Get to know your student ambassador: Evan Balzer
Hello! My name is Evan Balzer and you’re about to find out all about me. Brace yourselves.
As you can probably guess, I am a student at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg. I live with James Nikkel in Poettker Hall on the south side of campus. I am a goalkeeper on the men’s soccer team, and as you know, work as a Student Ambassador in the Admissions Office. I regularly attend chapel and worship nights here at the school.
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A Message to President’s Circle and Patron Donors
Dear Friends of CMU,
In this mid-autumn season I'm pleased to share the first of what will be three updates to CMU's President's Circle and Patron's Circle members this year.
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Some Canadians have limited options for financial learning
Canadians with low-incomes have limited opportunities for learning about finances, argues Dr. Jerry Buckland, Dean at Menno Simons College, in a newly published article.
In Structural Barriers, Financial Exclusion, and the Possibilities of Situated Learning for Financial Education, Buckland draws on the concept of situated-learning, or practice-based learning, to explain the limited options low-income people have for increasing their financial literacy.
Read MoreIDS Senior Seminar translation assignment
IDS students pursuing 4-year and honours degrees take a final, integrative seminar course to reflect on their learning and to think ahead to challenges they can expect in this field after graduation. The professor, Dr. Ruth Rempel, asked students in the 2014 Senior Seminar class to work on projects that ‘translated’ something they had learned into a form useful in a non-university setting. The assignment was inspired by Michael Woolcock’s suggestion that people working in international development require the skills of detectives, diplomats, and translators.
Read MorePress release: MSC presents Dr. Anil Gupta on learning from grassroots innovators
The topic “Empathetic Innovations for Inclusive Development: Can we learn from Grassroots Innovators?” will be addressed by Dr. Anil Gupta, senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
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