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Article content A week-long symposium beginning March 15 will celebrate connections at a time when isolation and loneliness have become significant issues. The third annual Asset-Based Community Development Symposium is timed to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the provincial lockdown, or “the week our lives stood still,” said Rishia Burke, director of community development and services at Community Living Brant. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Symposium celebrates community building and connections Back to video “Through topics ran...

Date Time Seeing university “ghost” students A quarter of university fail grades represent ‘ghost students’, who remain enrolled in undergraduate units but show no evidence of participation, new research has shown. The study, led by Dr Bret Stephenson from La Trobe University and funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE)*, found improved identification and support is required for ‘ghost students’, particularly Indigenous students who are at a high risk of ghosting behaviours. “This form of student disengagement and unit failure frequently goes...

When Lamar Richards arrived at Carolina in 2019, he knew the history of the University. He knew that he was at an institution that, at one point in time, wouldn’t have allowed him in the classrooms simply because he is Black. Richards knew the history of the University’s struggle over integration decades before he was born and the role students played in opening campus up to all. “Students have been behind every sustainable and large change that’s happened at this University for its existence,” he said. “That’s just reality.” Richards wanted to be part of  that history and b...

Richards received 59.7 percent of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, defeating his opponent, junior Keshav Javvadi, by 851 votes, according to the results from the Board of Elections. 

A senior USC academic who is focused on increasing higher education participation among Indigenous students has been appointed to a national centre...