Category: Focus Friday

Hi all, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern! In this session, we’ll be joined by colleagues from the University of Alberta to talk about how institutions are beginning to use AI across multiple parts of the university. Rather than focusing on a single initiative, the conversation will explore how AI is being integrated across teaching and learning, research, IT, the library, and graduate programming. One of the challenges many institutions are facing

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today, from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. Coming out of several recent conversations, whether on institutional recovery, sustainability, or governance, one theme keeps surfacing: institutions are being asked to make difficult academic decisions in an increasingly constrained financial environment. And yet, many of those decisions are made without a clear, shared understanding of what programs actually cost to deliver. So this week, we’re turning our attention to program-level financial viability and

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today, February 6th, from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. Over the past few Focus Friday sessions, we’ve spent a lot of time sitting with the pressures facing postsecondary institutions: financial constraint, political intervention, governance challenges, and the sense that many institutions are being asked to change faster than ever before. Today, we want to shift the lens slightly. Rather than focusing only on constraint, this session asks a different question: what

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today, January 23, from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. Coming off our last Focus Friday community chat, one theme came through loud and clear: many institutions are grappling with shifting provincial politics and what those dynamics mean for governance, funding, autonomy, and long-term planning. So, this week, we wanted to spend some time digging into that relationship more directly. To do that, I’ve invited a true expert, HESA’s President, Alex Usher,

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today (January 9th) from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. This week’s session is a little different. Rather than a guest presentation, we’re hosting a community conversation about what 2026 might hold for the higher education sector and how institutions are thinking about the year ahead. We’ll use the hour to reflect together on the big questions many of us are already grappling with: AI will almost certainly be part of that