Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
A couple of nights ago, the province passed the Alberta Sovereignty Act (Within a United Canada), with various amendments designed to address the primary criticisms people had been bringing forward. And, surprisingly to me, they seem to have done exactly that. No longer does the act allow the Lt. Governor to modify a current law… Read more »
The Alberta Sovereignty Act, sorry, The Alberta Sovereignty Act Within a United Canada has been been put forward. Because a title change means so much. It’s both better and worse than expected. Better because it does not actually say that federal laws or court decisions at any level can be ignored, rather that the government… Read more »
Advanced Education Minister Demetrious Nicolaides has put forward the latest Investment Management Agreement for Athabasca University. This is the document that tells AU how much funding is going to get, and what conditions the provincial government is putting on that. In it, instead of requiring a completely unrealistic 50% of AU’s staff be made to… Read more »
AUSU is in the last week of its annual student survey. They do this every year to see what services students like and don’t like, and try to get a better idea of what common priorities are held by as many AU students as possible. If you haven’t filled it out and you are a… Read more »
Last week I heard an interesting opinion as I was wandering around online, one by comedian and talk show host Bill Maher. A political comic, my feelings toward his opinions tend to vary, depending on the topic he’s on. Sometimes he seems bang on, other times he seems just clueless, at least to me. No… Read more »
Your tuition is going to go up. Again. Everybody’s concerned about inflation, but few people realize how much tuition rates have inflated over the years. Honestly, most people have a good distance to go before they catch up with what students have been seeing for years. It’s gotten to the point now where some schools,… Read more »
I was hoping for a more Halloween themed issue this year, but it seems the spooks and monsters of the other side aren’t on most writer’s minds at the moment. I suppose you can’t really blame them, though. It’s not like we don’t already have a whole range of reasons to be terrified, from the… Read more »
“Musical Chairs in Reverse” is what I called my last editorial. Turns out, I wrote too soon. Today, newly non-publicly-elected premiere Danielle Smith made her selection of Alberta’s new cabinet. The party that tends to argue for small government now has the largest cabinet and most provincial ministers that Alberta has ever seen. With a… Read more »
In case you missed it, and since it’s been buried under the news of Danielle Smith’s election you probably have, there will be seven new members sitting on the AU board of governors, including two new positions bringing the board total up to 19, and further reducing the power of students, staff, and faculty to… Read more »
Welcome back! I hope you were able to find some interesting things to do while we were gone for a week, maybe you got just that little bit of extra course work done, or you realized how much of a routine you’ve fallen into and vowed to stretch out of it. Either way, we’re back… Read more »