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 ...

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.

Article content. An overhaul of the University of Athabasca’s board of governors was a necessary step to help the school move more staff into the town it is based in, the province says.

The president of Alberta’s online Athabasca University says the province’s demand that the school relocate 500 staffers to the tiny rural town is so self-defeatingly backward it threatens to ...

Alberta wants Athabasca University, an online university, to prop up the town’s economy by moving employees to the rural region ...

Two years ago, town residents formed a lobby group called Keep Athabasca in Athabasca University and hired Hal Danchilla, a well-known lobbyist with strong UCP connections. For a time, the town paid ...

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 ...

Demetrios Nicolaides indicated yesterday he hasn’t changed his mind about requiring Athabasca University’s nine top executives to move to the town of Athabasca by 2025. Athabasca University’s mostly ...

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.

Tyler Harbaruk says Athabasca University gave him the flexibility to pursue a degree while working full time, ... Growing up in the oilpatch town of Macklin, Sask., it was a way of life.