Together, the College’s faculty, staff, students and administration generated, and in October 2011 approved, its Third Integrated Plan (IP3). It was well received by the University Plans Review Committee, a committee designed to give feedback on all college and unit plans across the campus. Approval by Faculty Council marked the end of one stage of[...]

Earning a degree from the College of A&S involves a lot of effort, and it’s accomplished by meeting a challenging and demanding schedule of lectures, labs, and tutorials, researching, studying, and writing. Our students are dedicated, diligent, curious, and tenacious. Take Patricio Desjardins, a former PhD student from our Department of Geological Sciences, whose own[...]

In keeping with the spirit of the Treaties, in response to demographic projections, and due to our location, the College must strengthen and realize its commitment to becoming the right place for Aboriginal students to achieve their university ambitions. A successful future for both the university and the province of Saskatchewan will require that the[...]

I have only been in this position as Dean of the College of Arts & Science for a year now, but I’ve learned a lot in that short time about the college’s impressive faculty, students and staff. I’ve also learned a lot about its alumni, upon whose outstanding achievements the college’s reputation is founded. It’s[...]

Dr. Fred Mulder visited the University of Saskatchewan last week. He’s the world-renowned dealer of Picasso’s linocuts I last blogged about. He spent a morning with students from many different programs, including studio art, and culminated his visit with a great talk in Convocation Hall on Tuesday night. It received lots of media attention before[...]

This weekend I will have the honour and pleasure of spending time with Dr. Frederick Mulder, an alumnus of our College (BA ’64), who is one of the world’s major dealers of Picasso’s prints. Dr. Mulder’s degree here was in English, and he went on to receive his MA and PhD in Philosophy from Brown[...]

I’m in Seattle attending the Modern Languages Association (MLA) convention, one of the largest annual academic gatherings in the world. Tomorrow I give a talk in a session devoted to the digital humanities. The talk is based on work I did quite a while ago now, with many graduate students (including Jon Bath, now directing[...]

    Peter Stoicheff, Bill Thomlinson (CLS) , Alison Piwowar (A&S Dean’s Office), and David Bindle (Library) study an Otto Ege leaf. I was joined by Betsy Rosenwald and Alison Piwowar from the College of Arts & Science, and by David Bindle from Special Collections. Bill, Betsy and Alison were fascinated by the manuscripts, and[...]

  Recently the U of S Special Collections staff and I showed a selection of the manuscripts to Bill Thomlinson, former Director of the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron at the university. He has an abiding interest in the arts, is a champion of the university’s thinking in regards to a performing arts centre (the Clarion[...]

It’s interesting to see the attention recently being paid in the media to the issue of a university degree’s value – and particularly the value of degrees like those offered in our College. The Globe and Mail recently carried a front-page story on the issue, the StarPhoenix has run a column, and I did a[...]