If having a computer know you and your ways, really know you, like in a romantic comedy or at least a favourite professor kind of way, is high on your agenda of sidebar learning outcomes then this is the posting for you. One line in this research assistant posting summarizes, perhaps, whether a would-be applicant… Read more »
Facebook: Register for a course when the prerequisite is incomplete. A student wants to register for a January course but hasn’t finished the prerequisite. Another student suggests contacting the course coordinator and committing to completing the prerequisite to get approval. A link to contact the coordinators is provided.: https://www.athabascau.ca/contact/coordinators.html. Reddit: Torn between career paths? Combine them! A student… Read more »
What’s in behind any belief is what matters most; without addressing origins, any idea falls flat on its keister, philosophically speaking. Jacques Derrida, in a university lecture during the 1970’s (he’d have been epic in the TED talks era for challenging our preconceptions) succinctly addressed the slippery matter of how to truthfully talk about natural… Read more »
From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge. Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »
Here in Calgary, the weather makes it hard to remember that we’re already in December. We’ve had weather far more typical for September or October lately. As averages tend to even out, this likely means that January will be brutal, but we’ll leave that for another time. What December means for The Voice Magazine is… Read more »
In dealing with organized crime in British Columbia, two of the most important recent events were the releasing of the German Report and the completion of the Cullen Commission. If there was one thing to remember from the German Report, it is that retired RCMP commissioner turned academic, Dr. Peter German, stated that the silence… Read more »
Policy pronouncements are just words until the rubber hits the road with actual action. Be it our ceasing to procrastinate in our studies that we may engage in some real research, or governments enacting assorted legislation purportedly to ameliorate climate change, the proof really is in the pudding. To that end, this research assistant posting… Read more »
At AU, the whole world becomes our classroom, in that our lived experiences become fodder to illustrate our essay and exam answers. Our natural proclivity toward curiosity finds expression in a different way than at a brick-and-mortar university; what once seemed a natural learning environment can even feel a bit foreign when, for whatever reason…. Read more »
After viewing a random number of university school newspapers, I noticed that the student newspapers seem to be primarily pro-Palestine. Despite this, one student newspaper story said that the Palestinian perspective was being silenced in the media. But all I see in my LinkedIn are the atrocities from the Palestinian perspective and nothing from the… Read more »
