Athabasca University gets one-time $4.9-million grant to set new direction

Athabasca University will receive a one-time $4.9-million grant from the province to help it execute its new strategic plan and upgrade lagging information technology infrastructure, the government said Friday.
The funding announcement comes almost one year after Ken Coates released his government-commissioned report into the future viability of Canada’s only public online post-secondary institution.
Ordered by the NDP government in January 2017, the Coates Report evaluated all f