Category: Focus Friday

Hi everyone, A huge thank you to all those who attended and participated in our first Focus Friday on September 18th. Today, we have Alan Roberts, the CEO of InSite Information Systems, a company that focuses on competency-based assessment, such as the ShiftIQ platform. In today’s webinar, we are going to talk about internationally trained professionals, credentialing, assessment of competency, and skills recognition. Along the way, we’ll be touching on the assessment of internationally trained nurses, intraprovincial barriers to credential

Hi everyone, I’m Noah Arney, and I’ll be hosting Focus Fridays this year—a biweekly HESA webinar series bringing together the Canadian higher education community for timely, open conversations about the issues shaping the sector. This Friday, September 18, I’ll be joined by Sterling Crowe, Associate Dean of Student Wellness and Equitable Learning at Humber Polytechnic and President of CACUSS, and Jennifer Browne, Director of Student Life at Memorial University of Newfoundland, for a discussion on The Student Experience This Year.

Hi all! Tiffany here. This week marks our final Focus Friday before we take a break for the summer. Rather than bringing in a guest, we’ll be hosting an end-of-year community chat. No presentations, no formal agenda, and no set topic, just an opportunity to connect with colleagues from across the postsecondary sector and talk about what’s on your mind as we head into the summer months. We’ll use the hour to reflect on the year that was, discuss the

Hi all! It’s the second last Focus Friday before a summer break. Joining me this afternoon is David Hornsby, Vice-Provost (Academic and Global Learning) at Carleton University, for a conversation on Carleton’s newly released institutional AI Framework and what it actually takes to move from “we should probably do something about AI” to a university-wide governance approach. We’ll spend some time talking about: As always, Focus Friday is meant to be highly conversational and discussion-driven, so bring your questions, experiences,

Good morning everyone, Tiffany here. Just a reminder that Focus Friday is today at 12:30-1:30pm Eastern! Joining me today is Pat Lougheed from Plaid Analytics for what I think will be a really fun conversation on data myth busting in higher education. Across the sector, we spend a lot of time talking about being “data-informed,” but there are also plenty of assumptions, half-truths, and recurring narratives that shape institutional decision-making. Today’s conversation will dig into some of the biggest myths that continue to circulate