AUCC welcomes back two member institutions

By Léo Charbonneau. Two institutions have rejoined the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada after absences of differing lengths. The two are St. Paul’s College, located on the campus of the University of Manitoba, and Université du Québec’s Télé-université, or TÉLUQ, a distance-learning institution. St. Paul’s, a Catholic college and home to the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, instructs some 1,200 full-time students. TÉLUQ offers more than 400 courses and 75 programs at both the graduate and undergraduate level to 18,000 full- and part-time students. TÉLUQ was a member of AUCC from 1992 until 2005, at which time the Quebec government merged the online university with Université du Québec à Montréal. Read more...