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May 31, 2011
Using the Arts in Rural Development

Conferences always provide lots of information and generate many ideas.  The CUExpo 2011 Conference in Waterloo, Ontario was no exception.  Although information and ideas are great to have, what do you do with them...

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May 2, 2011
The Next Research Powerhouses: Alberta’s Colleges – Applied Research in Innovation

As promised in my last blog, I am going to talk a bit about economic innovation within Alberta’s college system.  In March, I attended two consecutive Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) conferences, where...

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April 20, 2011
The Next Research Powerhouses - Alberta’s Colleges

I recently attended two conferences in Victoria, BC on the topic of college engagement in research.  One was the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Symposium on Applied Research March 22 to 23.  The other...

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March 8, 2011
Community-Engaged Scholarship: An Epiphany

First things first: what is community-engaged scholarship? Intuitively, it just means the academic world engages the non-academic world in research.  Therefore, research is conducted with the community rather than on the community.  For ARDN, that...

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