The Council of Ontario Universities welcomed an announcement Thursday that the provincial government is extending for one year a cap of five per cent on overall tuition fee increases at its colleges and universities.
COU chair Alastair Summerlee said the move will enable universities to protect the gains that have been made through the government’s major investments in higher education.
Two reports in the last month suggested reforms to Ontario’s social assistance system: a commission created by the 2009 Poverty Reduction Act and the Drummond commission on the reform of public services.
Anti-poverty activist Marion Overholt, a staff lawyer at Legal Assistance of Windsor, will discuss how these reports fit into the reality of the shrinking middle class in Ontario, increasing rates of poverty, assumptions about people living in poverty, and our disappearing social welfare system at noon on Monday, March 12, in the law building’s room G101.
The closure of the student pub has resulted in the relocation of the Speed Dating for Charity event, Tuesday, March 13.
The event, a benefit for the Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County, will begin with registration at 7 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium. Thanks to sponsorship by the Alumni Association, the Organization of Part-time University Students, and the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance, admission is free for UWindsor students.
Too much money at the top is bad for everyone, says Linda McQuaig.
“Our society tends to regard large fortunes as evidence of great talent or accomplishment,” she says. “Yet the vast new wealth isn't due to an increase in talent or effort at the top, but rather to changing social attitudes legitimizing greed and government policy changes that favour the new elite.”
UWindsor students overwhelmingly turned down a proposed universal bus pass that would have seen them pay for Transit Windsor services through their student fees.
In balloting by University of Windsor Students Alliance members Wednesday and Thursday, “no” votes held more than a 2-1 margin.
The University of Windsor Campus Community Police are working closely with Windsor Police Services with their investigation of an altercation originating at the University Pub that resulted in the injury of three young men early Friday morning. The University Pub is now closed until further notice.
Prospective students and their families visiting campus Friday for Spring Open House are “our special guests,” says Zora Savic, events coordinator in the liaison office.
She says students, faculty and staff have been busily preparing for the event, one of the most important in the student recruitment process.
“We have learned that coming to our campus, meeting with our people and getting the UWindsor experience is one of the best ways to convince high school students to choose to come here,” she says.
Paul Godfrey, president of Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest publisher of paid English-language daily newspapers, will discuss the essentials necessary for building a winning organization as the next instalment of the Odette School of Business Breakfast with Champions speaker series, Wednesday, March 14.
Friday is the deadline to register for the new series of Weight Watchers. The campus chapter will accept registrants on March 9 from noon to 1 p.m. in room 109, Memorial Hall.
The cost is $209 for 20 weeks; learn more on the Human Resources Web site.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning invites applications for travel grants to participate in teaching and learning conferences. The centre particularly invites applications for travel to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Academy and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) annual conferences.
SoTL Academy will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 20 to 22, with the theme Collaborative Engagement. For more information, visit the conference Web site.
