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Monday, October 31, 2011

TVO’s Steve Paikin delivers 2011 Bell lecture

Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVOntario's flagship program The Agenda with Steve Paikin, delivered the 20th annual Dick, Ruth and Judy Bell lecture on November 16 on "The Personal Price of a Political Life." The author of four books, the most recent a biography of former Ontario premier John P. Robarts, Steve Paikin is... More

Friday, October 28, 2011

Intern in Peru through Kroeger College

Kroeger College will send up to six students to live, learn and work in the high Andes for six weeks in the Spring (May to mid-June).  Interns will be attached to one of the projects run by Nexos Voluntarios in Urubamba, Peru. The College will cover return airfare, participation and accommodation costs.  Interns will... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Co-op through B.PAPM

Ursula, the mascot of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, has been on a cross-country tour, taking the pulse of post-secondary education.  Most recently she spoke to Kroeger College student Barbara Hanna about how the work experience gained through co-operative education has complemented her academic studies.  Barbara has... More

Friday, August 19, 2011

9th Annual Killam Public Lecture

Fulbright Canada is proud to be hosting the 9th Annual Killam Public Lecture on Thursday September 15 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm.  This year, the renowned Canadian economist Thomas Courchene will deliver a lecture entitled “Rekindling the American Dream.” The lecture builds on Dr. Courchene’s recent IRPP Policy Horizons essay of the same... More

Friday, June 10, 2011

Activism That Works

Professor emerita Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore -- who teaches the capstone seminar for the B.PAPM specialization in Development Studies -- is the co-editor of a new volume examining how "success" is understood and measured in social justice and environmental activism.  Activism That Works looks at eight different social justice organizations,... More

Friday, June 10, 2011

College co-sponsors roundtable on “Arab Spring”

The Atlantic Council and Kroeger College will co-host a panel on the "Arab Spring" June 14.  Speakers include Dr. Michael Atallah of the Privy Council Office and Dr. Michael Baranick of the National Defence University, Washington D.C.  Click here to view the official... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

B.PAPM graduate wins Coady Internship to Ethopia

2010 Kroeger College graduate Kathleen Courtney has been awarded a Youth in Partnership internship by the Coady International Institute.  One of only 15 internships awarded annually, the opportunity allows recent university graduates to work with development organizations in their area of expertise.  Interns work for six months with one of the... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Kroeger student wins Tory Award

Graduating B.PAPM student Martha Chertkow will be presented with the University’s Henry Marshall Tory Award at the Convocation ceremony June 8. Established in 1950, the H.M. Tory Award honours a top academic student who has been active extracurricularly and who demonstrates the qualities of leadership. In addition to her stellar academic record,... More

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Into the Andes

Five Kroeger College students will be spending the month of May staffing a Campaign Against Racial Discrimination in the Peruvian district of Urubamba, in the Andes mountains. Ashley Gardner, Kaitlyn Finner, Olivia Tran, Chelsea Smith and Robyn Gibbard will be working with Nexos Voluntarios, a not-for-profit agency devoted to development and human... More

Monday, April 11, 2011

Witnesses to Rwanda

On May 14, Jenn Tod and Maria Loveys will be traveling to Rwanda for two weeks. Both Jenn and Maria are fourth year students specializing in Human Rights. They will be part of SHOUT Canada’s Reflections on Rwanda Tour, meeting with genocide survivors, viewing memorials and touring the nation. The initiative – co-created by... More

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Two Kroeger students headed for Durban

Blair Newbold and Khadija Ga’al are two of nine Carleton students selected to participate in a course on “Health Care in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” to be taught by Carleton professor Susanne Klausen at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban.  Organized through the Institute for African Studies, the course will examine the legacy of... More

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Visiting Fellow Jodi White joins the discussion

Jodi White, Kroeger College Visiting Fellow, Carleton graduate and former chief of staff to Prime Minister Kim Campbell, joins Edward (Eddie) Goldenberg, chief of staff to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and Keith Beardsley, former deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a freewheeling discussion today on “Inside the Prime... More

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