Athabasca U course trains journalists for war-zones
Twenty-one days of desert heat, three different journalistic perspectives and a one-of-a-kind course entitled Conflict Zone Journalism is now providing Athabasca University students in Calgary with a realistic take on war-zone reporting.
Evelyn Ellerman said she began this course in May 2009 hoping students would feel as strongly as she did about the positive aspects this course had to offer.
OSAP rations leave students hungry for more
Students are starving, or so says the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. This week, the student group launched a program to highlight what it says is an inadequacy of the Ontario Student Assistance Program’s allowance for food.
U of Winnipeg goes for gold with green building design
The University of Winnipeg is gunning for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certification with its new Science Complex and Richardson College for the Environment.
The lab, which is scheduled for completion in March 2011, is expected to be one of the most energy efficient lab in North America.
York University student suspended for possible hate crimes
B’nai Brith Canada, a prominent national Jewish organization, has called for hate crime charges to be filed against York University student Salman Hossain for allegedly racist comments posted on his personal website.
Hossain appeared before a disciplinary tribunal at the university March 15 to discuss his website called “Filthy Jewish Terrorists” and the potential for formal hate crime charges being laid.
Cheaters ruin schools’ rep
A recent study in Maclean’s magazine is questioning whether or not universities are losing their academic recognition and value.
Research done in 2007 indicates more than half of university students admitted to some form of cheating.
Three years later, it does not appear the situation has changed. According to a report done at the University of Guelph, 53 per cent of Canadian students have been caught cheating and rates are as high as 70 per cent in the United States.
