Introducing Issue 56:1

As the calendar turns to spring here in Canada, it is time for another issue of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education/La Revue canadienne d'enseignement suprieur.This issue includes 10 articles and two book reviews tackling a range of topics and themes shaping higher education in Canada.The issue opens with two articles documenting institutional approaches to enhance impact in higher education.The first article focuses on impact through community-engaged learning, where students learn as they participate in community service.Sandra Smeltzer, Amala Poli, Darryl Pieber, Hailey Rockandel, Giada Ferrucci, and Mackenna Spraggon provide an in-depth mapping of the approaches and commitments to community-engaged learning evident at 80 publicly funded universities across the country.Next up, Stephen MacGregor, Aloysius Maduforo, Emily Coombs, and Kristi-Mari Fedorko-Bartos examine strategic planning resources for research knowledge mobilization.Their analysis targets four Research Impact Canada member institutions.Each of the articles provides useful resources and promotes the value of (inter)national networks to support impact efforts.The next two articles raise questions about the data and the assumptions associated with two different assessment purposes.J. Paul Grayson and Kyle Grayson turn attention to institutional rankings.They challenge the validity of national and international assessments that treat research grants and student awards as measures of institutional quality, arguing that these measures have little bearing on more important considerations about value-added learning, that is, the new knowledge that students acquire from their studies.Stephane Moulin, Marie Blain, and Flora Sol (writing in French) identify inequities inherent in the col-