Babacar Faye will be the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s first president, according to the results of the union’s general elections released on Friday night. Eight students were also elected to the union’s Board of Directors, and the referendum to increase funding for the Office of the Ombudsperson failed to pass.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down all but six buildings on University of Ottawa campuses. The University Centre, Colonel By Hall, 100 Marie-Curie, SITE, the STEM Complex, and Roger Guindon Hall remain open as of Thursday.
Following similar measures from the U of O’s faculties of engineering, social sciences, and arts, the Telfer School of Management will allow both undergraduate and graduate students to choose between a satisfactory/not satisfactory mark or a typical alphanumeric grade for winter semester courses.
After the faculties of social sciences and engineering at the University of Ottawa both implemented similar measures, the faculty of arts will give undergraduate students the choice, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade.
The faculty of engineering at the University of Ottawa will give students the choice, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade, the vice-dean (governance) announced in an email to students on Monday afternoon.
The University of Ottawa faculty of social sciences will give undergraduate students the choice, after receiving their final mark for a course, of opting for a ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ final grade rather than a typical alphanumeric grade, the dean announced in an email to students on Monday morning.
U of O alumnus Eric Dicaire, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in February 2016, writes of the lessons he learned on social distancing from his experience with cancer.
A candidate looking to become the University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s next advocacy commissioner and the sole student life commissioner candidate have both been disqualified from the general elections. Both candidates deny the allegations in the CEO’s ruling and are appealing the decision.
As concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic continue to grow and final exams approach, the University of Ottawa has launched a self-declaration form for students to request academic accommodations.
The executive committee of the University of Ottawa’s faculty of engineering is recommending students be given the option, after receiving their final course mark, of having ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ appear on their transcript rather than an alphanumeric grade, pending approval from the faculty council.