The Alberta government has backed off on its threat to cut funding to Athabasca University unless the school agrees to relocate hundreds of employees to the small town that shares its name, with the ...

On March 24, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney visited Athabasca, 145 kilometres north of Edmonton, to discuss Athabasca University’s future at a town hall meeting. Peter Scott, the president of the ...

Under previous UPC premier Jason Kenney, right, Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides fired board members of Athabasca University who opposed his demands. An expert in university ...

There’s been a couple of twists and counter-twists to a five-month dispute between Athabasca University and the Alberta government. “There was a difference in tone and then they retracted that ...

The provincial government has told Athabasca University it must have 500 more staff working in the northern Alberta town within two years, or risk losing some of its public funding, the university's ...

The Alberta government has struck a deal with Athabasca University that will see the post-secondary institution increase the number of employees who live in the town that the mostly online university ...

Alberta's Advanced Education minister says he is willing to help Athabasca University with whatever it wants — including money — to relocate 500 employees to the small town that's the school's ...