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King's welcomes the new Director of Equity and Community Supports and Interim Sexual Health and Safety Officer

Dear King’s Community, I am thrilled to announce two very important appointments at King’s. Karen Mutyabule has accepted the role of Director of Equity and Community Supports. We were searching for—and have found in Karen—the right person to help us move forward in our work to make King’s more welcoming to everyone in accordance with my mandate,…

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What to know about the lockout at Dalhousie

To all in our King’s community, Notwithstanding the news we write to share, we want you to know we are looking forward to the coming academic year and to greeting you on your return to the Quad, or your introduction to the Quad. Today, Dalhousie announced a lockout of Dalhousie Faculty Association members. King’s shares…

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A student’s perspective: Writing About Rogues: Adventures of a Magazine Journalist

On June 24, an eager audience filled Alumni Hall to hear from esteemed guest speaker, investigative journalist and bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe. Keefe opened the evening by sharing the rather specific career goal he developed as a teenager: to write for The New Yorker.  He admitted that he was rejected by the publication in…

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King’s Journalism leads Black media study as part of $380K national research project

The changes faced by Black-owned media in Atlantic Canada are the focus of a five-year research project at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing in Halifax, N.S. Ethnic media in Canada is at a crossroads amid dire warnings of decline, even as these communities grow in size. The situation can…

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Inaugural Creative Writing and Storytelling Conference inspires and connects

From May 30 to June 1, over a hundred writers gathered on campus for King’s first-ever Creative Writing and Storytelling Conference. Hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA programs, the inaugural conference explored the theme of curation, examining how storytelling drives curation and how curation, in turn, functions as a form of storytelling. Throughout the…

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Call for Alumni Engagement from Association President Jenn Thornhill Verma

Dear Alumni, What are your King’s stories that have stayed with you in the days or decades since graduating? Mine is a tale of two graduations—one focused on my own future and the other on my daughter’s, perhaps not in the way you might expect. The first time I graduated from King’s was more than…

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Update Regarding King’s Responsible Investment Policy  

Dear King’s Community, On July 11, 2024, I wrote to you about our compliance with King’s Statement of Responsible Investment Policy and Goals (SRIPG). As a reminder, the policy, approved by the Board of Governors in 2021, states that the university “will play an active role in ensuring our managers divest entirely of investments in companies and…

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Words to Live By—June, no. 21

Each month, we ask a member of faculty to tell us about one book that played an outsized role in making them who they are today. This month’s contribution to Words to Live By comes from Inglis Professor and Cohort Director of the first MFA in Fiction class, Stephen Kimber. His choice is from a…

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King’s launches African Nova Scotian Journalism Initiative

Beginning in 2026—through a combination of scholarships, financial awards and tuition waivers —King’s will fully cover the cost of tuition for up to three African Nova Scotian students each academic year who are studying in the university’s undergraduate or postgraduate programs in journalism.  “This initiative reflects our commitment to becoming a more inclusive university—one that…

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