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Worrying about the validity of an online degree is something Svetlana Shkolyar is familiar with. “[I] worry that PhD admissions committees will question its legitimacy,” said Shkolyar, who is doing a master’s degree in space studies at the University of North Dakota (UND) online.

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University will include condoms in Frosh Week welcome kits for the first time ever after action by the school’s student union.

Days before Frosh Week kicked off on Sept. 5, the St. Thomas University Student Union (STUSU) was still awaiting a final decision on whether president

Dennis Cochrane and the school’s advisory committee on student health would allow condoms to be included in welcome kits for the first time, student union president Ella Henry said.

The University of British Columbia’s research office is under fire from animal rights activists for using animals in university-funded research.

It all started with an article published in January 2008 in UBC’s student newspaper, the Ubyssey. The article claimed UBC’s animal care centre “annually distributes some 100,000 creatures, both large and small, to dozens of UBC affiliated research projects.”

The timing of the University of Alberta’s announcement that it is purchasing an official residence for the institution’s presidents is concerning, according to the university’s student union president.

Students at the University of Saskatchewan will no longer be able to pay their tuition fees with Visa credit cards starting this fall.