On Saturday, September 28, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the Moodle application and related services from 8:00 to 9:00 am. During this time, there will be intermittent access to Moodle and performance issues. We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located in Moodle to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

Join us for free pizza and incredible information from Melody Dover of Fresh Media at our bi-weekly speaker series on September 26 at noon in the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, Robertson Library 201! As one of the creators of PEI Burger Love, Melody will recount some of the adventurous tales of building this iconic Island brand, plus key takeaways you can apply to your own business path. Register here!

Melody Dover is the founder and lead brand builder behind Fresh Media, a multi-award-winning creative agency specializing in unique brand positioning and original ideas. She started Fresh Media from her basement apartment with no start-up support, three client leads, and a second-hand computer, and the company is still going strong today. 

Over the past 21 years, Melody and her team have proudly helped numerous startups, small businesses, organizations, and not-for-profits locally, regionally, and internationally. She is also one of the creators of the annual PEI Burger Love campaign, which has had an unprecedented economic impact of over $14 million since it was launched in 2011 and raised over $440,000 for two local not-for-profits.

While sipping on cedar and chaga teas, we can start with digging into the Peace and Friendship Treaties, discussing what being a treaty person means.  Coming from a settler descendant perspective, Heathyr Francis hopes we will connect this discussion with two of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action: 

• 45)iii) Renew or establish relationships based on principles of mutual recognition, mutual respect, and shared responsibility for maintaining those relationships into the future
• 62)ii) Provide the necessary funding to post-secondary institutions to educate teachers on how to integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms. 

Heathyr plans to bring along some tactile objects to inspire conversation and some links to take away.  Join us in the TLC for conversations to shed some light on where else we need to go on these Calls to Action!

The UPEI Department of Music is hosting a performance by the Looking Glass Ensemble at 7:30 pm on Friday, September 27, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. 

The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, the ensemble presents a program pairing newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Randall Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green” and Arvo Pärt’s equally exquisite “Spiegel im Spiegel,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung. 

Admission is $30 for adults and seniors and $10 for students payable by cash or cheque at the door. Accessible entry is available via elevator.

HSE has moved all Occupational Health and Safety required postings that were previously posted to bulletin boards across campus to a virtual OHS board! 

Check out the new page here: Virtual OHS Board

As UPEI begins the process of developing its next five-year strategic plan (2025–2030), we are launching a series of conversations and consultations to learn more about what matters to University members and priorities for the future.

UPEI faculty, staff, and students are invited to join in upcoming campus conversations hosted by UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Wendy Rodgers.

Bring your brown bag lunch and help us be forward thinking about our University’s future. Light refreshments will be provided, and door prizes will be drawn!

The first conversations will be in-person, small group ‘flipped’ sessions. The questions we will be exploring are provided below. Please come prepared to discuss and share your input on the topics.

Tuesday, September 24 
Topic: UPEI CULTURE 
11:30 am to 1:00 pm 
Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall

Please think about the following: 
What are the key indicators of a positive, thriving culture? 
How will we know when we get there? 
How will we know if we are slipping in our efforts?

Thursday, September 26 
Topic: UPEI PRIORITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES 
11:30 am to 1:00 pm 
McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre

Please think about the following: 
Some of the key priorities that have emerged through consultations to date include sustainability; building trust; reconciliation; streamlined processes; and renewing university values. Other priorities such as student experience and success; budget transparency; and completing the UPEI Action Plan and subsequent Implementation Plan are also important to our University community.

What are UPEI’s greatest opportunities in these priority areas? 
How do we assess or measure these priorities?

Additional conversations and consultations, including hybrid sessions, are being scheduled for the Fall. All University members will have an opportunity to participate in providing input and feedback throughout the strategic planning process.  

Show your Panther Pride and your support of our UPEI Panther athletes by wearing your green and white no matter where you are! On September 28, take a photo of you wearing your swag and post it to social media with the hashtag #UPEIHOCO for a chance to win some awesome UPEI swag.

While Green and White Day falls on Saturday this year, UPEI community members are encouraged to participate any day of the week during homecoming and have the opportunity to win a swag item from the UPEI Alumni Office!

Need some new green and white gear? The UPEI Bookstore has you covered! From Thursday, September 26, to Friday, September 27, save 30% on select Panther Gear!

Go Panthers Go!
 

Get your green and white gear at the Bookstore for this weekend's UPEI Homecoming! We have a special 30% discount on select UPEI Panthers items on September 26, and September 27. To see the items, go to Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/UPEIBookstore) or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/upei_bookstore/).

All UPEI community members are invited to attend this event, which aims to bring awareness to reconciliation. All attendees are encouraged to wear their orange shirts on this day. For those who may have questions during this event, elders and faculty members will be on-site to talk with and engage in conversation. The event starts at 12:30, with the Grand Entry at 1:00 pm.  

Date: September 27, 2024 

Time: 12:30 to 3:30 pm

Venue: The Quadrangle, UPEI

This event will feature the LoneCry Singers as the host drum, with Michael Julian as the head male dancer and Kelly Sark as the head female dancer. 

Please come enjoy Indigenous artistry as well as cake and snacks!

Robertson Library and the UPEI International Student Office (ISO) present Postcards Home!

On Tuesday, October 1, celebrate World Postcard Day from noon to 3:00 pm at the Robertson Library by writing a postcard to your family and friends back home. We provide the postcards, and we will mail them for free anywhere in the world. Last semester, we sent 166 postcards!

Everyone is welcome!

Don’t miss AVC’s Open House on Saturday, September 28, from 10 am to 2 pm. Everyone is invited to attend this free fun family event, featuring all kinds of demonstrations and exhibits. Learn about different dog breeds at the Dog Parade, check out farm animals, dress up like a surgeon, and much more.

Kids, bring your stuffed toys for a check-up and treatment at the Teddy Bear Clinic, get some temporary tattoos, and pick out your favourite balloon animal during the balloon animal adoption event.

Organized and run by AVC students, AVC Open House is one of the largest, most successful open houses in Atlantic Canada. The event is one of many activities taking place during Homecoming Weekend (upei.ca/alumni/homecoming).

For more information, call (902) 566-6786.

There will be a basic biosafety training session on October 8, 2024, at 1:00 pm in AVC 287N. Topics will include basic biosafety principles and how they are applied at the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as biosecurity training. This session is open to everyone, including graduate students.

To attend, you must pre-register by contacting Jacky Buell by the end of the day on October 1, 2024, by email (hse@upei.ca) or by phone (902-566-0901). Please provide your name, department, your supervisor’s name (if applicable), email address, phone number, and if you are a graduate student. 

NOTE: An online basic biosafety training refresher course is available for those who need it. 

The Association of Atlantic Universities is pleased to partner with Acadia University to host the 2024 Annual AAU Teaching Showcase in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mik’maq people and part of the beautiful Annapolis Valley in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The 2024 AAU Teaching Showcase will take place in person on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at Acadia University.

Registration is now open!  For details, go to Acadia University - 2024 AAU Teaching Showcase

On Saturday, September 28, ITSS will conduct routine maintenance on the Moodle application and related services from 8:00 to 9:00 am. During this time, there will be intermittent access to Moodle and performance issues. We encourage students, faculty, and staff who may need documents or links located in Moodle to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.

Join us for free pizza and incredible information from Melody Dover of Fresh Media at our bi-weekly speaker series on September 26 at noon in the Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, Robertson Library 201! As one of the creators of PEI Burger Love, Melody will recount some of the adventurous tales of building this iconic Island brand, plus key takeaways you can apply to your own business path. Register here!

Melody Dover is the founder and lead brand builder behind Fresh Media, a multi-award-winning creative agency specializing in unique brand positioning and original ideas. She started Fresh Media from her basement apartment with no start-up support, three client leads, and a second-hand computer, and the company is still going strong today. 

Over the past 21 years, Melody and her team have proudly helped numerous startups, small businesses, organizations, and not-for-profits locally, regionally, and internationally. She is also one of the creators of the annual PEI Burger Love campaign, which has had an unprecedented economic impact of over $14 million since it was launched in 2011 and raised over $440,000 for two local not-for-profits.

While sipping on cedar and chaga teas, we can start with digging into the Peace and Friendship Treaties, discussing what being a treaty person means.  Coming from a settler descendant perspective, Heathyr Francis hopes we will connect this discussion with two of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action: 

• 45)iii) Renew or establish relationships based on principles of mutual recognition, mutual respect, and shared responsibility for maintaining those relationships into the future
• 62)ii) Provide the necessary funding to post-secondary institutions to educate teachers on how to integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms. 

Heathyr plans to bring along some tactile objects to inspire conversation and some links to take away.  Join us in the TLC for conversations to shed some light on where else we need to go on these Calls to Action!

The UPEI Department of Music is hosting a performance by the Looking Glass Ensemble at 7:30 pm on Friday, September 27, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall. 

The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, the ensemble presents a program pairing newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Randall Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green” and Arvo Pärt’s equally exquisite “Spiegel im Spiegel,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung. 

Admission is $30 for adults and seniors and $10 for students payable by cash or cheque at the door. Accessible entry is available via elevator.

The excitement for this Saturday's Gold Rush draw is growing as big as the pot! With no winners in the last FIVE draws, the total pot has grown to more than $16,000, with half going to the winner of the draw.

Gold Rush is a virtual fundraising initiative that raises funds for UPEI’s athletic and recreation programs. You can now select a specific team, club, or program to direct your proceeds from each of your tickets. 

Play today and every week for a chance to win! Download the UPEI Panther Recreation app from the App Store or on Google Play, or play from your computer. The weekly draw is held at 8:00 pm every Saturday.

The Scholarships and Awards Office is reminding the campus community that the deadline for the 1st Semester (Fall) Award Cycle is Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 11:59 pm. 

You can access over 100 scholarships and awards on the Scholarship and Award Application portal by clicking the link provided here or in the UPEI Forms section of your MyUPEI account. Review the application instructions and submit your electronic application by October 1 to be considered. Be sure to submit any saved applications you may have started.

Dozens of awards are also available with a separate application process listed on the 1st Semester (Fall) Award Cycle webpage. Deadlines vary across the fall semester, and award links are listed beneath their deadline month. 

If you have questions about the application processes, award criteria, or deadlines, please contact scholarships@upei.ca, or visit us in Dalton Hall, Room 202. Best of luck to all who apply!

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/