NAIT business students earned third place in a case competition aimed at tackling issues with the Fort McMurray Airport. The Alberta Deans of Business Case Competition was held between March 13 and March 15 at Keyano College. The competition included 11 teams from...
Not everyone is lucky enough to combine their passion and their career, but one NAIT instructor has figured out how to do both. Kelly Shepherd, who teaches English Communications, is also an award-winning author with a newly released poetry book called “Dog and Moon."...
The stress of finding classrooms, meeting professors and peers, studying and memorizing course outlines and carefully charting fast-approaching deadlines is a lot for a seasoned student, let alone a new one.
For those who experience periods, expressing the challenges of menstrual symptoms can feel uncomfortable, and for those without a period, it can be tough to know how to help. Particularly for those who were raised believing that period talk is taboo, it may feel...
Every year, Mom and Dad would take me back home to Vietnam to visit our relatives. For as long as I can remember, I hated returning home. I was accustomed to the Westernized way of life, and to be broken-heartedly honest, Vietnam was no longer my home. All the...
The phrase “long-distance relationship” never meant much to me, until I lived it. I used to scroll reels and quotes about it on Instagram, taking them lightly, never imagining I would one day resonate so deeply with them. But now, every single feeling I experience...
People often use the quote, “teamwork makes the dream work” to explain that working together can result in better outcomes than working alone. Who knew that words so encouraging could be so misleading? If you’ve taken a business class at NAIT, you’ve probably had to...
Across culture, religion and race, people all over the world celebrate the anniversary of another year passing in some festive way or another. It’s when we can leave the past year behind and cross into the new year with hope of new beginnings. Although most people...
I used to consider 20 C chilly two years ago. That shouldn’t come as a surprise—for 12 years, I lived in Sudan, a country where summers can reach boiling temperatures of 50 C in the middle of July. I question how I survived those scorching temperatures, considering...
Remember that random gathering of people with flags and signs outside HP last month? Well, the collective bargaining that prompted NAIT's academic staff association (NASA) to gather in public is still ongoing, and yes, students should be paying attention. Each side...
