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Willow Austin Minors available to Engineers in Fall 2017
The University of Alberta will now be “one of very few” engineering schools in Canada that allow students to minor…
Read More » - Yasmine Razek
Meal plans for Lister, Peter Lougheed Hall approved
Approved at the March 17 the Board of Governors meeting, the rate structures for meal plans in the PLH and…
Read More » - Alex Patterson
Confessions of a Contract Instructor: Peripheral Profs from the Precariat 4
This series is written anonymously by contract instructors at the University of Alberta. Unlike fully-tenured professors who have higher salaries…
Read More » - Christina Varvis
Budget 2017: Extended Coverage
According to Finance Minister Joe Ceci, the NDP’s third provincial budget was meant to be without surprises. The Advanced Education…
Read More » - Ab Sch
Board of Governors welcomes six new members
Diversity has “mostly likely been” a leading factor in the selection of the University of Alberta’s six new Board of…
Read More » - Christina Varvis
University anticipating funding cuts, job cuts
The University of Alberta is planning for a budget cut that will cut jobs equal to 200 faculty. The arithmetic,…
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Devonian Botanic Garden expecting new pavilion
Currently, patrons of the University of Alberta’s Devonian Botanic Garden have to stay home on rainy days. The 58-year-old venue…
Read More » - Willow Austin
U of A avoids cutting journal subscriptions despite rising costs
While University of Alberta students may be able to download scholarly articles seemingly for free, the costs of providing these…
Read More » - Danika Kunimoto
U of A weighs pros and cons of teaching tenure
Future students at the University of Alberta may be sitting in classrooms of professors hired to focus on teaching. The…
Read More » - Christina Varvis
Letter to the Editor: CAUS response to editorial (“Take a deeper look before vilifying tuition increases”)
The following is in response to an editorial by Mitch Sorensen, as published in the January 2017 issue of The…
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