Reporter moves on campusThe education reporter for the Saskatoon daily newspaper, StarPhoenix, is back at school. Kathryn Warden has taken an office at the University of Saskatchewan, where she works three days a week. In her first week on campus, she received half a dozen visits and more than 20 phone messages from faculty, staff and students offering ideas for stories. She notes that a story she wrote about a small grant to the engineering faculty would have ³fallen through the cracks² if she hadn't been there. A former medical reporter, Warden plans to cover university research, especially medical research, write profiles and keep her eye on political issues among faculty. The arrangement will be reviewed by the paper and the university after one year.University Affairs, February 1996
Turn off those lights and save jobsQueen's University director of physical plant services, George Hutson, is appealing to the university community to help deal with provincial cut backs and save jobs. Electrical costs at the Kingston, Ontario campus are skyrocketing and, says Hutson, at the current rate of consumption, the university will be $80,000 over budget by the end of fiscal 1995-96. His solution? A ³cultural rethinking of how we use electricity.² More specifically, he says turning off lights when you leave a room, reducing use of personal heaters and using natural light on sunny days are easy ways to cut electrical costs. Hutson's goal is to cut energy costs by 10 per cent next year, which would mean a savings of about $344,000 to the universityroughly equivalent to five faculty or 11 staff positions, or three-quarters of Queen's annual funding for student entrance scholarships.Queen's Gazette, Jan. 29, 1996
Carleton shuts down development corporationThe Carleton University Board of Governors has voted to close the Carleton University Development Corporation (CUDC) after five years of operation. The decision was made following a review of the operation which concluded that it had not met its primary goal of generating financial profit in support of the university's academic function and would not likely do so in the future.
CUDC was established in 1991 to provide additional revenues for the university's academic and research programs through commercial endeavours. The corporation's principal activities are technology transfer, training and professional development and the development of university-owned lands. The report recommended that the university take over responsibility for CUDC's current program commitments and contracts.This Week at Carleton, Jan. 25, 1996
From cadavers to computersIn a cost-cutting move, the University of Montreal will end the use of cadavers in its practical anatomy classes. The University keeps 60 cadavers in good condition for several months each year at a cost of between $150,000 and $200,000 in salaries, conservation expenses, transportation and funerals. Instead, students will learn anatomy on multimedia computers, using a program developed by the University of Colorado. Students can call up any anatomic search they wish and the computer reproduces cuts to within a millimetre.Canadian Press, Vancouver Sun, Feb. 9, 1996
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