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SFYou: Miranda Meents
March 4, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Professor Miranda Meents may have gotten her PhD in the field of Botany from the University of British Columbia, but her career has led her into studying and implementing evidence-based teaching strategies at SFU. A biological sciences professor, Meents not only employs well-studied teaching strategies, but has also taken a decolonial approach to her plant biology class. We spoke with Meents to learn more about her approach in helping students form a personal connection and appreciation to the plant life around them. Meents approaches her teaching style by thinking of it as an adaptive, constantly…
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Re: Are they incomplete assignments or just boundaries?
June 3, 2022By: Maya Beninteso, Peak Associate Dearest Professor, Thank you for your email. While your message says I haven’t completed the assignment, I counter that I’m merely asserting an emotional boundary. I don’t claim the assignment’s due date. I didn’t consent to…
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“I understand these are trying times,” says the professor making the times trying
November 9, 2020By: Kyla Dowling, Peak Associate Subject Line: Paper now due Tuesday From: [email protected] To: AHH 101 (All Sections) Date: November 5, 3:33 a.m. Students, Many of you have asked for an extension on the 14-page organometallic chemistry paper due on…
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A fevered conversation between a student and professor at 2:37 a.m.
October 12, 2020By: Paige Riding, Humour Editor 11:42 p.m. hi Dr Gawner, my name is Lindsay Haugh. i am in your psyc 388 class. I will be honest, I started the paper due tonight a few hours ago and i do not…
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Meet the student complaining on Rate My Professors following a self-induced bad semester
October 5, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer Some students choose to send their professor an email once in a while, or perhaps they may even pop into office hours at some point during the semester when they feel lost. But not me.…
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SFU economics professor found dead in Colombia
January 4, 2019By: Michelle Gomez, News Team Member Three weeks after going missing in Colombia, SFU economics professor Ramazan “Ramo” Gencay was found dead. Gencay travelled to Colombia to attend seminars at the EAFIT university (universidad escuela de administración y…
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The secret life of a sessional instructor
November 21, 2016Sessional instructors, also known as adjunct faculty, are every university’s secret. We know they exist, but we don’t know too much about them, what they do, or why job security in academia is such a large issue. Don’t be surprised…
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Classroom cussing reflects reality, plain and simple
January 18, 2016[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hould professors be allowed to drop F-bombs in lecture? For years, Dr. Michael Persinger’s first-year psychology course at Laurentian University has included a disclaimer form on the first day of class that warns students of the use of foul language.…
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Transgender professor named women’s literary organization’s Critic-in-Residence
January 12, 2015SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) professor Lucas Crawford has just been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ Critic-in-Residence for 2015. The honour of being selected as the Critic-in-Residence has been awarded to one researcher each year…
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Ask Professor Peak Week 2
January 12, 2015Help! If I drop out of university, I’ll be shaming my parents! DEAR PROFESSOR PEAK: I feel like I’m in university to please my parents. Being an only child from a wealthy family of university graduates, my parents expect me…
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