Schedule

Networking

Hybrid
Highlighted Session

Hybrid

La planification stratégique dans les universités francophones Session Chair: Ashley Byrne

Leadership, Admin, Policy, Funding, and Organizational Change

Organizational (Un)Change and Digital Transformation Session Chair: Christos Orfanidis

Leadership, Admin, Policy, Funding, and Organizational Change

Expanding the Scope in Curriculum, Course Design, and Pedagogy Session Chair: Joshuha Connauton

Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning

Making Policy Make Sense - Sensemaking and Policy Implementation

Leadership, Admin, Policy, Funding, and Organizational Change

Student Affairs and Services
Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
Academic Access, Pathways, and Transitions
Open Track

Government Postsecondary Funding Policy in Ontario: Trends, Challenges and Implications for Organizational and System Change Panel Chair: Theresa Shanahan

Leadership, Admin, Policy, Funding, and Organizational Change

Reimagining Collaboration in Canadian Higher Education Session Chair: Vince Anderson

Reframing Togetherness in Higher Education
Foundations, Histories, and Sociology

Internationalization of Higher Education Session Chair: Qiang Zha

International and Comparative Higher Education

Feeling the Pressure: Exploring Faculty and Student Experiences in Uncertain Times Session Chair: Aliya Kuzhabekova

Open Track

You and Your Research: Increasing Reflexivity in Making Positionality Statements

Methods, Theories, and Technologies
Hybrid

At present, most Canadian institutions connected with higher education have published highly visible statements on their commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization (EDID). Notwithstanding, Dr. Carl James, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University and ACDE’s 2021 Sherman Lecturer, posits that “…changes will not come about simply through verbal rhetoric, targeted hiring, or training sessions where individuals engage in self-reflection on their attitudes, values, and behaviours, but through critical examination of institutional policies, programs, and practices that result in the removal of systemic barriers which have operated over the years to maintain the inequitable situation being addressed.” (James, 2021). This moderated panel session sponsored by the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) asks individuals and, by extension, the institutions within their spheres of influence, to grapple with the actions and accountability stemming from institutional EDID policies by examining how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

Open Programming
Highlighted Session

Off-balance? Recent Studies on the Impact of Research Ethics Review on Research and Teaching Missions of Canadian Postsecondary Institutions Panel Chair: Michelle McGinn

Leadership, Admin, Policy, Funding, and Organizational Change

Academic Freedom in International Higher Education Session Chair: Sayeed N Orfan

International and Comparative Higher Education

Addressing Clarity and Needs in Meaningful Student Supports Session Chair: Ann Gagne

Reframing Togetherness in Higher Education

It’s hard to edit your own writing, especially when your deadline is looming. This session introduces a step-by-step approach that will enable you to see your own words through a series of lenses that bring a fresh perspective to your writing. You'll learn to use x-ray vision—that is, a way to look through the content of your own text, to see through to its structure. By editing at a structural level, you'll be able to see what you've actually written—not what you think is on the page—and make strategic choices about the 'rules' you want to follow and the ones you want to break. Participants will leave this session with a set of concrete actions that they can take to effectively edit their own work and make it tighter, more efficient, and more readable.

Networking

Academic Feminist Mentorship in Action

Reframing Togetherness in Higher Education

Congress 2025’s theme Reframing Togetherness, offers an opportunity to model meaningful togetherness while critically examining colonial hierarchies that have excluded Indigenous peoples from their lands, languages and cultures and reinforcing historically rooted injustices. As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, this moment calls for deep reflection and critical engagement with the ongoing impacts of colonialism in education and beyond. This session challenges institutions to rethink their commitments to justice and reconciliation and offers practical guidance for scholars, educators, and graduate students, equipping us with the knowledge needed to move toward more equitable and meaningful reconciliation within the Canadian reality.

Reframing Togetherness in Higher Education
Open Programming
Highlighted Session

Join us in-person at the CSSHE reception! We hope that this will be a great opportunity to network with other scholars, practitioners, and graduate students in the field of higher education. We will have food, refreshments and some fun activities!

Networking