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.
“Both parties agreed to open and transparent communication throughout the transition process,” said a representative of the UOSU in an email to the Fulcrum. “The SFUO has failed to maintain open communication with us and we have been left in the dark regarding most of their plans.”
Assuming that businesses have a responsibility to follow the political consensus, no matter how much sense that consensus makes, is dangerous.
As the ice melts and the temperature slowly rises, students are finding all kinds of ways to prepare for the summer—although most of us aren’t outfitting a pirate ship.
Jesse Cooke adapts to business in Canada’s North If you think getting to class in the winter is hard, think again—lack of transportation in the northern Yukon can make travelling near impossible in any season. However, University of Ottawa graduate Jesse Cooke’s chartered bus service, Husky Bus, has been making moving around up North a …
The Telfer School of Management recently launched the Entrepreneurship Foundry Course, which, like entrepreneurship itself, is a product of a variety of disciplines and skills.
Earlier this year, Joe’s Crab Shack, a large restaurant chain in the U.S. eliminated the practice of tipping and increased the pay of its workers. As several other American restaurants have moved towards ending tipping, the future of this long held practice is being called into question. The idea of abolishing tipping shouldn’t be completely …
Dasha Shakov, a third-year marketing student at the University of Ottawa, is taking her business education to the next level—by starting her own online gift shop, called Parcelly.
“I think I took a very different approach to academia and my education than most people do,” he said. “I didn’t go to law school to become a lawyer, and I didn’t do my MBA to go work in a consulting firm.”
“Let’s say you’re a drone designer, and you have hundreds of propellers to choose from, hundreds of thousands of motors to choose from, and you don’t know how to decide,” said Charles Blouin.
