Reading Time: 3 minutesStephanie Mercier is a U of O common law student and former athlete on the Gee-Gees women’s hockey and rugby teams.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSixteen student groups on campus signed the open letter to university president Jacques Frémont calling for change
Reading Time: 3 minutesTuition for international students at the University of Ottawa will rise by 12 per cent in the fall semester, meaning students could pay anywhere from $3,305 to $5,925 more a year
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthors point to introduction of iPhone, anti-stigma campaigns as possible explanations for rise
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity announces review of Policy 33, cultural sensitivity training for campus security, formal complaint mechanism and president’s committee for discrimination-free campus
Reading Time: 4 minutesProf. Amir Attaran and PhD student Brieanne Olibris were carded by a campus security officer in September 2017
Reading Time: 2 minutesBOG looks to approve Transformation 2030, the university’s strategic plan for the next decade
Reading Time: 2 minutesEsi Codjoe, former vice chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, will lead the investigation
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UOSU and professors are calling for policy changes after a Black U of O student was carded and handcuffed by security for over two hours last week
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Black student says he was carded and then handcuffed by campus security on a busy street for over two hours for not having identification, spurring widespread accusations of racism, racial profiling and harassment
Reading Time: 5 minutesTwo new programs are on the horizon, while the senate will discuss a student satisfaction survey
Reading Time: 3 minutesA computer science student won an Apple scholarship to attend the company’s annual keynote conference expense free (save his flights)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe agreement will now be presented to group of OLBI part-time professors for ratification
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe CFS says the province lacked the authority to implement the policy and acted with improper purpose in doing so
Reading Time: 3 minutesUniversity will run a $17.4 million deficit while tuition will jump 12 per cent for international students.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNelson Street closed between Somerset and Templeton streets, OC Transpo Route 16 on detour.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ceremony takes place at the Shaw Centre just off campus. Photo: Scott Robertson.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe meeting will be held on May 27 in Tabaret Hall’s Senate Chamber
Reading Time: 2 minutesGroup of part-time professors in the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute is asking for pay increases, job security and benefits.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the second student death to have occurred in less than a month
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStrike would impact part-time professors in the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA homecoming for Lucie Thibault, who graduated from the U of O and later taught at the university
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCannabis can only be consumed in tobacco smoking areas.
Reading Time: 11 minutesWe sat down with the U of O president to reflect on the 2019-20 academic year.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“This is why I wanted to develop software, to help people achieve something. It sounds cliché, it sounds like the Silicon Valley ‘Make the world a better place,’ but that’s true, that’s exactly what I wanted to do, which is make tools that help people live and work better.”—Jerry Fengwei Zhang, fourth-year software engineering student and Developer 30 Under 30 winner.
