The Edward F. Sheffield Award was named in honour of Ted Sheffield, the first Professor of Higher Education in Canada (University of Toronto), and founding President of CSSHE. The award recognizes the best research article published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education each year.
The editorial team selects the winner using the following criteria: centrality and relevance of the issue addressed to CJHE mission; originality and creativity in the use of theory and application of theory; appropriateness of the research methodology; clarity of the argument; effectiveness of the presentation, organization, and style; strength of conclusions; and relevance and significance to Canadian higher education.
Year Author(s) Title
2025
Roberta de Oliveira Soares,
Marie-Odile Magnan
“I didn’t know what to do, where to go”: The voices of students whose parents were born in Latin America on the need for care in Quebec universities
2024
2023 Lesley Andres
Higher Education and the Marriage Market: Educational Attainment, Educational Homogamy, and Inequality
2022 Victoria Ford, Alyssa Wooster, and Mary Bartram
Work Hard, Party Hard: Harm Reduction in a Postsecondary Setting
2021 J. Paul Grayson
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Maclean’s, NSSE, and the Inappropriate Ranking of Canadian Universities
2020
Bessma Momani, Emma Dreher, and Kira Williams
More Than a Pipeline Problem: Evaluating the Gender Pay Gap in Canadian Academia from 1996 to 2016
2019 Karen Robson, Paul Anisef, Robert S. Brown, and Rhonda George
Underrepresented Students and the Transition to Postsecondary Education: Comparing Two Toronto Cohorts
2018 Rochelle Wijesingha and Howard Ramos
Human Capital or Cultural Taxation: What Accounts for Differences in Tenure and Promotion of Racialized and Female Faculty?
2017 Pierre Gilles Piché and Glen Jones
Institutional Diversity in Ontario’s University Sector: A Policy Debate Analysis
2016 Camie Augustus
Knowledge Liaisons: Negotiating Multiple Pedagogies in Global Indigenous Studies Courses
2015 Michelle Pidgeon, Jo-ann Archibald, Colleen Hawkey
Relationships matter: Supporting Aboriginal graduate students in British Columbia, Canada
2014 Patrick Pelletier
La logique institutionnelle d’appropriation du concept ThinkPad university : le cas des écoles et facultés de gestion qu é b é coises
2013 Emery J. Hyslop-Margison
Post Neo-Liberalism and the Humanities: What the Repressive State Apparatus Means for Universities
2012 Rozzet Jurdi
Academic Dishonesty in the Canadian Classroom: Behaviours of a Sample of University Students
2011 Michael Skolnik
A Look Back at the Decision on the Transfer Function at the Founding of Ontario’s Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology
2010 Laura Servage
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Neo-Liberalization of Higher Education: Constructing the Entrepreneurial Learner
2009 David Marshall
Differentiation by Degrees: System Design and the Changing Undergraduate Environment in Canada
2008 Michael Ornstein
Promotion at Canadian Universities: The Intersection of Gender, Discipline and Institution
2007 Julia Christensen
Academic Misconduct within Higher Education in Canada
2006 Charles Bélanger
National Innovation and the Role of the College Sector
2005 J. Paul Grayson
The relationship between grades and academic program satisfaction over four years of study
2004 John Levin
Two British Columbia university colleges and the process of economic globalization
2003 Art Budros
Do university presidents make a difference? A strategic leadership theory of university entrenchment
2002 Lesley Andres
Transfer from community college to university: Perspectives and experiences of British Columbia students
2001 Mathieu Albert
Strat é gies d’apatation des organismes subventionnaires en sciences humaines et sociles au Canada et au Qu é bec aux compressions budg é taires gouvernementales
2000 L. McAlpine,
Monitoring student cues: Tracking student behaviour in order to improve instruction in higher education
1999 Derek Hum
Tenure, faculty contracts, and bargaining conflicts
1998 Lena McCourtie
Philosophical literacy: Dialogue on a pedagogical experiment
1997 Irene Karpiak
Ghosts in wilderness: Problems and priorities of faculty at mid career and mid-life
1996 E. L. Donaldson
Retaining women students in science involves more than course selection
1995 James Dean
An evaluation of pay equity reports at five Canadian universities
1994 Brent McKeown
The point of view of the student in attrition research
1993 Steve O. Michael
Entrepreneurial activities in postsecondary education
