Your Paper Sucked but it will Change the University
Your Paper Sucked but it will Change the University
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Returning to university for grad school is so intimidating, especially after you’ve been out of school for several years. The worst part? That first essay. In this podcast, university and college administrators discuss what they learned when they wrote their first term paper in the Master’s of higher education program at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
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The podcast explores themes of higher education, student success, diversity in classrooms, and the impact of the pandemic on international students, with episodes covering topics such as decision-making in choosing post-secondary institutions and the significance of university rankings.

Returning to university for grad school is so intimidating, especially after you’ve been out of school for several years. The worst part? That first essay. In this podcast, university and college administrators discuss what they learned when they wrote their first term paper in the Master’s of higher education program at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
In this episode, we are joined by Kamadchi Karunanandan – Supervisor of Residence Community Development at University of Toronto’s beautiful Mississauga campus. She introduces us to the challenges that face first-generation students – a term we use to refer to those who are the first in their family to access post-secondary education – and considers how this research can help us actually made a different for these students at Canadian universities.

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