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Remembering the Flight 752 victims, five years after the plane was shot down in Iran
Wednesday marked the five-year anniversary of the Flight 752 crash that killed all 176 people on board, including two University of Waterloo students, two University of Guelph students, a Guelph woman and her nine-year-old daughter.
Global News
University of Alberta rebrands DEI policy to ACB: ‘Time for a refresh’
The president of the University of Alberta says the decision to rebrand its diversity, equity and inclusion policy was not influenced by critics of the initiative in North America.
Edmonton Journal
Opinion: U of A’s ‘community of belonging’ must include teaching staff
On behalf of the 4,000-plus members of the Association of Academic Staff (AASUA) at the University of Alberta (U of A), I would like to respond to President Bill Flanagan’s recent op-ed in the Edmonton Journal in which he announced plans for the U of A to shift away from the framework and language associated with “equity, diversity and inclusion” to a new framework and language centred around “access, community, and belonging.
Times Higher Education
On climate change, are universities part of the problem or part of the solution?
As the effects of climate change become increasingly more extreme, fossil fuel interests are preventing transformative change. Where do universities stand?
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