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Empathy, once widely regarded as a universal good and essential leadership strength, has increasingly become contested in politics, workplaces, and culture. This article traces the history of empathy from its aesthetic roots in the German term einfühlung to its role as a cornerstone of leadership, highlighting its benefits for innovation, collaboration, psychological safety, and human flourishing. At the same time, it examines the paradoxes and risks of empathy when practiced without ethical grounding, including compassion fatigue, manipulation, and politicization. Drawing on research and contemporary debates, the article argues that while empathy is under attack, it remains vital for rebuilding trust, bridging divides, and sustaining both leadership and community.

The manuscript is a published book review of Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better by Kim Scott, featured in The Department Chair (Spring 2025 issue). The review evaluates Scott’s framework for fostering respectful and inclusive workplace cultures and explores its relevance for academic leaders, particularly department chairs. While grounded in corporate examples, the book’s insights are shown to be highly transferable to postsecondary settings. The review highlights key concepts such as managing bias, promoting psychological safety, and leveraging emotional intelligence, offering academic readers practical tools for building healthier, more collaborative departments.

Teaching and learning can be joyful! "The Joy of Learning" resource was created by the 3M National Teaching Fellows cohort of 2024 (Canada) to foster the joy that drew us to post-secondary teaching in the first place, recognizing that we are all committed to lifelong learning. Content relevant to undergraduate university instructors is interspersed throughout: time-saving tips, reflection prompts, recommended readings, inspiring quotations and our own stories — including moments of teaching delight and lessons from teaching failures. There is space to identify teaching, personal and other goals and even a few black-and-white images that you can colour in, if you feel so inspired. Created to be interactive, easily accessible and — importantly — used by our peers, this e-resource can be downloaded and used electronically on your note-taking application or you can print all or selected pages. We invite you to incorporate "The Joy of Learning" into your teaching practice by filling these pages with your questions, discoveries, and messy, fantastic ideas. Create time and space to rediscover the joy of learning!

An overview of the WCCCE '25 conference including a message from the chair, total conference submissions, committees and those involved with them, and a list of all papers presented at the conference.

Misinformation is discussed as one of the most pressing challenges of the digital age, potentially shaping public opinion and influencing political behaviour across the globe. In this introduction to a special issue, we report on the analysis of Scopus search results documenting increasing attention to misinformation (and related topics) over the past twenty-five years and a focus on the US context. The contributions to this special issue consider the US context (Gomez & Jenkins 2025; Littrell et al. 2025), but also consider Brazil (Bastos et al. 2025), Germany (Unger et al. 2025), and several cross-national studies that include other countries in Europe, the US, and Canada (Holt & Bechmann 2025; Hoffmann & Boulianne 2025; Morosoli & Humprecht 2025). The contributions offer overlapping insights on the themes of misinformation as a socially constructed phenomenon; misinformation exposure and engagement; and the power and limitations of misinformation. We connect these new findings with recently published meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews on misinformation. We conclude with suggestions for future research that addresses contextual and cultural specificity; examines the motivations for engagement; explores new angles for the study of polarisation and partisanship; and new methodologies.

This video showcases poems and stories by immigrant seniors in Calgary and Mount Royal University students. Created through the Community Initiatives for Immigrant Seniors (CISP), it highlights diverse cultural perspectives and the experience of integrating into Canadian society.

This anthology showcases poems and stories by immigrant seniors in Calgary and Mount Royal University students, reflecting on various aspects of identity, including origin, growth and connection. Created through the Community Initiatives for Immigrant Seniors (CISP), it highlights diverse cultural perspectives and the experience of integrating into Canadian society.

This anthology showcases poems and stories by immigrant seniors in Calgary and Mount Royal University students, reflecting on love. Created through the Community Initiatives for Immigrant Seniors (CISP), it highlights diverse cultural perspectives and the experience of integrating into Canadian society.

This anthology showcases poems and stories by immigrant seniors in Calgary and Mount Royal University students, reflecting on the theme of creating community. Created through the Community Initiatives for Immigrant Seniors (CISP), it highlights diverse cultural perspectives and the experience of integrating into Canadian society.