#DanielJutras also says students from the rest of #Canada aren’t making Montreal less #French, and the decision to target #Concordia and #McGill won’t help French universities much.
He made the comments in an interview published Thursday by #LaPresse.»
« #Concordia and #McGill universities are suing the #Quebec government over its new #tuition policies, which would hike rates for out-of-province and international #students hoping to study in the province.
A letter from Concordia president and vice-chancellor #GrahamCarr said the university does "not enter the process lightly" and that it "tried to engage with the government in good faith on the tuition issue throughout the fall" »
Good job McGill! #Legault will realize really quickly that #Québec has some very wealthy anglo donors.
McGill University is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to McGill will be eligible for the new award.
[...] The award will be guaranteed as an offset on increased tuition for up to four years.
Une bonne partie des étudiants de McGill viennent du Québec. Plusieurs sont francophones (20 %). Et au total, 57 % des étudiants de McGill parlent français à leur entrée à l’Université.(...)
Quant aux étudiants qui vont choisir de rester ici, plusieurs vont apprendre le français, comme la majorité des Québécois anglophones (70 % sont bilingues). Leurs enfants n’auront pas le choix, puisqu’ils devront aller à l’école en français.
"We regret to announce that SPHR will no longer be able to use the McGill name," the students' society announced.
McGill University has ordered a Palestinian-rights group on campus to remove the word “McGill” from its name after talks broke down between the two sides.
"So why is the premier so hell-bent on destroying institutions that have given so much to the province and the world? For one thing, his former party, the separatist Parti Québécois, is eating his lunch at the polls. [...] Legault wants to re-establish his bona fides with nationalist francophone voters, and figures putting the boot to Anglophones is one way to do it."
«Let’s not mince words: #Quebec Premier #FrançoisLegault wants 2 kill #Montreal’s #English universities. On Thurs the QC gov announced it will hike tuition 4 mostly English-speaking out-of-province students by 33% & require that 80% of students @ #McGill & #Concordia become proficient in #French @ a “Level 5”, or the schools will lose funding. 4 most non-Francophone students, that will require the equivalent o another semester o study — a sure-fire reason not 2 apply.»
New changes “are far worse than those announced on Oct. 13 — worse for Quebec, worse for its universities, worse for Quebec businesses who need talent, and worse for McGill.”
Quebec’s “catastrophic” plan to overhaul university financing is a “targeted attack” on English universities, McGill’s president says.
On January 15th, I'll be taking part alongside several other scholars in a symposium organized by Wilfrid Laurier University on legacies of racism and colonialism in Canadian universities. My talk will focus on the use in 1860 of funds held in trust for First Nations to bail out McGill College.
Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past - Reimagining the Future (9am-2:30pm, EST, online) @histodons
A #Quebec judge has ordered #McGill University to comply with a deal it reached with a group of #Indigenous women that outlines the search for possible unmarked graves at a former #Montreal hospital site.
The #Mohawk Mothers had argued that McGill and the province's infrastructure agency failed to properly involve the panel of #archeologists appointed to oversee the search for graves at the site of a future downtown campus expansion.
The proposal would have made #French-language courses mandatory for undergraduate students in exchange for the government backtracking on its plan to double tuition for non-Quebec students.»
Someone really cares about #orthography (or maybe they learned it in class?) that they tried to fix the #spelling of our university staff... (Edited: the #Canadian Oxford Dictionary lists "enrolment" as the word, which is the British spelling, but includes the American "enrollment" as a variation. Canadian websites use "enrolment.")
«The #StudentUnions of #Concordia and #McGill are coming together to denounce the #CAQ's #tuition hike because of fears that it will price-out many #Canadian students and saddle them with more #debt.
In a joint statement, student leaders from both universities wrote, "We ask that the province consider the obstacles that this will cause for access to #education and the unnecessary financial strains on those who wish to study in our universities."»
Montreal’s mayor says she’s concerned about the economic impact of a plan announced last week to nearly double the tuition for students from other provinces enrolled in Quebec’s English universities.
Good thing daughter will only have one term left by then. Yikes!
University tuition to double for out-of-province students in Quebec starting next year
The Quebec government made the announcement on Friday, framing it as a move to stop subsidizing students from the rest of Canada who come to Quebec’s English-language universities for a cheaper education.