Marshall resigns as president
By Kelsey Hipkin Education is in Dave Marshall’s blood. He’s been a dean of education, a professor of education, a director of the Government, a high school teacher, an educational consultant and, for the...
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The bottom line
Over 400 MRU employees attended the budget town hall meeting at the Ross Glen Hall on Oct. 27 but the expected controversy over potential cutbacks did not materialize. Budget numbers were presented by university...
Filling Klein’s chair
On Oct. 19, it was formally announced that Gilbert VanBuren Wilkes will be the new occupant of the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies for Mount Royal University’s faculty of communication studies. Former premier...
All the president’s cash
Alberta’s auditor general, Fred Dunn’s, office is taking a closer look at how universities and colleges report salaries and bonuses paid to their executives in light of the $4.5 million leaving University of Calgary...
Prerequisite Puzzler
MRU students registered in courses for which they did not have the necessary prerequisites did not learn that they had been deregistered from them until the first day of classes, an issue that the...
Mount Royal to open doors as university
Just one week before fall semester classes begin, it was announced in an emotional ceremony Thursday that Mount Royal College is now Mount Royal University. The much anticipated “historic milestone” was finally revealed to...
Governments grant $40M to build MRC Conservatory
The Alberta government has pledged $20 million towards the construction of the $60 million “state-of-the-art” Mount Royal Conservatory of Music and the federal government is willing to kick in the same amount if the...
Pearls of Wisdom gala a sea-soned affair
Clint Lovell Staff Writer A night out at the Blue Pearl for the Pearls of Wisdom gala dinner has become a mainstay in the Mount Royal College calendar. The atmosphere was light and...
Grads mark new era for Mount Royal
A sea of blue packed into Kenyon Court as Mount Royal reached an important milestone on the road towards becoming a full university. Twenty-nine students, in the criminal justice, communications, arts, and business administration...
