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...
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Marketing MRU
The message is simple: personalized learning in university level courses being taught in smaller classrooms by quality teachers. That is the message Mount Royal University’s marketing department intends to utilize in hopes of drawing...
Making the switch
After a dominating showing at the Ranger Elite Cougar Classic Oct. 15-17, including a 105-26 trouncing of St. Mary’s University College, the Cougars women’s basketball team is looking to start the regular season off...
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...
‘Just live in peace’
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was in Calgary for the first time in 30 years on Sept. 30 spreading a message of compassion at the Saddledome. The appearance was part of a two-day NOW conference...
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...
Love of the game
Sneakers squeak, you hear the sound of feet pounding on plywood, deep voices shouting for the ball and then the sweet sound of a swish — the basketball falling right through the net making...
Mount Royal population booms
Despite the recession spelling downsize for many Canadian companies, such was not the case for Canadian universities and colleges, which saw substantial increases across the country in applications for the 2009/10 academic year. Mount...
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...
Cougars’ Kniel tees off on competition
Anyone who has attempted to play the game of golf has realized it can be extremely frustrating. For many, memories of tossing a driver into the trees after hitting an errant tee shot into...
