5 programs at Algoma University no longer taking in new students for 1 year

Jonathan Migneault · CBC News

· Posted: May 02, 2025 2:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

Algoma University is not taking successful caller students into five world programs that person debased enrolment numbers.

The assemblage said successful an interior memo that it shared with CBC News that it is pausing caller intake to its geography, history, music, sociology and ocular arts programs for 1 year.

"I privation to guarantee everyone that students presently enrolled successful these programs volition not beryllium affected," said the memo, written by Donna Rogers, Algoma's interim president and vice-chancellor.

"All second-, third-, and fourth-year students volition proceed their studies uninterrupted, with afloat entree to the courses and world enactment they require."

In the memo, Rogers said the programme suspensions were spurred by a 2022 study from Ontario's auditor wide that recommended universities look astatine the fiscal publication of each of their world programs, and restructure wherever needed.

A 2024 follow-up recovered that Algoma had made "little to nary progress" connected auditing its programs to find which ones weren't financially viable.

"In alignment with this proposal and our committedness to sustainable world programming, the committee of governors has approved a time-limited, one-year intermission connected first-year admittance intake into 5 low-enrolment programs," Rogers said.