Campus Notices
The Board of Governors cordially invites all members of the UPEI community to the installation of Dr. Wendy Rodgers as the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Please join us Friday, October 11, 2024, at 1:30 pm in the amphitheatre of the Performing Arts Centre (enter upstairs via PAC 216-217S). Reception immediately following the ceremony in the Greg and Debbie Keefe Foyer. RSVP by Monday, October 7, 2024, to rsvp@upei.ca
Faculty members are also invited to be part of the Academic Procession and wear their academic regalia. The procession will assemble in Andrew Hall 142 at 12:45-1:00 pm. If you don't have your own academic regalia, there will be a limited supply of black gowns available. If you wish to participate, please email rsvp@upei.ca, and use the subject line: Academic Procession
All are welcome!
The Generative AI Taskforce (GAIT) will host two workshops for faculty interested in learning about GenAI. This second workshop will be tailored to the GenAI curious. Attendees will explore one or two GenAI apps and consider how GenAI might be used for course design, learning activity development, or the creation of a rubric. This workshop will be on Wednesday, October 16, at 1:30 pm in the TLC. Colleagues are encouraged to bring a device to this workshop.
The Generative AI Taskforce (GAIT) will host two workshops in October for faculty interested in enhancing their digital literacy and learning about GenAI. This first workshop will focus on GenAI basics, which will include time for instructors to discuss and develop a GenAI statement for their course syllabi (or for a specific assignment in your course) that fits with your pedagogical approach to student learning. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 15, from 10:00 am to noon in the TLC.
As UPEI continues to think about the best first-year experience or our students, Shannon Murray and Philip Smith will introduce two successful programs from our past: the First-Year Advantage Program and the senior student-led First-Year Seminar. After a brief description of each program, we will open up the discussion to the larger question of what we hope for in the experience of our first-year undergraduate students.
The second meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, October 18, 2024, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). To view the 2024-2025 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here.
All meetings are open to members of the University community, although certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees) may require the Senate to go into a closed session. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair.
For logistical purposes, members of the UPEI community who wish to attend the open session of a UPEI Senate meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person.
UPEI is a member of the Academics Without Borders (AWB) network of partner institutions, and UPEI's Dr. Ann Braithwaite, Professor, Diversity and Social Justice Studies is a member of the AWB Board of Directors.
As a member of the network, anyone at UPEI can respond to an AWB volunteer opportunity. To learn more about the latest volunteer opportunity at the Université d’Antsiranana in Madagascar, "Strengthening English Language Programs: Curriculum Development and Training Program for English Language Teachers", click here. (Deadline: October 21, 2024)
For more information about Academics Without Borders, reach out to Dr. Braithwaite at abraithwaite@upei.ca or visit the AWB website: https://www.awb-usf.org/
The UPEI Healthy Campus Commitee is extending your indoor track access at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre until October 3, 2025. Access is free, but you must register if you haven't before. Please read the following:
- If you had signed up for the track access in the past year, you DO NOT need to sign up again. We will adjust it on our end, so you do not need to do anything.
- If you never signed up for access to the indoor track, go to recreation.upei.ca. When signing in, ensure that you click on the UPEI LOGIN button and enter your UPEI email address and password, and go through the authentication process. Once you have logged in, go to the Wellness icon, click on the indoor track access and then on select, and follow the rest of the prompts.
The Generative AI Taskforce (GAIT) will host two workshops in October for faculty interested in learning about GenAI. The first will be a GenAI basics workshop, which will include time to develop a GenAI statement for your course syllabus (or for a specific assignment in your course) on Tuesday, October 15, from 10:00 am to noon.
The second workshop will be tailored to the GenAI curious. Attendees will explore one or two GenAI apps and consider how GenAI might be used for course design, learning activity development, or the creation of a rubric. This workshop will be on Wednesday, October 16, at 1:30 pm.
Colleagues are encouraged to bring a device to these workshops, which will take place in the Teaching and Learning Centre. An RSVP is not necessary.
The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions (new, renewal, or amendment) is Friday, November 1, 2024, for the November meeting.
Please note that as of June 1, 2020, all animal user protocols must be submitted through UPEI Researcher Portal at https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/
For new protocols select ‘applications’ and for renewal or amendment protocols select ‘events’.
To view any UPEI ACC SOPs and Codes of Practice, they can be accessed through myUPEI at https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/AVCAnimalCare/Pages/default.aspx.
Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month. The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.
Join us in sharing songs from around the world weekly on Tuesdays from 4:30-5:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building.
Relax, have fun, and sing! No experience is necessary
Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Come one, come all!
Applications for the Fall 2024 Work-Integrated Learning bursary are due on Friday, October 11, at 11:59 pm. Students who are engaging in a project or placement with a community or industry partner as part of a course or program requirement are invited to visit https://www.upei.ca/exed/students/wil-bursary for details and complete an application.
Do you have a business you're thinking about starting? Are you uncertain about how to register your business or what sort of regulations/licenses you may need to operate legally? Alicia Birt, PEI's business navigator, will outline the services and supports available through the provincial government's free business navigator service at the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE), Robertson Library 201, on Tuesday, October 8, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
Pizza will be provided to those who pre-register. Sign up here!
The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2024-25 Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar series on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre 204.
Jennifer Taylor, UPEI Department of Applied Human Sciences will present “Food Insecurity in PEI: Can Food Programs Address It?"
All are welcome.
Prioritize the strength of your password.
Happy Technology Tip Tuesday!
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (or Cyber-month), and we at ITSS are here to inform you that you should evaluate the strength of your passwords to ensure they are protected from online attackers!
Passwords are the gateway to most accounts, be they personal or private. These accounts carry important personal details, and weak passwords make it easy for online attackers to misuse and tamper with your information.
Spooked out? Don’t be! We’ve got resources to help you learn about password protection and more!
UPEI employees (i.e., faculty and staff) can access this week’s Cybersecurity Awareness Training course on Password Protection via the Terranova Cybersecurity Awareness Training Portal. Log in securely to Terranova with our UPEI SSO.
Additionally, you can learn more about cybersecurity on the “Become CyberSafe” section of the ITSS website at https://go.upei.ca/ithelp.
And don’t forget to tune into Technology Tip Tuesday every week for more tips and to get spooky smart this October!
On Wednesday, October 9, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the myUPEI portal and related services from 8:00 pm to midnight. During this time, there may be intermittent access to and performance issues with myUPEI, Self-Service, and Colleague.
We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca and Outlook email directly using https://outlook.office.com.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Hosted by the UPEI Department of Music, the PEI Registered Music Teachers’ Association and the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Association present trombonist Jo Dashney, winner of the 2024 Atlantic Young Artist Competition, with pianist Stella Hui. The program includes 20th- and 21st-century works by David Biedenbender, Kevin Day, Alexei Lebedev, Anthony Plog, and Barbara York.
Note special time: This recital will take place at 2:30 pm on October 8 on the SDU Stage in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, Steel Building. Accessible parking is available, and the recital hall has an accessible entrance via elevator.
The Office of Commercialization, Industry, and Innovation (OCII) is hosting a Research Networking Day on October 17, 2024, from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm in the UPEI Performing Arts Centre, Room 110S. The theme is "Building Research Partnerships in Human Health."
We are bringing together UPEI researchers, local companies, community organizations, and government to listen to short presentations about their interests, capabilities, and needs in human health research. Attendees will also have a chance to make new connections with others doing work in the human health research area during the coffee break and the networking lunch.
We are also creating a booklet to highlight the different UPEI researchers and their connections to human health research. We are asking each researcher to fill out the intake form by October 8. The booklet will include a brief description of their research and three keywords and will be used as a reference tool during the networking event.
Join us to meet others involved in human health research.
For more information and to register for this free event, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/upei-research-networking-day-human-health-tickets-1013717334837
Join Megan Glover and Lisa Steele on October 16 at 12:00 pm in the TLC to learn about Moodle activities for use in active syllabi and anonymous surveys.
The Generative AI Taskforce (GAIT) will host two workshops for faculty interested in learning about GenAI. This second workshop will be tailored to the GenAI curious. Attendees will explore one or two GenAI apps and consider how GenAI might be used for course design, learning activity development, or the creation of a rubric. This workshop will be on Wednesday, October 16, at 1:30 pm in the TLC. Colleagues are encouraged to bring a device to this workshop.
The Generative AI Taskforce (GAIT) will host two workshops in October for faculty interested in enhancing their digital literacy and learning about GenAI. This first workshop will focus on GenAI basics, which will include time for instructors to discuss and develop a GenAI statement for their course syllabi (or for a specific assignment in your course) that fits with your pedagogical approach to student learning. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 15, from 10:00 am to noon in the TLC.
