“In late April, the administration at Wilfrid Laurier University announced it will provide additional support for international students from war-torn countries to come study at the university. The news is a big win for the leadership of International Students Overcoming War (ISOW), a student-led group at Laurier which provides full scholarships to international students whose lives have been disrupted by violence in their homeland. ISOW has been advocating for more money since January, when the uncertain political situation in the U.S. made Canada the preferred choice for many international students fleeing war.”
This is the theme of the University Affairs post that I co-wrote with my friend and colleague Grace Karram, and which you can continue to read here.
Grace is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT), under the supervision of Dean Glen Jones. Her varied interests and mine intersect at overarching philosophical questions about the purpose of the university.
