The path to Peter Russell’s door was a well-trod one. Leaders of provincial and federal governments, and First Nations, judges, prime ministers, scholars, university presidents, governors-general, members of task forces, tribunals, and royal commissions, all sought Peter’s expert advice.
On December 7th, the students of University in the Community (UitC) hosted an evening with the co-authors of the recently-published book, Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, A White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation.
Most of the time when we talk about a community, we assume that we are referring to a group of like-minded people who meet regularly in a public or private setting.
Resilience is one of those words that you hear all the time now. It is often used to describe an individual who has admirably stared down adversity or a community that has overcome misfortune.
When we first got together via Zoom during the Spring and Summer months, it seemed as if by some fluke we had landed in a place that we had had no intention of visiting.
Regular readers of Learning Curves will know that University in the Community (UitC) is an adult education program founded in 2003 by the Workers’ Educational Association, the publisher of this newspaper
Readers of Learning Curves will recognize the name of the WEA initiative called University in the Community.
I am the coordinator of a humanities-based, adult education outreach program called University in the Community (UitC).
As regular readers of Learning Curves will already know, adult education programs are as varied as the interests of the people who sign up for them.
Making the decision to return to college or university has never been an easy one. It often involves taking a risk by giving up a life-style that at the very least is familiar.
When you make the decision to go to school as an adult, you do it from a unique set of circumstances.
These days when you say that your grandparents rock, you don’t mean in a rocking chair! Baby boomers, many of whom are now seniors, have dramatically changed the face of retirement.
Newcomers to Canada can be forgiven if they think that Canadian educators and employers seem to work at cross-purposes.
If you have ever wanted to learn a new language, you will soon discover that it takes time and patience just to decipher the pages of online information, let alone to figure out how to register for a class.
Let’s say that you have been out of school for a few years working at a job that pays the bills but doesn’t interest you the way it once did.
Most of us have heard about distance education, but we may be less clear about how it works.
Adult students are starting to make their numbers known and Toronto’s universities are responding.