Don’t you hate when you get the urge to have a scholarly debate but your friends just want to talk about the series finale of Breaking Bad – again? We know we’re not the only ones. That’s why we’re always looking for new ways to connect to the scholarly community. Some of these you’ll find as links in our BlogRoll, such as ProfHacker and InsiderHigherEd. Others we’ve introduced in weekly posts.

With that in mind, we now introduce UDaimonia Online. A website for students by students, UDaimonia provides a venue for students of all levels and disciplines to share their thoughts on the state of higher education. In the words of the editorial team:

 UDaimonia Online provides readers with a Canadian student perspective on major debates and discussions in higher education. We believe that students play a key role in the rapid evolution of Canadian higher education, and we hope that this serves as a platform for sharing valuable perspectives from across the country. We want you to emerge from your UDaimonia Online experience with new ideas that leave you thinking as you crawl into bed and drift off to sleep.

So why does it appeal to us? For starters, it’s nice to see a student-run initiative that acknowledges students as scholars capable of offering important insight on the current state of the education system. You’ll notice, also, that the editors have maintained an open call for submissions encouraging readers to contribute (for those of you who read our post last week on thinking about publishing your work).

Moreover, it’s nice to see a scholarly website that brands itself as the Canadian student perspective, and for the most part the shoe fits. We’re all for international discourse, and not every article on UDaimonia is overtly Canadian, but anything that attempts to bring focus to the Canadian student experience is okay in our books.

By the way, did you hear about the Canadian version of Breaking Bad?