Candidates announced for 2019 UMSU General Elections
Campaigning will begin Feb. 25 following reading week and voting will run from March 6-8.
News
Mature students’ rep moves to expand portfolio
Part-time students may finally be represented in UMSU chambers if a motion introduced Thursday is passed.
CASA presents at UMSU board meeting
Following a recent recommendation from the UMSU executive to join the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), an alliance delegation presented what it called “wins” to students at last week’s UMSU board meeting.
UMSU amends community funding policy
UMSU funding for campus community groups is changing beginning May 1.
Education senate candidate builds platform
A long-serving Indigenous student activist is now running unopposed to be one of the faculty of education’s student representatives on the U of M senate.
Education for all campaign stops at U of M
Among defederation concerns and a meeting from a competing student association just hours away, the Canadian Federation of Students convened on campus Thursday to spread the word about its “Education for All” campaign.
Second Indigenous admin steps down
U of M administrator Barry Lavallee made headlines last fall when he suggested U of M president David Barnard step down from his position citing issues of racism on campus. Months later, Lavallee has resigned from his position.
Decolonizing political studies at the U of M
Do you understand Indigenous governance? That is the question U of M assistant professor Réal Carrière asked during a lecture on his research of Indigenous governance Jan. 30.
UMSU launches peer-to-peer tutoring app
UMSU’s peer-to-peer tutoring app has arrived.
UMFA lines up to protest “closed” presidential search
More than two dozen members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) lined up outside the U of M senate chambers today to protest what the association president called a “closed, secretive” process to find the next president of the university.