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Month: March 2012

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Broadcast chief, philanthropist and music entrepreneur Gary Slaight, BA’73, will be honoured at the 2012 JUNO Awards. The president and CEO of Slaight Communications and founder of Slaight Music is the 2012 recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achieveme …

Alumna eyes Juno Award – UPDATED

Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Kerri Ough, BMus’03, and her Good Lovelies mates are up this weekend for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group category.

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

During the holiday break, a major academic press solicited my interest in writing an undergraduate textbook in one of my areas of teaching expertise. For a cash-strapped scholar at the beginning of his professorial career, the offer seemed enticing as it conferred what seemed to be an honour as well as possibly being lucrative.

Campus Digest, March 29

Campus Digest, March 29

Annual salary disclosures from Western University In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western has released its annual list of employees whose 2011 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips.  Also outlined on the list are taxable...

Universities  spared worst of budget cuts

Universities spared worst of budget cuts

The greatly anticipated, almost dreaded, provincial budget, announced Tuesday by Ontario’s finance minister Dwight Duncan, came with what he called responsible and fair cuts – most sparing post-secondary institutions.

Western lagging, but pushing for research funding

Western lagging, but pushing for research funding

With close to $220 million in total research funding this past year, there is still plenty of room for Western to improve on a number of fronts, said Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic) and acting vice-president (research).

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

It may not be the common perception of London, but according to a group of Western students, the Forest City was – and still is – the home and artistic hub for artists from around the world.

Read All Over reviews, March

Read All Over reviews, March

Zero Patience By Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. 181pp. Unhelpful attitudes of liberal tolerance towards AIDS resulted in a wide approbation of the film Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks in 1993, perhaps indexed on mollifying the public by...

Alumna eyes Juno Award – UPDATED

Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Kerri Ough, BMus’03, and her Good Lovelies mates are up this weekend for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group category.

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

During the holiday break, a major academic press solicited my interest in writing an undergraduate textbook in one of my areas of teaching expertise. For a cash-strapped scholar at the beginning of his professorial career, the offer seemed enticing as it conferred what seemed to be an honour as well as possibly being lucrative.

Campus Digest, March 29

Campus Digest, March 29

Annual salary disclosures from Western University In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western has released its annual list of employees whose 2011 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips.  Also outlined on the list are taxable...

Universities  spared worst of budget cuts

Universities spared worst of budget cuts

The greatly anticipated, almost dreaded, provincial budget, announced Tuesday by Ontario’s finance minister Dwight Duncan, came with what he called responsible and fair cuts – most sparing post-secondary institutions.

Western lagging, but pushing for research funding

Western lagging, but pushing for research funding

With close to $220 million in total research funding this past year, there is still plenty of room for Western to improve on a number of fronts, said Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic) and acting vice-president (research).

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

It may not be the common perception of London, but according to a group of Western students, the Forest City was – and still is – the home and artistic hub for artists from around the world.

Read All Over reviews, March

Read All Over reviews, March

Zero Patience By Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. 181pp. Unhelpful attitudes of liberal tolerance towards AIDS resulted in a wide approbation of the film Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks in 1993, perhaps indexed on mollifying the public by...