Western is continuing to ramp up support for graduate students hit hard by inflation and rising housing costs, offering additional needs-based funding, tripling its off-campus housing staff and adding new graduate student support services. A new Gradu …
Funding will create needs-based bursaries with input from Society of Graduate Students and the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
A university proposal to partner with private international college Navitas to provide an alternative first-year pathway for some international students garnered further discussion from university Senators at the governing body’s regular meeting Friday.
The move of some materials at The D.B. Weldon Library to a storage and retrieval facility is on hold, following concerns from faculty members, President Alan Shepard told members of the Board of Governors Thursday.
Western Libraries faced questions from Senators having difficulty with the way the university plans to turn the page on traditional ways of housing its collection in favour of a long-planned renovation to library physical space and an expanded digital collection.
Aspiring teachers in the Faculty of Education will need higher marks to progress and graduate from Western’s two-year Bachelors of Education program.
Two longstanding groups charged with overseeing Convocation – the Convocation Board and Honorary Degrees Committee – will work together to propose improvements to the process surrounding the biannual event.
Veteran Education researcher and administrator Kathy Hibbert has been named Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, for a term that runs Oct. 1-June 30, 2020, Andrew Hrymak, Provost and Vice-President (Academic) announced this week.
University Senators said their farewells to President Amit Chakma and other departing senior leaders Friday during the governing body’s final meeting until fall.
Every day, Western firewalls turn back an average of 630,000 attempted cyber-attacks on the network – ranging from phishing attempts to brute force attacks that could otherwise compromise the university’s systems and accounts.
Western is putting forward an operating budget of $792.2 million, a plan that includes drawing $14 million from reserves to help make up a forecast 2.2-per-cent drop in revenues.
Students will be allowed to self-report absences twice in a school year without getting a doctor’s note, university Senate decided Friday.
Prospective Western students will now receive crystal-clear messages of the consequences of falsifying application details or documents.
Funding will create needs-based bursaries with input from Society of Graduate Students and the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
A university proposal to partner with private international college Navitas to provide an alternative first-year pathway for some international students garnered further discussion from university Senators at the governing body’s regular meeting Friday.
The move of some materials at The D.B. Weldon Library to a storage and retrieval facility is on hold, following concerns from faculty members, President Alan Shepard told members of the Board of Governors Thursday.
Western Libraries faced questions from Senators having difficulty with the way the university plans to turn the page on traditional ways of housing its collection in favour of a long-planned renovation to library physical space and an expanded digital collection.
Aspiring teachers in the Faculty of Education will need higher marks to progress and graduate from Western’s two-year Bachelors of Education program.
Two longstanding groups charged with overseeing Convocation – the Convocation Board and Honorary Degrees Committee – will work together to propose improvements to the process surrounding the biannual event.
Veteran Education researcher and administrator Kathy Hibbert has been named Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, for a term that runs Oct. 1-June 30, 2020, Andrew Hrymak, Provost and Vice-President (Academic) announced this week.
University Senators said their farewells to President Amit Chakma and other departing senior leaders Friday during the governing body’s final meeting until fall.
Every day, Western firewalls turn back an average of 630,000 attempted cyber-attacks on the network – ranging from phishing attempts to brute force attacks that could otherwise compromise the university’s systems and accounts.
Western is putting forward an operating budget of $792.2 million, a plan that includes drawing $14 million from reserves to help make up a forecast 2.2-per-cent drop in revenues.
Students will be allowed to self-report absences twice in a school year without getting a doctor’s note, university Senate decided Friday.
Prospective Western students will now receive crystal-clear messages of the consequences of falsifying application details or documents.