The Department of General Education, with the support of Medicine Hat College, MRU’s President and the Associate Vice President of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement, will be hosting our first Liberal Education Conference. Our theme is, “The Idea of the University and the State of Liberal Education in the 21st Century.”

We are pleased to confirm that Minister of Advanced Education, Marlin Schmidt will be speaking on the first day of the conference. Dr. Katherine Aidala from Mount Holyoke College and Prof. Natasha Bakht from the University of Ottawa will both serve as our keynote presenters. Please see the program for details at http://libed.mtroyal.ca .

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write the Chair of General Education, Karim Dharamsi (kdharamsi@mtroyal.ca).