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  Sheridan College has announced that it will be an inaugural member of Canada Makes, a network of private, public, academic, and non-profit organizations that promote additive manufacturing. Canada Makes focuses on technologies including 3D printing, reverse engineering of 3D imaging, and the creation of medical implants and replacement human tissue. “Sheridan’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing ...

Langara College has released its first Academic Plan, identifying priority areas to guide Langara’s growth and development through 2019. The 5 priority areas are Learning and Teaching; Student Support; Aboriginal Initiatives; International Initiatives; and Environmental, Financial, and Social Sustainability. The Plan is based on 18 months of consultations with faculty, staff, students, and external advisors, ...

The King’s University in Edmonton has launched the Leder School of Business, thanks to $12 M in donations and commitments. The new business school is named after founding donor John Leder, President of Edmonton-based Supreme Group. The Leder School will offer programs and courses in 5 streams: Global Learning, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Accounting, and Distance Learning. ...

An article in Marketing magazine questions why Canadian marketers don’t devote more attention to international students. The article cites Canada’s ambition to double the number of international students and researchers in Canada, as well as a 94% increase in the number of international students entering Canada in the past decade. These students spent more than $8 B and helped ...

Young Canadian professionals are turning to professional degrees to give them an edge in a competitive job market, and universities are responding withinterdisciplinary graduate programs, reports Maclean’s. Many students are also looking to complement previous degrees with further education. According to Benjamin Tal, a CIBC World Markets economist, a university education is not delivering the value, ...

The Financial Post has published a report on how business schools are adjusting to meet the needs of International and Indigenous students in the face of a diversifying student body. Murali Chandrashekaran, Associate Dean of UBC’s Sauder School of Business, says that there is a broad need for a more diverse approach to business education. Diversity, he ...

The University of Calgary is among the top 10 young universities in the world, according to the latest QS rankings of world universities under 50 years old. uCalgary finished ninth overall in the rankings, up 4 spots from last year. The top-ten ranking positions uCalgary as the second highest-ranking school in North America, behind the University of ...

Ontario has invested $1.2 M to expand PSE institutions’ access to Magnet, a career-networking platform developed in partnership with Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC). Magnet is a non-profit initiative that provides students with access to labour market information and connections to approximately 60,000 Ontario businesses. 20 ON colleges ...

The University of Regina has received a donation of art valued at approximately $3 M from local resident Jacqui Shumiatcher. The donation includes 1,310 paintings and sculptures. The collection had been assembled over several decades by Shumiatcher and her husband. “The art that my husband and I collected over the years will be going to ...

The Joyce Foundation has given the University of Windsor a donation of $10 M to create the Ed Lumley Bursary, named in honour of the institution’s Chancellor. The bursary will offer up to $8,000 per year to students in financial need who would otherwise be unable to attend university. In a news release, uWindsor described ...

An immersive computer simulation technology developed by the Justice Institute of British Columbia is helping students in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine receive experiential training. The training simulation relies on JIBC’s web-based Praxis learning system. Students from various locations can gather to immerse themselves in a multimedia-rich environment, working independently or with other groups to respond ...

Cape Breton University has released its Accountability Report 2013/2014. The report emphasizes that CBU adds $87 M to the regional economy and is directly or indirectly responsible for close to 1,400 jobs at the university and in its surrounding communities. The report also outlines CBU’s plans to help the province meet its economic goals. CBU’s ...

Queen’s University Principal Daniel Woolf has announced his goals and priorities for the coming academic year. Woolf committed to increasing the number of opportunities for expanded credentials, including opportunities for experiential and entrepreneurial learning. Woolf also committed to sustaining Queen’s tri-council success rate, to supporting faculty engagement and development, and to maintaining Queen’s position among ...

The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology was officially “re-launched” yesterday as Saskatchewan Polytechnic. The announcement was made at 4 simultaneous events at the institution’s several campuses. Along with the new name comes a new visual identity, featuring a grey and purple “energy path.” SaskPolytech has also adopted the tagline “tomorrow in the making.” President ...

  Mount Royal University on Sept 19 officially opened its Centre for Community Disaster Research. The centre is reportedly among the first of its kind in Canada; professor Tim Haney, who will head the Centre, says that it will be “the only disaster centre in Canada that focuses only on people, communities, and families, and ...

Ontario has announced additional recipients of funding from the province’s Campus-Linked Accelerators (CLA) program and its On-Campus Entrepreneurship Activities (OCEA) funding. The funding includes $6.8 M in CLA funding and $800,000 in OCEA funding for institutions in the Greater Toronto Area. OCAD University received funding to support entrepreneurship engagement on campus, with a particular focus on students ...

Ontario has announced that it will spend an additional $65 M to buy out the developer of the MaRS Discovery District. This brings the total amount that the province has spent on the facility, designed to foster collaboration between scientific researchers and entrepreneurs, to nearly $309 M. Ontario Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid says that the buy-out ...

Fanshawe College is offering students a new app designed to ensure their safety. The app, called Stay Safe Fanshawe, has a wide variety of features including a real-time security feed, urgent alerts, integration with safety programs like Safe Walk, information about special programs for women, bus routes and schedules, and a function that allows students ...

An article in Maclean’s reports on the increasing tendency in Canadian PSE to integrate elements of business education into a wide range of non-business programs. The article highlights programs including the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science Technology program at York University, the Creative Industries program at Ryerson University, and the joint major in business and the environment at ...