THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

Opinions

  • Top university administrators should take voluntary pay cut

    By January 23, 2013

    The university’s president and other top executives should take a modest pay cut as a gesture of good faith to the rest of the campus community, even if the money saved would be just a drop in the $44.5-million deficit bucket.

  • With information and action, students can force change on campus — and should

    By January 23, 2013

    There is a widespread but entirely misguided assumption on campus that the university must make drastic cuts right now, so it is our duty as students to accept what administrators decide. After all, don’t they know better? No. They don’t.

  • Don’t rank programs by their financial benefits to the university

    By January 23, 2013

    What worries me the most about TransformUS is Program Prioritization. This process will rank academic disciplines based on their contribution to the university’s success. Highly ranked programs will receive increased resources while those with lower rankings will see reduced resources or be cut entirely.

  • Is this it for cuts to the arts?

    By January 23, 2013

    Constant funding cuts endanger the structural foundations of the arts.[/caption]Belt-tightening as a response to spending cuts is already being felt in the fine arts and humanities departments.

  • Emma Lake campus loss a blow to arts and science

    By January 23, 2013

    Paying more money for a lower-quality education with fewer resources is ridiculous. I’ll admit I found the last few increases in student tuition rates perplexing, but I (naively) believed that I would be getting more because of them. I thought that my education would now be worth more because it was more expensive.

  • SurveyUS: some thoughtful comments from our respondents

    By January 23, 2013

    This article contains a selection of some of the more thoughtful or thought-provoking comments we received in response to our financial survey. We will add more excerpts to this list over the next few days.

  • Learning another language is worth the agony

    By January 18, 2013

    There’s something wonderful about wrapping your mouth around a foreign word. You fumble with the unfamiliar syllables but you eventually produce something, understandable or not.

  • NHL hockey is back, but do you really care?

    By January 17, 2013

    The NHL is back in business. Whoa, calm down! Is the excitement actually seeping out of every pore of your body, or are you nonchalantly shrugging your shoulders at the announcement like I am?