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Food Laureate, Anita Stewart, will appear on The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight at 8:00pm EST to discuss her current role at the University of Guelph. Learn more about The Agenda.

Is the time right for significant change – perhaps even a fundamental paradigm shift within higher education? What would such a shift look like? And to what extent might one already be well underway? Julia Christensen Hughes, dean of the College of Management and Economics, discusses major changes in high education and how those may affect universities.

The full article can be found on The Globe and Mail website.

On Monday, March 25th with support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), through the Café Scientifique Program, the College of Management and Economics is pleased to present an open dialogue entitled Obesity, Diabetes and Nutrition across the Lifespan: Implications for Health and Food Security.  The event will be held in the Trillium Room at the Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

Featured panelists include:
Dr. Stephanie Atkinson, Professor and Associate Chair (Research), Pediatrics, McMaster University

Four graduate students, including two from the College of Management and Economics, have come together over their interest in sustainability to learn from each other and to gain insight into their own fields of study. Based on their combined research, the group wrote a paper entitled, Paradox and Dialogue: Ecology, Management and Food Sustainability, which was recently accepted at the Agriculture, Food and Human Value Society Annual Conference. The group will speak at the Conference whose 2013 theme is "Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes.”

It takes a village to create change, and to make a better planet. Join us on March 25 for an evening at the Village of Arbour Trails with guest speakers from the University of Guelph.

Find out how the University of Guelph is improving quality of life by focusing on its strengths: food, environment, health and community. We are poised to make a difference in these areas and improve quality of life for people everywhere.

A new eight-week program offered jointly by Open Learning and Educational Support and the College of Management and Economics offers business fundamentals for non-business degree individuals. The new course will be launched at the University of Guelph this spring, and is intended to add more skills to your degree credentials. Visit At Guelph to read the full article.

Sylvain Charlebois, Associate Dean, CME comments on Target's entry into the Canadian market. Watch the video.

Article featured in The Ontarion.

On Feb. 25, the College of Management and Economics (CME), along with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, invited Dr. Rick Yada of the University of Guelph to speak at a gathering held at the Guelph Holiday Inn. The presentation was titled, “The Future of Food: Advancing Health & Food Safety.”

Elizabeth Kurucz, Assistant Professor from the Department of Business, is the lead author of Reconstructing Value: Leadership Skills for a Sustainable World which was released today and is due in stock with the publisher March 15.

Despite a massive snow and rain storm that overwhelmed southern Ontario Tuesday, a celebratory dinner honouring Roland Walton, president, Tim Hortons Canada, was held at PJ's Restaurant in the Atrium, Macdonald Stewart Hall at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Walton is the 2013 Executive-in-Residence at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University and will serve until tomorrow. Each winter semester the school invites a successful and prominent industry executive to its campus to meet with students.