Tag: Degrees

Educated women are pursuing ambitions, not marriages

Of all the criticisms facing women today, the view that university-educated women’s supposed high standards destroy their chances to find love has to be among the most ridiculous.   A recent column published in The Wall Street Journal saw the author disparaging the “college gender gap,” pointing to...

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Niagara teacher tests value of university qualifications

Tiffany Dawn Sacco advised the District School Board of Niagara in May of 2011 that she had completed FSL teaching qualifications at Queen’s. Three months later, it was discovered she had no such credentials.  After a principal discovered that the information and documents she had used to support...

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Queen’s debates response to torn or burnt degrees

In April of this year, alumnus Scott Vrooman tore up his Queen’s Commerce degree on camera, and brought the pieces back to Principal Daniel Woolf’s office in protest for the Board of Trustees decision not to divest from the fossil fuel industry.  Months later, during the most recent meeting of Queen’s...

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High schools fail to prepare students for the real world

There’s a common stereotype that carries an underlying horrible truth with many university students. Hundreds of thousands of people in Ontario come out of three to four years of university with an undergraduate degree each year, only to find there are no jobs in their field of study. You know the...

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Critical eye on Jimmy Carter

Michael Shafron, MBA ’87 Next Wednesday, on Nov. 21, the reputation of Queen’s will be tarnished. The odd thing is that this will occur by granting a prestigious honorary degree to Jimmy Carter at Fall Convocation. Upon receiving an alumni email that proudly announced the fall 2012 recipients of honorary...

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