The University of British Columbia Educational Studies graduate seminar EDST 513: Current Issues in Higher Education surveys key emerging issues in the field of higher education.

The current iteration of the course (running Jan-April 2024) is taught by Dr. Lisa Brunner. It is organized around the theme of “boundaries” and examines tensions around five interrelated contemporary issues:

1. Higher education as an immigration and refugee resettlement pathway: Functional boundaries
2. Differential tuition policies: Boundaries of the nation and the state
3. Adjusting to technological disruption: Boundaries of the human
4. Academic freedom and freedom of speech: Ideological boundaries
5. Complaint, disinvestment, and refusal: Boundaries of the possible

On this website, you will find examples of students’ learning artifacts as they are developed throughout the course.