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| Yesterday | Wednesday, August 11, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca Information and submissions: bulletin@uwaterloo.ca |
A “news flash” in the August issue of Waterloo Warriors’ “Gold and Black Newsletter” announces that men’s rugby – not football – will take centre stage on Black and Gold Day during orientation week in September.
“Attendance records will be broken on September 11 when the men’s rugby team hosts the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks at the Columbia Field for their home opener of the OUA season,” the newsletter predicts.
“In the past, Black and Gold Day has incorporated the Warriors’ home football game,” it explains. “Since the football Warriors play on the road in Hamilton (McMaster) this year, all activities and events will centre around the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ rugby game at the Columbia Fields.
“Black and Gold Day usually attracts 2,500 to 3,000 first-year students who participate in a fun-filled day of school spirit, including cheering for the Warriors.”
His web site tells a little about his retirement plans: "He has put a lot of effort in making a Distance-Education Course in nuclear science, which is offered to students by CDs and Internet, and he will keep doing that as long as he can. So, he will still have some contact with people generations younger. For this course, he can be anywhere, and still keep in touch with students by e-mail. He is actually looking forward to his graduation. . . . Other than that, Chung will sort out and re-file piles of documents he has collected about his adopted father, the late Gen. Sun Li-Jen. He will continue to do so and write. The office, computer and Internet have been his sanctuaries." A graduate of National Taiwan University, Tsing Hua University and the University of British Columbia, Chieh is a specialist in physical chemistry and crystallography. |
The review team, which visited the program in the winter of 2001, recommended that it should be beefed up and possibly moved to the main campus from St. Paul's United College, where it has been based for decades. That led to discussion and the conclusion that things just weren't going to work, says the program review document, submitted to UW's senate (along with others) by the associate vice-president (academic).
Canadian studies was founded in 1970, the report says, "to encourage critical examination of the Canadian experience in its national commonality and its historical, cultural and regional diversity". There are 11 core courses from various departments and from the newest field, Native studies.
The program has few students of its own -- from 1994 to 2000, just six students graduated with a degree in Canadian studies, and 39 more with an option or minor. "The majority of the graduates have completed their studies mainly through Distance Education." In addition, Canadian studies "provides significant service teaching", meaning courses taken by students in other programs.
"Canadian Studies has high visibility outside UW," the program review notes. But the program "is limited through having little control over its own activities due to the oversight role played by the partner academic departments". The review team wrote of "a climate of benevolent neglect . . . inadequate staff . . . inadequate remuneration to sessional lectures, and unreasonable structural constraints".
It recommended that UW "should give serious consideration to relocating Canadian Studies, and assuming direct responsiblity for it" and giving the program director "an autonomous budget". . . . If there is not sufficient institutional support to ensure sufficient, secure funding, the program should be discontinued."
The "self-study report" that was part of the review "identified the following priority areas for expansion of the academic program: Native Studies, globalization, and world governance, all set within a social justice, human rights framework." That idea led to a proposal for four areas of social justice emphasis, including volunteerism, technology and science, Native affairs, and "the responsibility of the private (corporate) sector. . . . It was believed that such a focus builds on the concept of social justice which is central to the United Church," the parent organization of St. Paul's.
Says the report: "The Advisory Board met in January 2002 to discuss the new mission for the program. There was much disagreement and no consensus emerged. . . . Further consultation through to the winter of 2003 led the Acting Director to conclude that Canadian Studies was not viable." Senate approval for closing the program came in January 2004.
President David Johnston and Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr have issued an invitation to the campus community to attend a special announcement this afternoon about the Downtown Kitchener Campus of the University of Waterloo. The event begins at 1:30 at Civic Square in front of Kitchener City Hall. Among those scheduled to speak — The Hon. Mary Anne Chambers, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities. Light refreshments will be served following the announcement; complimentary parking is available in the City Hall underground parking garage off Young Street.
Tomorrow, the TRACE office offers a workshop entitled Becoming a critically reflective teacher in MC 4040 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Facilitated by Donna Ellis, the workshop “is intended for experienced teachers (those who have taught a minimum of three university-level courses independently).” More information is available on the TRACE website.
Beginning on Friday, Conrad Grebel University College will host a Mennonite Bible School Reunion for Ontario Mennonite Bible School and Institute alumni, former students, and faculty members. The weekend-long event will feature class reunions, local tours, a banquet and worship at First Mennonite Church in Kitchener. For more information about the event, visit the website, or contact Fred Martin at 885-0220, ext. 381, or by email at fwmartin@uwaterloo.ca.
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![[Chieh]](http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/fig/chung.jpg)
Peter (Chung) Chieh of the department of chemistry officially retired August 1, winding up a 35-year career on UW's faculty.