Western’s Board of Governors backed the future-focused plans of both President Amit Chakma and Board Chair Chirag Shah at the Board’s regular meeting Thursday. In unanimous votes, Board members approved two separate motions, each reading: That the …
Month: April 2015
Hoffmaster: President, Board responses are not sufficient
The responses of President Amit Chakma and the Board of Governors to the incredulity that greeted the revelation of the president’s stunning salary are just more examples of what is badly wrong with the governance of our university. President Chakma conceded that not...
Ball: Alumnus questions university direction
As an alumnus, I have more than a passing interest in the affairs of my beloved alma mater. Several years ago, under the presidency of Amit Chakma, an estimated $200,000 was spent on ‘re-branding’ the institution, purportedly to give it more ‘international’ prestige...
Basu: Time to unify to confront common challenges
Now that President Amit Chakma has returned the extra stipend paid to him in 2014, let’s move on and speak out against personal vilification as a means of dealing with the very difficult funding scenario in the public university system. It is too easy to find...
Nobel laureate on ‘Costs of Constraints’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes delivered the 6th annual Western Law Business and Law Lecture, part of Western Law’s Torys LLP Corporate and Securities Law Forum, last week. Originally from Timmins, raised in Hamilton, Scholes was awarded the Nobel Prize...
Students take action on move-out day mess
Every April 30, the streets of London’s student neighbourhoods are transformed into garbage dumps. That’s because unwanted furniture, appliances, clothing and other assorted junk is left behind in front of vacated rental houses. You can practically set your clock by...
Ivey team well-suited for menswear case victory
Ideas on how to guide a legendary local menswear retailer into the future took centre stage as the Ivey Business School hosted its annual Business 1220E Case Competition. A six-member team comprised of Richard Wang, Alex Wu, Amy Xu, Eva Xu, Willie Zhou and Morgan Zhuo...
New BMOS diploma gets CPA A-OK
Western’s new Graduate Diploma in Accounting, in combination with the prerequisite accounting streams in Western’s Business Management and Organizational Studies (BMOS) undergraduate program, has received Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) accreditation. The...
New student-run journal, Liberated Arts, makes debut
A new undergraduate-led journal out of Huron University College promises to publish “radical and original student research on a variety of topics, with the aim of helping students participate in our wider academic research community.” Launched this week, Liberated...
USC Appeal Board overturns presidential election
Following a nine-day deliberation period, the University Students’ Council (USC) Appeal Board overruled the USC’s recent executive election results, disqualifying incoming presidential candidate, fourth-year Political Science student Jack Litchfield, and his team. The...
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc. moves downtown
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc., a global academic clinical research organization with offices in San Diego, Amsterdam and London, Ont., announced today a relocation to the Bell Canada Building in downtown London, effective Jan. 1, 2016. The new corporate headquarters,...
Editor reflects on ‘Life’ and everything else
Douglas Gibson was an editor at the cusp of his career when he first met Alice Munro, LLD’76, in the fall of 1974. As it turns out, Munro, who had already published three books at the time, was likewise at the cusp of hers. “I was a young editor in publishing in...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is headed for a geek-filled comic-con adventure in London’s Musical Theatre Productions (MTP) latest twist on the famed rock opera. The company is staging the hit 1970s musical, loosely based on the Gospel’s accounts of the last week of Jesus’...
Hoffmaster: President, Board responses are not sufficient
The responses of President Amit Chakma and the Board of Governors to the incredulity that greeted the revelation of the president’s stunning salary are just more examples of what is badly wrong with the governance of our university. President Chakma conceded that not...
Ball: Alumnus questions university direction
As an alumnus, I have more than a passing interest in the affairs of my beloved alma mater. Several years ago, under the presidency of Amit Chakma, an estimated $200,000 was spent on ‘re-branding’ the institution, purportedly to give it more ‘international’ prestige...
Basu: Time to unify to confront common challenges
Now that President Amit Chakma has returned the extra stipend paid to him in 2014, let’s move on and speak out against personal vilification as a means of dealing with the very difficult funding scenario in the public university system. It is too easy to find...
Nobel laureate on ‘Costs of Constraints’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes delivered the 6th annual Western Law Business and Law Lecture, part of Western Law’s Torys LLP Corporate and Securities Law Forum, last week. Originally from Timmins, raised in Hamilton, Scholes was awarded the Nobel Prize...
Students take action on move-out day mess
Every April 30, the streets of London’s student neighbourhoods are transformed into garbage dumps. That’s because unwanted furniture, appliances, clothing and other assorted junk is left behind in front of vacated rental houses. You can practically set your clock by...
Ivey team well-suited for menswear case victory
Ideas on how to guide a legendary local menswear retailer into the future took centre stage as the Ivey Business School hosted its annual Business 1220E Case Competition. A six-member team comprised of Richard Wang, Alex Wu, Amy Xu, Eva Xu, Willie Zhou and Morgan Zhuo...
New BMOS diploma gets CPA A-OK
Western’s new Graduate Diploma in Accounting, in combination with the prerequisite accounting streams in Western’s Business Management and Organizational Studies (BMOS) undergraduate program, has received Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) accreditation. The...
New student-run journal, Liberated Arts, makes debut
A new undergraduate-led journal out of Huron University College promises to publish “radical and original student research on a variety of topics, with the aim of helping students participate in our wider academic research community.” Launched this week, Liberated...
USC Appeal Board overturns presidential election
Following a nine-day deliberation period, the University Students’ Council (USC) Appeal Board overruled the USC’s recent executive election results, disqualifying incoming presidential candidate, fourth-year Political Science student Jack Litchfield, and his team. The...
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc. moves downtown
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc., a global academic clinical research organization with offices in San Diego, Amsterdam and London, Ont., announced today a relocation to the Bell Canada Building in downtown London, effective Jan. 1, 2016. The new corporate headquarters,...
Editor reflects on ‘Life’ and everything else
Douglas Gibson was an editor at the cusp of his career when he first met Alice Munro, LLD’76, in the fall of 1974. As it turns out, Munro, who had already published three books at the time, was likewise at the cusp of hers. “I was a young editor in publishing in...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is headed for a geek-filled comic-con adventure in London’s Musical Theatre Productions (MTP) latest twist on the famed rock opera. The company is staging the hit 1970s musical, loosely based on the Gospel’s accounts of the last week of Jesus’...