WHITEHORSE, YT—The Yukon College board of governors has begun recruitment for the institution’s next president and vice chancellor. The successful candidate will be the institution’s eighth president and first to serve a full term as president and vice chancellor of Yukon University, Canada’s first university North of 60.
WHITEHORSE—Over 775 new and returning credit students are enrolled in classes this fall at Yukon College — a 17 per cent increase over this time last year — continuing a trend that has seen enrolments increase by 50 per cent since 2015.
Perspectives in Reconciliation participants stand together at the Carcross Learning Centre, Yukon. (Photo: Alistair Maitland Photography)
WHITEHORSE—Presidents, vice-presidents and reconciliation leads from 31 colleges and universities have returned to their respective institutions across Canada with fresh perspectives on reconciliation, inspiration about what is possible and new relationships to support their journeys.
WHITEHORSE— As part of its partnership with Nergica, Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College participated for the first time in an intern exchange. Nergica hosted Yukon College student and research assistant Noah Sternbergh for four weeks in Quebec, while Camille St-Arneault, an intern with Nergica and student at Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles was hosted by the Northern Energy Innovation (NEI)team at Yukon Coll
Yukon raised Nina Vogt, research assistant with Northern Climate Exchange at Yukon College has just been awarded the W. Garfield Weston Award in Northern Research.
WHITEHORSE — Presidents and reconciliation leads from 31 Canadian colleges and universities will come together in Yukon this week for the first time ever to focus on reconciliation.
WHITEHORSE— Environmental Monitoring certificate students at Yukon College can now benefit from a new fund created by the Yukon Party executive designed to help remove barriers to education and employment.
The Mines for Minds - Yukon Party Award specifically helps Yukon First Nations and rural students by addressing unique program circumstances like travel to remote locations, purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE), and off-schedule tuition deadlines. All these factors have been identified by students and program faculty as barriers to successful completion of the program.
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