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 ...

Athabasca University board overhaul needed to bring more staff to town: advanced education minister “While we will miss these exceptional educational experts, community leaders, industry ...

Athabasca University wants to move most of its operations out of the rural town that serves as its home base. The advanced education minister says it can’t. Now the institution is in turmoil. The ...

The province hasn’t changed their minds about requiring Athabasca University’s nine top executives to move to the town of Athabasca by 2025.

ATHABASCA, Alberta, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Town of Athabasca, in partnership with FFF Equipment — a joint venture of Primus Line Canada and Gemeinworks — is proud to host a ...

Demetrios Nicolaides says he’s granted a brief extension for Athabasca University to comply with his decree to move 500 staff to the town the institution is named for.

Alberta's advanced education minister has extended a deadline for a distance learning university to move more staff to the small town where it is headquartered.

The president of Athabasca University says the Alberta government's demand that the online school relocate 500 staffers to the tiny rural town is backward and self-defeating.

During the town hall meeting, Nicolaides had expressed “non-confidence” in the board and neither Nicolaides nor Kenney pushed back when members of the Athabasca University Faculty Association ...

As an open university, Athabasca University (AU) allows students to learn at their own pace, on their own time — regardless of location, academic history or life circumstances.

Staff and faculty at Athabasca University want to be included in talks about staff relocation after the provincial government asked to have 65 per cent of university staff live in the region or risk ...

ATHABASCA, Alberta, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Town of Athabasca, in partnership with FFF Equipment - a joint venture of Primus Line Canad ...