Trent Faces Potential $250,000 Increase in Library Licensing Costs
With files from Jonathan Alphonsus Photocopying books, newspapers, and journals and accessing e-books and e-journals is set to get either a lot more expensive or a lot more confusing. Trent is revising...
View ArticleFunding, not just Lower Enrolment, Closing Schools Across Ontario, Critics Say
Along with a declining birth rate, critics say an out-of-date funding model is closing the doors at hundreds of schools across Ontario, like PCVS. When the Ontario advocacy group People for Education...
View ArticleTrend Toward Open Access Research Continues at Princeton
The open access movement got a big boost last month as academic heavyweight Princeton University decided to keep the copyright for its researchers’ work in the public domain. Subscriptions to journals,...
View ArticleIndigenous Studies PhD Candidate wins six-figure SSHRC
For Trent University Indigenous Studies Ph.D. candidate Tasha Beeds, academia is about more than getting a high paying job upon graduation. It’s a vehicle for change. She’s researching violence in the...
View ArticleNo in-year cuts expected despite lack of enrolment growth
Following seven consecutive years of in-year budget cuts, including $6.2 million last year, Trent is projecting a small budget surplus for this academic year. Last April, Trent budgeted half a million...
View ArticleMajor funding cuts force Community Based Education program to seek new...
Following a 30% funding cut from Trent University this year, the university’s Community Based Education (CBE) program has cut student projects and staff and is looking for new funding sources. The...
View ArticlePeterborough’s average hourly wage the lowest
In 2010, Peterborough had the lowest average hourly wage among 34 major centres in Canada. In a study released last month by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Peterborough workers...
View ArticleTrent hoping to scrape food service satisfaction out of the coals
With campus food provider Aramark’s contract expiry date looming, administrators are scrambling to find out what students want to eat and how the university can serve it up on a shrinking budget. Trent...
View ArticleCuts defeated last year, but transit’s future still unclear
In one of Peterborough’s biggest news stories of 2011, more than 200 people attended a city budget meeting last January to oppose a proposed cut to transit funding which would have resulted in service...
View ArticleThinking of writing for Arthur?
For better and often for worse, I have a tendency to jump right into things. My first time writing for Arthur was one notable example. It was four years ago, during my first months at Trent when I took...
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