Tagged: post secondary institutions

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Volunteer your debt away

by Miriam Ostermann A make-or-break meeting between the Ministry of Advanced Education and the Alberta Students’ Executive Council (ASEC) resulted in a great deal of support and excitement towards a proposal that could result...

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Budget cuts mean fewer first-year classes

by Miriam Ostermann Post-secondary institutions across the province had to bite the bullet when the Alberta government, faced with a $4.7-billion deficit, announced a freeze on funding. For Mount Royal University, the freeze came...

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Rainy-day fund

by Miriam Ostermann The 2010 budget freeze was not an issue university students across the province were willing to let go easily. While still working on proposals, students from 12 post-secondary institutions across Alberta shed...

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Civic speed-date event moved

by Catherine Szabo If politics were a potential suitor, it would be a stand-up sort of fellow — the kind who lets you know that plans have changed. An on-campus mayoral candidate event, where students...

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Sixteen-month birthday party underway for MRU

by Catherine Szabo After three years of planning, Mount Royal University’s Centennial Committee has organized 16 months of events to mark 100 years of learning. “The feeling we got [from the Mount Royal community] was to...

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No fee increase planned for MRU students next fall

by Zoey Duncan While other post-secondary institutions in the province are gearing up to request tuition cap increases from the govern­ment, Mount Royal University is quietly sitting at the cap lev­el that was supposed...

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Dollars and sense

by Robert Jones Guest Columnist Feel like you’re bumping shoulders with more people in the hallways this year? Well, you are. Applications to Alberta’s post-secondary institutions have skyrocketed, and so too has demand for...

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Exchanging words with WordFest author

Jeanette Lynes is a Canadian-born author who has written five collections of poetry and, more recently, released her first novel. The book, titled The Factory Voice, is a fictional story of four women working...