Students are still waiting for a refund By Spencer Dingle Communications coordinator for the UWSA January 14, 2009 I am still in total shock that Windsor students have not received any sort of compensation for the effect of the faculty strike earlier this year.
Really though, what has the administration done for us besides reschedule exams?
I was actually encouraged when I found out that the voluntary withdraw and partial tuition refund date had been pushed back from Nov. 7 to Nov. 26.
I thought that the administration was really helping us out there. I was impressed enough, in fact, to include it in the UWSA Student Pulse, a mass e-mail newsletter I write.
Directly after the newsletter was sent out to students, we received a call from the registrar’s office saying that yes, the voluntary withdraw date had been pushed back, but that students were not eligible for a partial tuition refund after Nov. 7. >> | Shortchanged on transfer credits By Chelsea Willis
4th year psychology student January 14, 2009 Did you graduate from a 3-year Child and Youth Worker (CYW) program and decide to pursue your education here at the University of Windsor?
Do you feel you got fewer credits for your Child and Youth Worker Program than you expected or deserved?
Many CYW graduates who have finished or are currently finishing their degrees here at the University seem to have this concern in common.
Among several students who have come forward so far, we have found an overwhelming number of inconsistencies in our situations.
For starters the number of granted transfer credits given to each student ranges from three credits to 10 credits, with most of us getting five or fewer credits, even though we graduated with similar grades in the same or similar courses and all from CYW programs.
Along with the difference in the number of credits granted, the courses we have been given credit for are all over the map, ranging from specified courses to non-specified courses. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Media fails to ask the right questions in Gaza By Paul Boin
Assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Windsor January 14, 2009 Regardless of where you stand on the current Mideast crisis between Israel and Gaza, what I find most shocking about the mainstream media coverage is the lack of media outrage over the blocking of journalists from entering Gaza by the Israeli government.
Since the crisis broke out on December 27th, I have been collecting and reading all the editorials published by the major mainstream North American newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Star). In these numerous media outlet opinion pieces that carefully detail their official stances on the current crisis, only the New York Times (January 6th editorial, yet still not enough) mentioned a word about the fact that their organizations were being prevented from doing their primary job – being a witness and recorder of world events for the publics they are supposed to be serving.
When one recalls how numerous and ferocious these same media outlets have issued their 'brave' editorial positions against being blocked from the courtrooms of a sexy murder case, the hypocrisy is unbearable. >> |
