The Insiders
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Apr
24
Campus 2020
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 24, 2007 | 4 Comments
The Campus 2020 report was released today. Click here to see the site. Warning – it’s 114 pages long. You’ll recall this is the province’s exercise in “re-thinking” the post-secondary education system and providing a vision for the future. It’s long. I’d read it but it’s hockey night and I’m packing up and leaving my […]
Apr
5
AMS meeting skinny
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 5, 2007 | 4 Comments
disclaimer: No, AMS is not the earth and sky. I’m just writing about it this week because I have stuff to write about. More general-interest stories to come. For those of you that wonder what-all goes on during AMS meetings, but have never bothered to show up and eat the free food every other Wednesday […]
Apr
5
AMS committee appointment results (the interesting ones)
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 5, 2007 | 34 Comments
Well, I’m back from the 6-hour 9-minute AMS meeting of tonight*. In this post I’ll just list some of the more interesting committee appointment results and relevant comments. A more complete summary of the meeting, and further ruminations about AMS meetings generally will follow in a few hours once I’m fully conscious. Member-at-large committee seats […]
Apr
1
An Ideological Crusade (or, a gross waste of my tax dollars)
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 1, 2007 | 7 Comments
So, the Provincial Government is planning to implement a tobacco free campus initiative, and certain members of campus are just too overjoyed at this. I currently sit on the committee which looks at Policy 15, which will be drastically revised to ban all sales of tobacco and tobacco related products from campus grounds. (Do I […]
Mar
19
Budget Highlights
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 19, 2007 | 3 Comments
Where I read it. So you don’t have to! The first thing to note is that post-secondary education (PSE) isn’t the showpiece of the budget. But there are a few tweaks and spending increases that will be of interest. It’s also important to note the possible implications of the equalization formula calculations – a province’s […]
