Western University and Fanshawe College

[jammer139]

CBS 60 minutes aired a great piece on the international iGEM competition. It's interesting that Western does not have a team or mentors a local High School team in this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/igem-students-lyme-research-60-minutes-video-2025-11-30/

list of teams sorted by country

https://teams.igem.org/?competitionType=&year=2025&order=ASC&orderBy=country&page=1&pageSize=20

[jammer139]

Exit incentives being offered to Fanshawe workers.

It's probably time to end the freeze of university and college tuitions for domestic students. And look seriously at programs that are needed in the economy with targeted freezes while allowing others to see tuition increases. It's long overdue to think about education in a more strategic way and invest with a vision for the future.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/ou...awe-offers-exit-incentives-to-all-staff/

[jammer139]

Looks like they are wrapping up the forming and pouring of the foundation walls for the new Western Research Park of Western University $44M Pathogen Research Centre.

render in this article - https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...vance-infectious-disease-innovation.html

[jammer139]

Renders of the new Pathogen Research Lab building now under construction on the west side of Western Rd in the Research Park.

Project highlights
Snapshot
• Project Size: 20,000 sq. ft.
• Project Type: Research/Lab
• Status: In construction
• Target Occupancy: 2027

Details
• Two containment labs
Centre Includes:
• ImPaKT
• Microbial Transmissions
• GMP (Vaccines)

PaRC Location
The new facility is located between Stiller Centre and National Research Centre and is visible from Western Road.

https://www.uwo.ca/fm/projects/capital_projects/parc.html

[jammer139]

"Fanshawe College president Peter Devlin told staff at a town hall Tuesday morning the college still needs to cut 163 positions, bringing the total number of jobs eliminated to 500 since last spring."

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/fans...re-jobs-despite-provincial-funding-boost

[MolsonExport]

It is a terrible time to be a part-time lecturer. Nobody is hiring. Western has eliminated a great many sections that would usually be taught by part-timers.

[jammer139]

Looks like Huron is hiring...


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/er...ersity-to-train-future-leaders-9.7096081

[jammer139]

Fanshawe announces they will shutdown their building at Wellington and Bradley effective Sept 1st 2026. What they intend to do with the property going forward hasn't been decided.

Citing a decline in international enrolment and financial constraints, Fanshawe College will be closing its London South Campus later this year.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/fanshawe-college-to-shutter-london-south-campus/

[MolsonExport]

The old Westervelt College Building.

Remember the ads? "Westervelt College!!!"

[jammer139]

If they sell it off the site would be perfect for a nice 35s residential tower on the BRT. Developers would be interested I suspect if it went on the market.

[MolsonExport]

for old time's sake

• Video Link

0:11 for "Westervelt college!!!!"

[ssiguy]

I'm dating myself but since when was Huron a university? It was always called Huron College and was just a wing of Western. Do you get a Western or Huron degree when you graduate?

[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by jammer139

Fanshawe announces they will shutdown their building at Wellington and Bradley effective Sept 1st 2026. What they intend to do with the property going forward hasn't been decided.

Citing a decline in international enrolment and financial constraints, Fanshawe College will be closing its London South Campus later this year.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/fanshawe-college-to-shutter-london-south-campus/

Is this only news now? I thought this was out last summer when they made their big job cuts announcements. My daughter was on a contract filling a temp vacancy that was being cut and said the south campus was part of the cuts upcoming. Surprising that wasn't reported back then.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

I'm dating myself but since when was Huron a university? It was always called Huron College and was just a wing of Western. Do you get a Western or Huron degree when you graduate?

The affiliates get a Western Degree when they graduate. I believe that the formal names are Huron (Kings) University College.

[jammer139]

CTV story on the shutdown of the south Fanshawe campus building.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/no...ampus-as-international-enrollment-drops/

[jammer139]

More program cuts announced at Fanshawe.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/fans...e-more-programs-amid-ongoing-budget-woes

[jammer139]

Another drop expected in enrollment of international students at Fanshawe.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/in...college-about-to-take-another-big-slide/

[jammer139]

They have now poured some of the ground floor walls and posts and have about half the structural steel installed for the new Pathogen Research Centre (PaRC) building at Western Research Park.

[jammer139]

Western maps out long range campus plans.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/we...t-decades-long-vision-for-campus-growth/

[jammer139]

Writing of exams is long overdue for major changes in order to fight the use of AI and other technologies used for cheating. It's far to easy now for students to get away with cheating on assignments and exams.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/over...-cheated-on-exam-western-university-prof