Where’s the money for your next AU course coming from? If you answered “I don’t know,” perhaps you need to explore AU’s scholarship opportunities. There are eight scholarships or bursaries with application deadlines of February 15. There is still have time to examine these opportunities and submit your application. AU’s awards application process is now… Read more »
Recently, The Voice Magazine was invited to discuss education issues with Alberta’s Advanced Education Minster, the Honorable Marlin Schmidt. We wanted to get a picture of the current issues facing Alberta education and politics; issues that apply not only to Athabasca University but also the overall climate of post-secondary education across Canada. Alberta’s NDP government… Read more »
James Greenwood-Lee is an Assistant Professor in Applied Math with the Faculty of Science and Technology at Athabasca University. Some of his scientific contributions include work on complex intervention modelling capturing the dynamics of adaptation. It was research on health looking at complex systems, health interventions, and the ways in which intelligent agents change behaviour… Read more »
Sinead Hickman is originally from Whitehorse, Yukon, but moved to Alberta as a teenager. She currently resides in Red Deer with her two young children and her husband whom she credits for allowing her to achieve her educational goals. She has been an AU student off and on for the past decade and is in… Read more »
Dr. Hugh Notman is Associate Dean of Learning Technologies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology. How did you find AU? Why did you choose it? AU found me if I am honest. It was eleven years ago. I was looking for a faculty position. I had just… Read more »
In her January executive blog, AUSU president Shawna Wasylyshyn asks, “who are the students of AU?” In her capacity as student union council president, Wasylyshyn interacts with countless people in the post-secondary education community. Some, she feels, view AU students as “disadvantaged”, “marginalized”, or people with “no other choice” but to attend AU. Like Wasylyshyn,… Read more »
Robin Bleich has been with AU since 2009. She is a mother of a six-year-old, Eily, and is from the Niagara Region, Ontario. Her education here is a continuation of her time at Niagara College, Ontario. In 2009, she transferred the diploma to AU to join our BPA-Criminal Justice Program. She finds that AU works… Read more »
I was asked to describe what it’s like to go to AU. Like many students, I benefit from the uniqueness of AU and I was happy to share my passion for the AU experience. If I could sum up AU in two words, those words would be “removes barriers”. The absence of barriers is the… Read more »
December brings a particular kind of panic to many people. Yes, there are the major holidays, which are meant to be a time of happiness and joy, but all too often those feelings are overshadowed by the menu planning, the juggling of schedules around school concerts and other events, and the hard decisions about who… Read more »
University students, why are you pursuing a higher education? For most of us, the answer is simple: we want to gain the skills required to get good jobs in our chosen fields of expertise. We go to school so we can reach our full potential and achieve our goals. Since we’ve been sentient, we’ve been… Read more »