post-secondary education

Athabasca U's future seems brighter as Saskatchewan prof named to conduct sustainability review

djclimenhaga — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:18:16 +0000

Two things are abundantly clear after this morning's news conference in Athabasca University's Edmonton offices:

1. Alberta's NDP government is determined the perennially financially troubled distance education university will survive as a viable post-secondary institution
2. Athabasca University’s headquarters and the bulk of its operations will remain in the Town of Athabasca, about 130 kilometres north of Alberta’s capital city

Just how all this is to be done remains to be seen. Likewise, while it appears quite clear AU's mandate as a distance-education and open-learning institution will remain similar to what it is today, that too will have to wait for the outcome of the sustainability review that was the official reason for this morning's announcement.

Canadian campuses working toward reconciliation have their work cut out

Campus Notes — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:41:46 +0000

rabble.ca and the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) are teaming up to find Canada's next progressive student journalists. Generously funded by the CFS, Campus Notes will be running articles on Canada's critical post-secondary education issues. Have an idea? Pitch it here.

Canadian universities shifting to top-down, corporate governance are reading from the same playbook

Campus Notes — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:54:18 +0000

On June 28, 2013, the then-president of Brock University, Jack Lightstone, posted an open letter online and via email to the Brock community titled "The Need for a Program Review."

New sexual assault policies in Canadian universities fail to include survivors' voices

rabble staff — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:12:51 +0000

Student activists and survivors of sexual violence have led the fight for policy development on Canadian campuses for decades. They've won important victories, but the fight continues.

New campus sex assault policies show Canadian universities still aren't listening to survivors

Campus Notes — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:20:52 +0000

Post-secondary students are literally going hungry in Canada

rabble staff — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:42:00 +0000

A new report reveals that out of over 4,000 students surveyed from five universities across Canada, a surprising 39 per cent are food insecure.

Canadian post-secondary students literally going hungry for an education

Campus Notes — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:39:08 +0000

Let's make post-secondary education free for everyone

Campus Notes — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:38:45 +0000

For as long as I've been a student, I've heard experts, politicians and even some of my own classmates say that "free tuition" is a bad idea.

I've been told that free tuition is "wrong", or "self-interested." Why? Because those who get to college or university are already privileged. Why should our society subsidize them?

I've never understood this argument, but that may have something to do with my own life story. My parents were refugees from Somalia, and I am a first-generation university student in Canada.

Studying while Black still tokenizing experience for many racialized post-secondary students

Campus Notes — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:49:38 +0000

Racialized students at the University of King's College are a sparse and often isolated minority.

Students feel Canadian universities still aren't safe spaces for diverse voices

rabble staff — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:57:35 +0000

If you ask universities themselves, Canadian campuses are fertile settings for diversity and marginalized people. The problem is the students don't agree.

Despite their best protests, Canadian universities still aren't safe spaces for diverse voices

Campus Notes — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:38:20 +0000

Alberta government names five new members to Athabasca University Board of Governors

djclimenhaga — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 05:45:35 +0000

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The Alberta government has moved quietly but dramatically to begin the difficult work of fixing the serious problems at Athabasca University, appointing five new members to the financially troubled distance education institution's board of governors.

There has been no news release and no official announcement -- other than the bare-bones mention of the five appointments in the government's Orders in Council, published Wednesday.

I became a poster child for campus rape and it still didn't bring me justice

the views expressed — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:28:49 +0000

Unlike many others, I got straight As my first year at McGill, and started fucking up my grades only after. So when people tell me that grad schools don't often look at my first year, I have to wonder, will they also consider the grades that trauma, substance abuse and institutional betrayal took away from me?

Two years after being sexually assaulted, and one year after reporting it, I've had to pack up and travel across the world for a semester abroad -- with the sole purpose of keeping myself sane and staying away from McGill's toxicity.

Calling progressive student journalists: rabble.ca wants you!

Campus Notes — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:07:14 +0000

rabble.ca and the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) are teaming up to find Canada's next progressive student journalists.

We're looking for progressive stories that get to the heart of what it means to be a student in 21st-century Canada. What challenges do college and university students face? What would a truly progressive vision for post-secondary education look like? And most importantly, how do we get there?

Funded by the CFS, Canada's oldest and largest student organization representing over 650,000 students, the Campus Notes student journalism project is seeking sharp, well-written pitches for feature stories on critical student issues.

Ontario's 'benevolence with strings attached' is keeping low-income students out of university

Campus Notes — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:44:02 +0000

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I am being denied access to education.

For the past few weeks, I have been in conversation with the National Student Loan Center, Canada Student Loans Services, my local MP's office, among others to try and get answers. The resistance and lack of answers I've repeatedly encountered has convinced me Ontario's student loan system is restrictive and discriminatory.