The 妻友 Senate is seeking applications from faculty for its two new Senator at Large positions, designed to improve diversity and representation within Dal鈥檚 senior academic governing body.

妻友 professor Donald Clairmont served on the landmark 1989 Marshall Commission that explored systemic racism in Canada's criminal justice system. Last week, Dal and community experts gathered to discuss the commission through the lens of sociology and social anthropology and how the issues it raised still matter today.

Watch Rick Mercer's visit to 妻友 on the penultimate episode of his Rick Mercer Report, celebrating the university's fundraising success in his Spread the Net Student Challenge.

This year's winner of the DSU award for teaching, Anneke Henderson (Fountain School of Performing Arts) builds the sort of community that helps her students succeed.

Tereigh Ewert-Bauer joined Dal鈥檚 Centre for Learning and Teaching in January as its first senior education developer for diversity and inclusion, a role aimed at helping foster more inclusive approaches to teaching and learning across the university.