Reading Time: 3 minutes“In seventeen years of teaching at the University of Ottawa, I have found that a majority of students are optimistic … This year, students were unanimous in their despair. Climate inaction was on their mind … Students could not come up with any solution that they believed would get us off our disastrous track,” writes professor Thomas Boogaart of the University of Ottawa’s department of history.
Reading Time: 7 minutesBack in 2012, it seemed like e-learning was going to set the world of academia on fire. That never happend, so what does web based learning look like today.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoard wants improvement in French course offering, sets date for divestment talk The University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors (BOG) convened for their first meeting of the year on Monday, Jan. 25. On the agenda was the university’s overall performance, as well as updates on fossil fuel divestment, bilingualism, and the ombudsperson’s report. Fossil fuel …
Reading Time: 3 minutesA member of the Board of Governors (BOG) says the University of Ottawa will have to boost its doctoral graduation rate if the university wants to achieve one of its top strategic goals by 2020.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa will offer a master’s in bilingualism studies program beginning in September 2014, in an effort to promote the bilingual and Francophone presence on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa is looking to increase its number of online and hybrid courses to better compete with national levels.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students honoured for their achievements Daniel LeRoy | Fulcrum Staff UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA students Leah Stuart-Sheppard and Julia Koulik have received recognition in past months for their efforts and excellence in research. As per Allan Rock’s Vision 2020, his strategic plan for the university to be achieved by the year 2020, the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesVision 2020 goals expected to be met HALEIGH PREVOST ACCEPTED her offer to the University of Ottawa’s criminology program last week, getting in to her dream program. Prevost is one of the new students who will be attending the U of O this September, and one of 22,500 who applied. “Criminology was probably the perfect …
Reading Time: 2 minutesNext Stop A UNIVERSITY IS a business. True, it’s an important institution of higher learning, but like any other enterprise it has to earn some dough. It’s time to face it, folks: Our tuition is not going down. One reason is our fragile and unstable economy. With stock markets crashing all over the world, it’s …
Reading Time: 3 minutesU of O launches strategic plan ON OCT. 21, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock launched Vision 2020, a set of goals the U of O hopes to achieve within the next nine years. The four main areas of focus in the document are student experience, research, internationalization, and bilingualism. At the top of the …
