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Campus reverie

For most teachers and students, school’s out for the summer. The great, yawning gap of July and August provides a respite from daily and weekly routines. Not so for me: July and August bring seven weeks of teaching and mentoring in … Continue reading

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Teaching journalism — differently

About six months after I finished my graduate journalism degree in the mid-1980s, the University of Western Ontario asked me to return as a sessional instructor. A faculty member had taken ill, and her courses in the history of Canadian … Continue reading

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