June 1, 2021 Hello and welcome. Thank you for joining us today for the 2021 Virtual Pride Kick Off, hosted by Positive Space for the university community. My name is Dan Cantiller, and my pronouns are he/him. I am an out and proud member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. I have…

Updated April 29, 2021 Abstract Students, faculty and staff who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) experience unique challenges learning and working within Canadian postsecondary institutions. Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, and with ongoing incidents of racial and political unrest, awareness about trauma…

February 27, 2021 Although I somewhat enrolled in the CINT905 course last minute on a whim, it proved to be a valuable learning experience about engaging with conflict in multidisciplinary learning and team settings. Though I had previously been familiar with some of the models and strategies discussed in our…

January 28, 2021 Canadian universities and colleges are considered to be institutions that hold and advance knowledge within our communities. Tied to their mission, institutions of higher education are expected to develop and graduate individuals who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to succeed in their careers and contribute…

July 4, 2020 In their study “Building an Inclusive Campus”, Green et al. (2018) employed a mixed method approach to investigate the impacts of an interreligious and intercultural diversity program on participants’ self-perceived and actual intercultural competencies (ICC), defined by Hammer (2015) as “the capability to shift cultural perspective and…

September 2, 2020 In recent years, it appears there have been growing concerns regarding what can be said on Canadian post-secondary campuses. Beyond efforts of those within Canadian post-secondary education (PSE) to adopt more inclusive language regarding gender, sexuality and other individual and group identities, there have been tensions about…

Summary of a critical annotated bibliography October 8, 2019 With the massification of higher education in Canada, efforts have been made to increase the diversity of student enrollment and to facilitate the access of historically underrepresented groups, such as visible minorities, Indigenous students, and students with disabilities. Although Canada is often considered to be a welcoming…

April 17, 2020 The critical/transformative approach to research is the third major categorical type of research that we have reviewed as part of the current course in Research Methods and Designs. In contrast to quantitative (scientific realism) and qualitative (subjective/interpretism) approaches, critical/transformative research readily acknowledges that knowledge and research are…

Updated from July 2015 article, originally written for the Ryerson Student Affairs Blog Hi. My name is Dan and I’m a choirboy — or maybe “choir nerd” is more appropriate? The fun thing is I know I’m not alone. In a very literal sense, it’s pretty well near impossible to…