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
The short issue last week leads into a bigger one this week. I’m happy to start it off with the latest Minds We Meet, where we speak with an accounting student who has one of the best slogans for when you’re just getting up in the morning that I’ve ever heard. Also, did you know… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, over 20,000 students in Quebec took to the streets to protest tuition increases and changes to language laws introduced in October, with a lot of them not attending class for the week. More interesting, the University of McGill and Concordia University each filed suit against the Quebec government to argue… Read more »
Four hundred and seventy students cast their votes over the AUSU election period, and the results (pending appeals) are now in. Congratulations to the winners, with incumbent Chantel Bradely returning, and being joined by Olivia Shepherd, Faustina Arsenault, Aiza Nazarmatova, Melanie Rousseau, Annette Karien, Jan Lehmann, Diana Ramirez, Chimaraoke Akuchie, Kari Thompson, Josh Fils, and… Read more »
The polls are now open and you can make your choice among the various candidates on offer. Of course, student councils always seem a lot harder to choose your votes than normal elections because we don’t have months of coverage, events, and policy debates beforehand. But for most of us, do we really pay attention… Read more »
The responses are in! With voting opening this coming Thursday, March 14th, students need to know as much as they can about the candidates who’ve stepped forward for AUSU. Seventeen candidates are trying for the twelve available seats on Council. The thirteenth seat will be filled by a member selected by the Indigenous Circle at… Read more »
Alberta has released its budget for 2024. I think. It’s actually a little hard to tell because they don’t actually list what they’ve done as a budget, but rather as “estimates”. I’m not sure what they’re trying to accomplish by this wording, perhaps it allows them to try to deny responsibility. “Oh, we didn’t actually… Read more »
After the regular acknowledgements and house keeping items of the agenda and minutes, the first substantive action of the night was the approval of the annual report for the fiscal year 2022-2023. Approval was unanimous, and so the report should be available on the AUSU website for you to look at right now. In addition,… Read more »
In Ontario, Doug Ford’s government is rumored to be providing 1.2 billion to fund Ontario’s universities after an expert panel looking at the post-secondary system made recommendations totalling about 2.5 billion dollars to deal with a post-secondary system that is “currently at serious risk” due to a lack of funding. This risk has occurred, in… Read more »
We are now right in the middle of the nomination period for the next AUSU Council election. This is the group of students, like you, who get together to try to decide how the AUSU contribution you provide with each course registration would be best used to benefit students in general. Like many post-secondary institutions,… Read more »
