How to make the most of your sabbatical: Op-Ed

Mount Allison University Professor Elizabeth Wells offers advice on how to make sabbatical leave both productive and restorative. Rather than trying to do everything at once, she encourages thoughtful sabbatical goal setting, structured weekly planning, and time for rest. Sabbaticals, Wells notes, offer a rare opportunity to step back from daily demands and reconnect with […]

The Université de Moncton is taking action to combat declining interest from New Brunswick Francophone graduates, reports CBC. UMoncton’s goal is to welcome more than 30% of the graduates from NB’s Francophone schools, but that proportion has dropped from 34.2% in 2018 to 26.3% in 2024. UMoncton Recteur Denis Prud’homme told CBC that other Canadian […]

The University of New Brunswick has announced that it will be creating a new teaching model for nursing students that uses extended reality (XR), thanks to a $500K commitment over three years from the Government of New Brunswick. UNB will set up 14 training stations at its Fredericton and Moncton campuses, where students will be […]

Oulton College is renovating its campus and expanding its nursing program to help address New Brunswick’s nursing shortage. The college will create new classrooms and simulation labs where nursing and paramedicine students can gain hands-on training. These renovations will add 300 seats to the college’s nursing programs, increasing capacity to over 400 students and eliminating […]

Mount Allison University has announced that its new multi-sport complex will be named the Scott McCain and Leslie McLean Centre for Health and Wellness, in recognition of a $5M donation from alumni Scott McCain and Leslie McLean. The facility will initially serve as an interim library during renovations to the R P Bell Library. It […]

The University of New Brunswick’s McKenna Institute has launched the i4 Initiative in collaboration with Shoppers Drug Mart to address disparities in cardiovascular and diabetes care. The initiative—short for inform, innovate, improve, and implement—unfolds in three phases. Phase one analyzes how illness and health care usage vary by geography and demographics. “One of our goals […]

Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, the Cree School Board, and the Joint Economic Development Initiative (JEDI) have partnered to launch an Indigenous-led, interprovincial IT training program designed for Cree students in Northern Québec and beyond. The two-year program consists of five micro-credentials that are delivered online with in-person internships. Graduates of the program receive a CCNB […]

The Université de Moncton and Dassault Systèmes have partnered on a pilot project that will address housing, urban growth, and ecological challenges in southeastern New Brunswick. Over six months, the team will build a 1,000 km² “virtual twin” of the provincial region using Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE platform, drawing on data about zoning, biodiversity, infrastructure, and more. UMoncton […]

Several residents have expressed their concerns about the City of Fredericton’s plan to rezone and develop the College Hill neighbourhood—located near New Brunswick Community College, St Thomas University, and the University of New Brunswick—to allow for densification. Locals argued that this densification could lead to increased traffic, introduce risks to pedestrians, and make the neighbourhood […]