University of Alberta

Edmonton, Canada

4 April 1997



President Rod Fraser gets a warm hug as he greets Harriet Winspear.

Successful lift-off to fund-raising campaign

Gifts that remember the impact the University of Alberta had on live and gifts that hope to seed a better future were all part of $70 million dollars already contributed to the University's $144.65 million campaign. Nearly 700 people gathered at the MacLab Theatre Tuesday, April 2, for the public launch of the University's largest ever fund-raising campaign. Full Story


Combined degree programs to merge content and pedagogy
General Faculties Council approved the following three combined degree programs which will take effect 1998/99 if they receive Board of Governors approval: Bachelor of Arts (Native Studies)/Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education); Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education); and, Bachelor of Physical Education and Recreation/Bachelor of Education (Elementary Education).


India's former finance minister among honorary degree recipients
India's former finance minister, Manmohan Singh, will be one of seven to receive an honorary degree from the University of Alberta at its annual Spring Convocation ceremonies, this year scheduled for June 2-5 and 9-11.


Mike Sieben keeps three balls in the air: sport, academe and community service
When University of Saskatchewan Bears volleyball player finds it all at U of A student Mike Sieben finished his MSc, he knew he wanted to do two things: earn a PhD and continue playing volleyball. Both were important. But he wasn't willing to settle for a school that wasn't solid in both areas.


Michener Park Muslim residents protest loss of prayer room
Sixty Muslim residents of Michener Park and 91 other supporters have signed a petition protesting what they call the "grossly unfair treatment of the Muslim Community by HFS [Housing and Food Services]." The issue involves free space the Muslim group has used for the past seven years as a prayer room.


1997 Rutherford Awards For Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
To much of the world, Dr. Robert Steadward is recognized as the head of the Rick Hansen Centre, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, and the man who helped build the Paralympics to an international event on a par with the Olympics. To students in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, however, he's known as the man who can take a "dry" subject like first-year anatomy and make it exciting.

Learning to see and to say: Philosophy and art professors combine perspectives to get a better view
Art is dead. Philosophy is dead. There is a futility in everything. These statements reflect a certain critical postmodern standpoint, a theoretical pessimism about the future of traditional disciplines like art and philosophy.


University's largest campaign off the ground
The University publicly launched the largest fund-raising campaign in its history earlier this week. The goal: to raise $144.65 million over a five-year period, to support students, staff and facilities.


More than one in three have supported internal fundraising campaign
Do well internally. Do well externally. Fund-raisers across North America say that's the way it works. A successful internal fund-raising campaign at a university helps the institution's development officers "make the case" to external donors.


Windsor Park School part of the University advantage
How do they get the salt in the ocean? an elementary school student recently asked a University of Alberta professor. Kids, they say, ask the darndest questions. But the children attending Windsor Park Elementary School, just two blocks west of the University, sometimes get the darndest answers, often from world authorities just down the street.


NCEs, ILO, Medical Genetics and Research Technology Management receive cash
The provincial government is passing on savings from the restructuring of the Department of Economic Development and Tourism to the province's high-tech sector-and the University of Alberta is a major beneficiary.


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