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Opinion: Quebec cuts to employment services harm anglo youth
Montreal’s nearly 700,000 English speakers, particularly youth and visible minorities, are facing soaring unemployment and deepening poverty — a crisis likely to worsen with threats of draconian U.S. tariffs battering the Canadian economy.
Québécois anglophones | Ambassadeurs potentiels de la langue française
Le récent plan d’action du gouvernement du Québec pour la préservation de la langue française1,2 repose sur une hypothèse alarmante : que seules les personnes dont la langue maternelle est le français peuvent réellement contribuer à l’avenir du Québec. Au cours des dernières décennies, les craintes concernant le déclin du français et les efforts des gouvernements successifs pour inverser cette tendance ont dominé le projet de construction de la nation québécoise.
Le succès du Québec passe par celui de sa population anglophone
Au milieu des batailles linguistiques qui déchirent le Québec, une vérité financière désagréable est souvent perdue de vue : le Québec ne peut prospérer dans l’économie mondiale si les Québécois d’expression anglaise – environ 15 % de sa population – ne trouvent pas pleinement leur place sur le marché de l’emploi.
Graduate programs should require pedagogy courses: Opinion
Graduate programs often insufficiently prepare their students for academic teaching careers, write Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca S Natow, Nicholas P Salter, and Shayla Shorter for The Chronicle of Higher Ed. After surveying a selection of history, psychology, and biology doctoral programs in the US, the authors found that few programs required students to take credit-bearing courses on teaching.
Advice | Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy
Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to do in the college classroom. After years of calls for reform, we wondered, is that disconnect still the case? Plenty of essays, social-media posts, and books like Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour have tackled the lack of formal training that professors receive on teaching.
Advice | Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy
Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to do in the college classroom. After years of calls for reform, we wondered, is that disconnect still the case? Plenty of essays, social-media posts, and books like Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour have tackled the lack of formal training that professors receive on teaching.
Opinion: Protect French with training opportunities, not coercion
Bill 96's enforcement measures on French in the workplace should be delayed, and more support provided for English-speakers seeking to improve their French. Author of the article: • Special to Montreal Gazette Article content Is Quebec a good place to learn French? The answer to this question may be surprising: not nearly good enough. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Getting to the Heart of AATS 2021
Getting to the Heart of AATS 2021 Aubrey C Galloway, MD • Adult Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery May 10, 2021 Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. The 101st annual meeting of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) was recently held on April 30–May 2, 2021.
Focusing on Perioperative Care at AATS 2021
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. In April 2021, American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) President Marc Moon, MD, bid farewell to a virtual audience from Washington University in St. Louis after leading and navigating the complexities of a year dominated by COVID-19.
From Genetic Analysis to Elephant Trunks, The News from AATS 2021
From Genetic Analysis to Elephant Trunks, The News from AATS 2021 T. Brett Reece, MD MBA • Adult Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Surgery, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Cardiovascular Surgery May 10, 2021 Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. The 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) was held from April 30 to May 2, 2021.
Why Do We Reduce Our Patients to Words?
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. “He’s a cirrhotic on warfarin.” The surgeon repeated this sentence many times to the bewildered staff around him as the patient continued to bleed after many attempts to stop it. Nothing he said was incorrect. The patient had cirrhosis and was on warfarin, a blood thinner.
Think Crisis, Think Female, and the Glass Cliff | Lead Read Today
Earlier, I wrote about “think manager, think male” – the idea that people associate men and masculine characteristics with leadership. In general, men are often thought of as (and promoted to) leadership positions more so than women. However, what do Ellen Pao, Marissa Mayer and Theresa May all have in common? Yes, they are all women leaders … but they were also all appointed to leadership positions during times of difficulty. Is this a coincidence? Research suggests this is not uncommon.
From Passion to Impact: Inside a Growing Push to Help Individual Donors Get More Strategic
“We have an infrastructure mismatch in our sector,” Stephanie Gillis of the Raikes Foundation told me. The vast majority of the charitable dollars in the U.S.—more than 70 percent—come from individual donors, yet most of the learning networks, resources and discussion around strategic, higher-impact philanthropy support professional staff from foundations and corporate philanthropy.
From Passion to Impact: Inside a Growing Push to Help Individual Donors Get More Strategic
“We have an infrastructure mismatch in our sector,” Stephanie Gillis of the Raikes Foundation told me. The vast majority of the charitable dollars in the U.S.—more than 70 percent—come from individual donors, yet most of the learning networks, resources and discussion around strategic, higher-impact philanthropy support professional staff from foundations and corporate philanthropy.
Is Impact Investing the Next Big Thing for Donor-Advised Funds?
Sweet beginnings is a workforce development company in chicago that's benefitted from impact investments. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 2, 2018. Private foundations have been taking bolder steps toward impact investing in recent years.But with more individuals turning to donor-advised funds (DAFs) to facilitate their giving, how can those funds also be invested today to improve the world?
Is Impact Investing the Next Big Thing for Donor-Advised Funds?
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on April 2, 2018. Private foundations have been taking bolder steps toward impact investing in recent years. But with more individuals turning to donor-advised funds (DAFs) to facilitate their giving, how can those funds also be invested today to improve the world? That’s an important and intriguing question I’ve heard from donors and leaders in the philanthropy and impact investing sectors.
Better Business: How Funders Can Achieve Big Impact Outside the Policy Arena
Progressive donors passionate about social change are understandably drawn to the political and policy space. Elected leaders, government policy and public institutions (and their large budgets) have a massive effect on our lives and either reinforce or dismantle key structural barriers. We also hope for our public institutions and leaders to share and reflect our values.
Better Business: How Funders Can Achieve Big Impact Outside the Policy Arena — Inside Philanthropy
Progressive donors passionate about social change are understandably drawn to the political and policy space. Elected leaders, government policy and public institutions (and their large budgets) have a massive effect on our lives and either reinforce or dismantle key structural barriers. We also hope for our public institutions and leaders to share and reflect our values.
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