.15 // D1: Perspectives of Traditionally Underrepresented Students, Part 2: Access and
Acculturation (Live)
09.00-10.15 // D2: Research from Grant-hunting to Funding to Perceptions of Knowledge
Production (Live)
09.00-10.15 // D3: Priorities Paradox: Stakeholders, Talent, Credentials (Live)
09.00-10.15 // D4: Diversification of Chinese Universities Serves Diverse Stakeholders (Live)
09.00-10.15 // D5: Differentiation and Variation in Private Higher Education Cross-Nationally: A
Flipped, Interactive Panel (Live)
Flagship Session
10.45-12.00 // Flagship 2: Enabling Indigenous Scholarship in Canadian Higher Education
Fully open access. CSSHE/Congress delegates: Join from within Virtual Event Place. All others: Join at
https://zoom.us/j/92013601123?pwd=M1RDR0h4TG4rV0I2T1RFRFAwWWJGdz09 (passcode: J8K8qC)
Sponsored by the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Education. Session will be recorded and made available on the CSSHE website after the conference.
Panellists:
Moderator: Deborah Saucier, President and Vice-Chancellor of Vancouver Island University
Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair & Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
Florence Glanfield, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming & Research), University of Alberta (she/her)
Tosh Southwick, Independent Consultant and former Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Engagement and Reconciliation, Yukon University (she/her)
Paper Sessions
12.30-13.45 // E1: Career Development and the Academic Profession in Canadian Universities
(Live)
12.30-13.45 // E2: Strategies and Approaches in Internationalization and Regionalization (Live)
12.30-13.45 // E3: Examining Research on Models of Plurilingual/EAL Student Language and
Literacy Support in Canadian Higher Education (Live)
12:30-13:45 // E4: Stories from the Learning Space: Student Reflections on Their Experiences in
an Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (Simu-Live)
12.30-13.45 // E5: Priorities Paradox: Student Services, Support, Success (Live)
14.15-15.30 // F1: 2021 Presidential Session (Live)
Fully open access. CSSHE/Congress delegates: Join from within Virtual Event Place. All other CSSHE members: Join at
https://zoom.us/j/98516130106?pwd=Y3NSdm5IdWorU2p6azF5WHI5UmF2UT09 (Passcode: 113625)
Panellists:
David Peacock, University of Alberta (Moderator)
Mike DeGagné, Indspire
Val Walker, Business Higher Education Roundtable
Andrea Dicks, Community Foundations Canada
Duncan Phillips, Mitacs
Chad Lubelsky, McConnell Foundation
14.15-15.30 // F2: Uncertainties and Challenges: Covid-19 and Beyond (Live)
14.15-15.30 // F3: Networking conversation (Live)
14.15-15.30 // F4: Ask Me Anything: Employability skill development in higher education (Live)
14.15-15.30 // F5: Workshop – Critical Wikipedia Creation: Combining Scholarly Publication in
Wikipedia Creation (Live)
VIEW THE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Access all sessions directly through the online platform by clicking Programme/Auditorium in the CSSHE menu (Found under Association Hall A). Contact Congress using the live support function or email info.congress21@gmail.com with any technical challenges!
Welcome to #CSSHE2021! Here’s a breakdown of Sunday May 30 at the conference:
(ALL TIMES IN MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME)
8:30-16:00 – Greeting Table open
The greeting table will be hosted by a staff or volunteer from Congress and will be your go-to for questions and support navigating the online platform.
8:30-16:00 – CSSHE Lounge open
Network with colleagues and have those ‘hallway moments’! CSSHE leaders will facilitate networking and community building sessions throughout the day in the Lounge, so return here throughout the day to see who you can connect with!
Meet-up & Greeting – 10:15-10:45
Topic based networking and community building – 12:00-12:30 – Theories & Methods in Understanding Higher Education; Uncertainties, Challenges, and Visions for the Future; Community Engagement and Partnership; Facilitated by Rhonda Friesen, Booth University College & Vicki Squires, University of Saskatchewan
First time at CSSHE? – 15:30-16:00 – Facilitated by Jacqueline Beaulieu, University of Toronto & Kathleen Matheos, University of Manitoba
Paper Sessions
09.00-10.15 // A1: Global Perspectives on International Students (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A2: Community Engagement and Partnerships (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A3: Bridging Divides in Higher Education through Visual Research Methods (Simulive)
09.00-10.15 // A4: From Study to Industry: Partnerships, Politics, and Perspectives (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A5: Organizational Change, Restructuring, and Mission Shift (Live)
Flagship 1
10.45-12.00 // Flagship 1: Confronting Privilege in Internationalization of Higher Education during
COVID-19: What have we learned?
Fully open access. CSSHE/Congress delegates: Join from within Virtual Event Place. All others: Join at
https://zoom.us/j/95609700387?pwd=OFIwcVB4cUNPOUFKWGtvUGVCUnNCZz09 (Passcode: 173756)
Co-hosted by CSSHE & CIESC/SCECI. Supported by the Federation Interdisciplinary Fund. Session will be recorded and made available on the CSSHE website after the conference.
Panellists:
Discussant: Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University.
Crain Soudier, Chief Executive Officer, Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
Christina W. Yao, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Higher Education & Student Affairs, Department of
Educational Leadership and Policies, University of South Carolina (USA)
Thashika Pillay, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University (Canada)
Paper Sessions
12.30-13.45 // B1: Advising and Administration as Process and Career (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B2: Pathways and Experiences of International Students (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B3: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Higher Education (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B4: Rech. francophone canadienne (1ère partie): Stratégies et Planification dans
les Institutions et les Systèmes (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B5: Navigating Leadership in Higher Education (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C1: Perspectives of Traditionally Underrepresented Students, Part 1: Inclusion and
Identity (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C2: Decision Making and Negotiation in Higher Education Politics and Policy (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C3: What’s Working? Evaluating Teaching, Learning, and Campus Services (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C4: Rech. francophone canadienne (2e partie) : Etudiant(e)s et Pedagogie:
Approches, Adaptation, et Satisfaction
14.15-15.30 // C5: Story-telling: Stories about Support, Care, and Community Building (Live)
VIEW THE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Access all sessions directly through the online platform by clicking Programme/Auditorium in the CSSHE menu (Found under Association Hall A). Contact Congress using the live support function or email info.congress21@gmail.com with any technical challenges!
The CSSHE 2021 Annual Conference Program is now available!
Note: all times shown are in MDT.
As you plan your time at the CSSHE 2021 Conference, be sure to check out the Flagship Events, Presidential Session, on-demand presentations, posters, and Ignite presentations alongside your live paper presentation panels!
See you on May 30!
All members of CSSHE are invited to attend the 2021 Annual General Meeting.
https://zoom.us/j/98606618065?pwd=cWxWaGVkc1NFR0VWTkxzNnhZUUo2UT09
Meeting ID: 986 0661 8065
Passcode: 782836
A warm welcome to all #CSSHE2021 presenters and attendees! The 51st Annual CSSHE Conference begins on May 30, 2021 and we are thrilled to welcome delegates from 74 institutions in 15 countries. This year’s conference features over 200 presentations from domestic and international delegates, graduate students, researchers and practitioners in higher education.
If you haven’t already, register for #CSSHE2021, and view the conference program. Follow us on Twitter for updates leading up to the conference!
Thank to you all participants who joined us for the 50th Anniversary Webinar on May 6, 2021. For more past event recordings, click here.
Register for #CSSHE2021 Annual Conference today! The final conference program is now available.
Join CSSHE for the 2021 Presidential Session at the annual CSSHE conference: Experiential Learning and the Future of the Social Non-Profit Sector
May 31, 2021 2:15-3:30pm MST
Across Canada, non-profit social organizations have been at the forefront of the responses to both COVID-19 and racial injustices this past year. Community engaged learning, community-based learning and other forms of experiential learning explicitly designed to boost the capacity of the not-for-profit sector can also play a crucial role in an equitable pandemic recovery. This session highlights the funding, policy, and partnership opportunities for experiential learning and community campus engagement as part of the recovery efforts.
With speakers:
David Peacock, University of Alberta (Moderator)
Mike DeGagné, Indspire
Val Walker, Business Higher Education Roundtable
Andrea Dicks, Community Foundations Canada
Duncan Phillips, Mitacs
Chad Lubelsky, McConnell Foundation
Read the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
Articles
Work Hard, Party Hard: Harm Reduction in a Postsecondary Setting
Victoria Ford, Alyssa Wooster, Mary Bartram (1-14)
Les acquis de la formation doctorale: perceptions des compétences développées
Marcelline Bangali (15-27)
Perspectives of Canadian Distance Educators on the Move to Online Learning
Cindy Ives, Pamela Walsh (28-40)
Accommodations and academic performance: First-year university students with disabilities
Jeanette Parsons, Mary Ann McColl, Andrea K. Martin, David W. Rynard (41-56)
Sessional Contract Faculty, Unionization, and Academic Freedom
Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage, James Watson (57-70)
Intersecting Roadmaps: Resolving Tension Between Profession-Specific and University-Wide Graduate Attributes
Samira ElAtia, Jason P. Carey, Marnie Jamieson, Bashair Alibrahim, Marcus Ivey (71-98)
Book Reviews
Book Review of “International Education as Public Policy in Canada”
Ruth Hayhoe (99-100)
Book Review of “Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education”
Lianne Fisher (101-102)
Book review of “The Finest Blend: Graduate Education in Canada”
Alison Elizabeth Jefferson (103-105)
Celebrating 50 years of both the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education (CSSHE) and the Canadian Journal of Higher Education (CJHE)
Thank you to the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development at the University of Manitoba for supporting this webinar.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 12-1.30pm EST
REGISTER NOW: https://my.demio.com/ref/7MS3mjj2bd03k0cI
Moderators:
Speakers:
Sheila Brown is President Emerita of Mount Saint Vincent University, having served two terms as its 9th President. She continues to be actively involved in professional development programs for university leaders. She is a long time member of CSSHE, and served as a Board member 1996-2000, Vice-President 2000-01, President 2001-04 and Past President 2004-05. She was named Distinguished Member in 2006.
Dr. Kathleen Clarke is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she mainly teaches in the Master of Education – Student Affairs Field of Study. She graduated with her PhD in Higher Education from OISE/University of Toronto in 2019. Kathleen served as the Graduate Student Representative for the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education for three years (2014-2017), during which time she was the Local Area Coordinator for the annual conference at Brock (2014) and conference co-chair at the University of Ottawa (2015) and the University of Calgary (2016). She also regularly presents at the annual conference for the society on topics related to graduate education, students with disabilities, and students’ mental health.
Dr. Amira El Masri is the Director of the Center for Global Education and Internationalization at Sheridan. She’s been an active CSSHE member since 2013. She was a member of the CSSHE Conference Planning Committee for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) and is currently an elected member of CSSHE Board of Directors. She was the winner of the 2020 CSSHE Geis Doctoral Dissertation Award for her doctoral dissertation “International education as policy: A discourse coalition framework analysis of the construction, context, and empowerment of Ontario’s international education storylinesâ€.
Alexander (Sandy) Gregor, retired from the University of Manitoba as Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Division of Postsecondary Studies and Director of Centre for Higher Education Research and Development (CHERD). Currently, part of Senior College at the University of Toronto, as a Founding Fellow; and Editor of the Senior College Encyclopedia.
Was President CSSHE (1986-87) and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education in the 1990’s; and for a time CSSHE Executive Secretary, when the Society and Journal were administered through CHERD.
Glen A. Jones is professor of higher education and dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He was President of the CSSHE in 1996-97 and co-editor of the CJHE from 1997-1999. He received the CSSHE Research Award in 2001 and the Distinguished Member Award in 2011. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Manitoba in recognition of his contributions to the study of higher education in Canada.
Eric Lavigne is the Coordinator of Program Development at Université de l’Ontario français, the Editor of the French section of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, and a lecturer in OISE’s Higher Education program. His research interests gravitate around higher education administration, organizational theory, and micropolitics.
Dear Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education members,
We hope that this finds you and those in your care all keeping well. On March 23, 2021, the CSSHE Board of Directors and CSSHE 2021 Conference Committee held a joint meeting to discuss the Black Canadian Studies Association’s (BCSA) decision to withdraw from Congress 2020 and 2021 (https://twitter.com/BlkCdnSA/status/1359136941346816006?s=20).
We understand, respect, and support the decision of the BCSA to withdraw from Congress again this year. (Last year, the BCSA withdrew from Congress in protest against the structural racism of the response to the 2019 incident and the inequities that a virtual conference would present.) We also respectfully acknowledge and are grateful for the work of those individuals and societies who have decided to withdraw in solidarity.
In light of these developments and discussions, the CSSHE Board of Directors has chosen to continue engaging with Congress in order to contribute to change and hold our profession and societies accountable as an expression of our shared commitments and values. CSSHE will continue to critically reflect, and to action our values, to create a more just society. We respect the views shared and wish to highlight just a couple of our Society’s most recent commitments as follows:
We recognize that the intersection of structural racism and the pandemic, both in the effects on health as well as economic security, has disproportionately affected communities with large proportions of racialized people, as well as those who are economically disadvantaged. This year, the CSSHE Board of Directors, working through its committees:
We hope to continue this work and invite you to join us at our AGM and Awards Ceremony (Tuesday June 1, 2021, 10.45am-12.00pm Mountain Daylight Time), where we will take some time to reflect on the role that higher education has played in reinforcing systemic racism and how we can continue to address this in our profession and scholarship. In advance of that discussion, we invite you to read the Congress Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (AC-EDID) Report and Recommendations, Igniting Change and to sign the Charter on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
For those who are unable to attend or would prefer to share their ideas, questions, or critiques through other means, we invite you to email, video chat, or set up a time to talk by phone.
With gratitude,
CSSHE Board of Directors
