The Liaison Committee for Public Education (LCME), one of two accrediting agencies for medical programs in Canada and the United States, is placing Halifax’s Dalhousie University’s undergraduate medical education program on probation pending the outcome of the school’s appeal in October. 
     

New Brunswick’s Atlantic Baptist University (ABU) is changing its name to Crandall University in hopes of attracting a more diverse pool of applicants in the coming years.

“Through the name change, the university is seeking to overcome perception issues that continuously distort people’s understanding of the university,” said ABU president Brian MacArthur.

 Beatrice Mtetwa spoke at two on-campus events at Carleton Sept. 9 ( Photo: Adam Dietrich )

New to Carleton this year is the Institute of African Studies, offering courses that bring together issues of African history, politics literatures, media, societies, and other topics. Carleton is the only Canadian university to have an Institute of African Studies offering a degree.

“[The program] is helping to mobilize the growing expertise in Africa at Carleton and the growing interest in the national culture,” said Blair Rutherford, the director of the Institute of African Studies.

This year Carleton’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development (CVSRD), which provides exchange opportunities focused on social development and civil society, will be offering student exchanges to the European Union (EU) for the first time.

Exchanges are now offered in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, in addition to those previously offered to Mexico and the United States.