Learning lost in discourse over foreign students
Dr. David Sylvester desires more nuance in the media coverage and public discourse about the 45-per-cent drop in foreign student enrolment at postsecondary institutions in 2024-25 reported by Universities Canada earlier this month.
St. Mike’s seminars create launching pad for first-year students
The University of St. Michael’s College is trying to make the leap from high school to post-secondary education a little easier with the introduction of a number of seminars that open up university life to the freshman class.
Interfaith student dialogue welcomes Jewish participants
Catholic universities: freeing the mind to discover
Catholic universities are bastions of informed and adventurous secularism. In fact, the more overtly and decidedly Catholic a university becomes the more it is able to contribute to secular Canadian society.
Dominicans open up the conversation
TORONTO - The biggest theological conference in Toronto since 1967 brought more than 200 scholars to the University of St. Michael’s College to look at the same subject theologians were wondering about then — the Second Vatican Council.
Mulroney takes world view of Catholic education
TORONTO - The diplomat’s take on what it means to be educated includes getting out of your country and out of your comfort zone. For incoming University of St. Michael’s College president David Mulroney, his diplomat’s understanding of education also happens to be Catholic.