The bottom line
Over 400 MRU employees attended the budget town hall meeting at the Ross Glen Hall on Oct. 27 but the expected controversy over potential cutbacks did not materialize. Budget numbers were presented by university...
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Marketing MRU
The message is simple: personalized learning in university level courses being taught in smaller classrooms by quality teachers. That is the message Mount Royal University’s marketing department intends to utilize in hopes of drawing...
Beating Boredom: Sing away those boredom blues
I must apologize for my delay in posting my newest activity suggestion but I was away at a journalism conference with the rest of The Reflector gang. Last week we perused the streets of...
Beating Boredom: A unique Halloween treat
Halloween is nearly upon us and although I’ll be out of the country for my favourite holiday, there might be a few of you out there who still haven’t finalized your party plans. While...
Vaccinating Mount Royal
By Robert Strachan & Julie C. Vincent The EnCana Wellness Centre made 1,200 seasonal flu vaccinations available on Mount Royal University’s campus over the week of Oct. 19 to 23, but they will not...
Filling Klein’s chair
On Oct. 19, it was formally announced that Gilbert VanBuren Wilkes will be the new occupant of the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies for Mount Royal University’s faculty of communication studies. Former premier...
Under construction
1. Centre for Continuous Learning expansion The Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning, originally built in April 2006, is being expanded with an additional three-story building of approximately 6,000 square meters. The original building...
‘Just live in peace’
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was in Calgary for the first time in 30 years on Sept. 30 spreading a message of compassion at the Saddledome. The appearance was part of a two-day NOW conference...
All the president’s cash
Alberta’s auditor general, Fred Dunn’s, office is taking a closer look at how universities and colleges report salaries and bonuses paid to their executives in light of the $4.5 million leaving University of Calgary...
“Healin’ is a journey”
By Kim Suvan The Reflector On Oct. 15 author Robert Arthur Alexie, former chief of one of the most northernly aboriginal peoples living on the North American continent, will be bringing his tale of...
