Faculty of Education News Archive

Faculty of Education
Challenging Education Privatization: World Café Event Sparks Critical Dialogue at U of M
June 13, 2025 —
Increasingly, public resources redirected toward private interests—through corporate partnerships, standardized testing regimes, and school choice policies.

Faculty of Education
Good Things Come in Threes! King Charles III’s Coronation Medals Awarded to Members of the Faculty of Education
June 13, 2025 —
The medals are awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community of Canada, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada.

Celebrating Excellence: Faculty of Graduate Studies honours award recipients at 2025 awards reception
May 27, 2025 —
Recognizing outstanding achievements in mentorship, administration, and research within the UM graduate and postdoctoral community.

Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
Honouring faculty excellence at UM
May 14, 2025 —
On May 6, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) hosted the Faculty Recognition Reception. The event honours recipients of teaching awards, community engagement awards, Merit Awards, and those granted Tenure.

Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
Humanizing the Classroom: A Creative Reflection at Teaching Café 2025
May 13, 2025 —
On April 30, 2025, educators and facilitators gathered for an immersive and heartfelt experience at this year’s Teaching Café, themed Humanizing Education: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Classroom.

Faculty of Education
The Canadian Press: ‘This is a call:’ Indigenous candidates reflect on running in the federal election
April 21, 2025 —
The number of Indigenous candidates on the ballot has dipped from the 2021 campaign, which saw a record number of First Nations, Inuit and Métis candidates.

Faculty of Law
The Hockey Conference is only two months away
April 16, 2025 —
Over the last year, University of Manitoba faculty and students from Law, Education, and Kinesiology & Recreation Management have worked with scholars, industry professionals, and athletes from across Canada to organize the twelfth biennial Hockey Conference. The conference will take place at The Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, from June 17-19th, 2025. The theme of this year’s conference is, In the Echoes of Reckonings. In support of this theme, the conference includes multiple keynotes, lunch and learns, as well as plenary and concurrent sessions. Following tradition, the conference will end with a game of hockey.

Faculty of Law
Master of Human Rights Symposium 2025 highlights critical areas of need for advocacy
April 14, 2025 —
The University of Manitoba’s interdisciplinary Master of Human Rights program’s annual Symposium took place on January 17, 2025 in the Moot Courtroom at Robson Hall. The Symposium gives students enrolled in the graduate degree’s practicum and thesis streams an opportunity to present their research and share field experiences. The students’ research advisors are scholars from the Faculties of Arts, Education, and Social Work, in addition to the Faculty of Law.

Research and International
The Conversation: As Canada is threatened, it’s urgent to revisit Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood
April 8, 2025 —
Early in his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump began making explicit threats about Canada becoming the 51st American state.