Accessibility Services would like to invite you to the UPEI Accessibility Services Orientation Day. This year we are thrilled to be able to offer two options for students to participate; in-person and online through UPEI’s learning platform, Moodle. This will be an excellent opportunity to familiarize yourself with and learn more about Accessibility Services at UPEI. Topics will include: 

• How to use Access Deck for Exam Accommodations

• How to use Moodle

• How to use myUPEI

• Information on Assistive Technology

• Information about Academic Accommodations 

• And Much More!!

In-person Accessibility Services Orientation will TENTATIVELY (pending COVID restrictions) take place on Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 from 9 am - 3 pm ADT. We will meet in Room 104 in the Health Sciences Building (HSB - #3 on Campus Map). We will send out a detailed schedule of the day by August 25th, 2021.

Online Accessibility Orientation will launch on Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 at 9 am ADT. We will also host a live Question and Answer session on September 2nd, 2021 at 11 am ADT.

If you are interested in attending any portion of the Accessibility Services Orientation (in-person, online or Q and A), please fill out this form: 

Accessibility Services Orientation Invitation Form 

A couple of reminders if you are attending the in-person session:

• If available to you, please bring your own laptop or tablet

• Remember to bring your student ID number, username, password, and class schedule

If you require Early Move-In for residence to attend Accessibility Orientation, you must make your request using this form and indicate your move-in date as August 31st, 2021.

Parking: Students will be able to park in the metered parking lot behind the Steel Building (SB - #6 on map). See Campus Map. 

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, August 31st and Wednesday, September 1st for the AVC Summer Research and Leadership Program Student Poster Presentations (using iPosters).  They will take place starting at 12:30 p.m. (and end no later than 1:45 p.m.) each day virtually through Moodle Blackboard (students will present in order and the timing may not be exact, so arrive early in the session).  The AVC SRLP program is designed to introduce DVM students to research career opportunities by involving them in a summer research project with a faculty mentor, with supplemental group sessions and a final poster presentation of their work.

You may join the live presentations through the following Moodle links:

Class of 2023, August 31st – https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/965c8677d45d49b2984eda240e86156c

Class of 2024, September 1st - https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/36d4c9b08df746748551693a1e657df6

If you are unable to attend the live presentations, you may view the posters and listen to the students’ pre-recorded narrations in the AVC SRLP iPoster Gallery.  https://2021avc-srlp-upei.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=SRLP_2021_Gallery. 

Please support the efforts of our students and their mentors and learn more about the exciting breadth of research at AVC.

Larry Hammell

Associate Dean, AVC Graduate Studies & Research

Email: lhammell@upei.ca

Did you know you can recover an unsaved workbook in Excel? Excel will autosave your workbooks (by default, every ten minutes). If you have not previously saved your workbook and close it accidentally, or if your computer closes without the workbook being saved, you can recover the document. Go to File, Open, Recent Workbooks, Recover Unsaved Workbooks, and choose the file that was closed before it was saved.

Join your fellow colleagues for the inaugural (and perhaps only) meeting of the Plant Pals UPEI branch on August 31st from noon to 1pm in the campus quad. Trade plants with other staff and faculty, finally repot that office plant outgrowing its container, or offer up slips/cuttings to folks looking to spruce up their new office spaces! Please bring what supplies you can, and even better if you have enough to share. Let's get our work spaces ready to welcome in the new school year while enjoying a little visit with our coworkers! Rain date will be Thursday, September 2nd, same time and place.

IT Systems and Services is preparing virtual student computer lab applications for the Fall 2021 Semester. We kindly ask that all Faculty and/or lab facilitators who require access to virtual lab applications for their courses please submit their requests via the form provided on the myUPEI portal.

Please complete this form if you are facilitating a course in the upcoming Fall 2021 Semester and your students will require virtual lab access to complete their course.

Please note that any virtual lab access previously provided for courses will be removed by August 30, 2021. If your students still require access during the Fall 2021 semester, please re-submit the above form.

In some specialized cases there may be costs and approvals associated with provisioning virtual labs, and in these cases ITSS will contact you to discuss next steps.

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, August 31st and Wednesday, September 1st for the AVC Summer Research and Leadership Program Student Poster Presentations (using iPosters).  They will take place starting at 12:30 p.m. (and end no later than 1:45 p.m.) each day virtually through Moodle Blackboard (students will present in order and the timing may not be exact, so arrive early in the session).  The AVC SRLP program is designed to introduce DVM students to research career opportunities by involving them in a summer research project with a faculty mentor, with supplemental group sessions and a final poster presentation of their work.

You may join the live presentations through the following Moodle links:

Class of 2023, August 31st – https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/965c8677d45d49b2984eda240e86156c

Class of 2024, September 1st - https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/36d4c9b08df746748551693a1e657df6

If you are unable to attend the live presentations, you may view the posters and listen to the students’ pre-recorded narrations in the AVC SRLP iPoster Gallery.  https://2021avc-srlp-upei.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=SRLP_2021_Gallery. 

Please support the efforts of our students and their mentors and learn more about the exciting breadth of research at AVC.

Larry Hammell

Associate Dean, AVC Graduate Studies & Research

Email: lhammell@upei.ca

Join your fellow colleagues for the inaugural (and perhaps only) meeting of the Plant Pals UPEI branch on August 31st from noon to 1pm in the campus quad. Trade plants with other staff and faculty, finally repot that office plant outgrowing its container, or offer up slips/cuttings to folks looking to spruce up their new office spaces! Please bring what supplies you can, and even better if you have enough to share. Let's get our work spaces ready to welcome in the new school year while enjoying a little visit with our coworkers! Rain date will be Thursday, September 2nd, same time and place.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Diane Montgomery's public presentation of her MEd research titled:  The Tiered Approach in Inclusive Classrooms.  Please join us through the Zoom link below.

The zoom link is:

 https://upei.zoom.us/j/64186808079?pwd=eW9GTC9KRmpRcHVJT3hOcjlPQWIyUT09

Meeting ID: 641 8680 8079

Passcode: 365665

New Student Orientation (NSO) 2021, is fast approaching as we get closer to Fall 2021. One of the events highlighted every year during NSO is Panthers 4 Change.

For this event, students fundraise for local non-for-profit organizations by collecting money and change around Charlottetown. Traditionally, student leaders and volunteers take the opportunity to run around campus to gather change from Faculty and Staff. 

To make it easiest for people on campus, NSO is hoping that all Faculty and Staff could put the extra effort to bring some loose change on either Monday August 30th or Tuesday August 31st. The NSO Committee is looking forward to another amazing NSO, and it would be great to have on-campus support! 

Here's a list of the non-for-profit organizations NSO is fundraising for this year:

• PEERS Alliance
• Canadian Mental Health - PEI Chapter
• Anderson House - PEI Family Violence Prevention Services
• UPEI Food Bank
• PEI Council of Disabilities

If you are able to collect amongst your area of campus, just contact nso@upei.ca for pickup!

If you have any questions about the upcoming NSO, please email nso@upei.ca. Thank you! 

On Wednesday, September 1st, 2021, between 8pm & midnight, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca.  During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable (including RXWorks & Raiser’s Edge).

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

Keynote: Manifesto for the Future: My Hopes for the Post-Pandemic University with Brenna Clarke Gray. 

The pandemic has made urgently clear that the inequities of race, gender, class, ability, and sexuality that are baked into our experience of post-secondary education cannot be allowed to continue. And yet many additional violences have been done to our students over the last year, most notably through the rise — and normalization — of surveillance capitalist solutions in education. Leaning heavily on ethic of care thinking and a desire to find hope in this very dark time, this talk invites all participants to come and think together, plan a resistance, and ultimately imagine a better future for all of us.

The keynote will be followed by a 45-minute workshop taking participants through a guided reflection drawing on ideas from the keynote and experiences of teaching and learning during the pandemic. 

UPEI faculty and staff are invited to register in advance.  Register for the keynote and/or the workshop. 

Questions?  Contact TLC@upei.ca

Join your fellow colleagues for the inaugural (and perhaps only) meeting of the Plant Pals UPEI branch on August 31st from noon to 1pm in the campus quad. Trade plants with other staff and faculty, finally repot that office plant outgrowing its container, or offer up slips/cuttings to folks looking to spruce up their new office spaces! Please bring what supplies you can, and even better if you have enough to share. Let's get our work spaces ready to welcome in the new school year while enjoying a little visit with our coworkers! Rain date will be Thursday, September 2nd, same time and place.

The Faculty of Education would like to invite all to attend Diane Montgomery's public presentation of her MEd research titled:  The Tiered Approach in Inclusive Classrooms.  Please join us through the Zoom link below.

The zoom link is:

 https://upei.zoom.us/j/64186808079?pwd=eW9GTC9KRmpRcHVJT3hOcjlPQWIyUT09

Meeting ID: 641 8680 8079

Passcode: 365665

New Student Orientation (NSO) 2021, is fast approaching as we get closer to Fall 2021. One of the events highlighted every year during NSO is Panthers 4 Change.

For this event, students fundraise for local non-for-profit organizations by collecting money and change around Charlottetown. Traditionally, student leaders and volunteers take the opportunity to run around campus to gather change from Faculty and Staff. 

To make it easiest for people on campus, NSO is hoping that all Faculty and Staff could put the extra effort to bring some loose change on either Monday August 30th or Tuesday August 31st. The NSO Committee is looking forward to another amazing NSO, and it would be great to have on-campus support! 

Here's a list of the non-for-profit organizations NSO is fundraising for this year:

• PEERS Alliance
• Canadian Mental Health - PEI Chapter
• Anderson House - PEI Family Violence Prevention Services
• UPEI Food Bank
• PEI Council of Disabilities

If you are able to collect amongst your area of campus, just contact nso@upei.ca for pickup!

If you have any questions about the upcoming NSO, please email nso@upei.ca. Thank you! 

Ethics protocols that involve ‘more than minimal risk’ must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday August 27, 2021.

Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve ‘more than minimal risk’, renewals, and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researcherportal@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the REB review and approval process please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at mknight@upei.ca

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday August 27, 2021. These applications will be reviewed at the September 2021 meeting.

All research compliance applications, including Biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researcherportal@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the IBC review and approval process please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at mknight@upei.ca

Ethics protocols that involve ‘more than minimal risk’ must be reviewed by the full UPEI Research Ethics Board (REB). The next deadline for submitting these protocols is Friday August 27, 2021.

Other ethics protocol submissions, including new applications that do not involve ‘more than minimal risk’, renewals, and amendments may be submitted at any time. They will be sent for delegated review as soon as all necessary forms are received.

All research compliance applications, including Research Ethics Board application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researcherportal@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the REB review and approval process please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at mknight@upei.ca

The next deadline for submitting Biosafety applications including new applications, renewals and/or amendments is Friday August 27, 2021. These applications will be reviewed at the September 2021 meeting.

All research compliance applications, including Biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the Researcher Portal. This online system is paired with electronic approvals to replace the hard-copy signatures process.

Information about the Researcher Portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms. Contact researcherportal@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the Researcher Portal.

For more information about the IBC review and approval process please contact Joy Knight (Compliance Coordinator) at mknight@upei.ca

On Wednesday, September 1st, 2021, between 8pm & midnight, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the Remote Desktop Services accessed via the website myDesktop.upei.ca.  During this time, any remote desktops or applications accessed via this site will be unavailable (including RXWorks & Raiser’s Edge).

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

Applications for the Co-operative Education program are now open. Students in the co-op program gain valuable career skills and paid, hands-on work experience in their field of study. 

Students can learn more and apply online on the co-op website. 

Applications close September 19th. 

For questions about the program, please email co-op@upei.ca or call 902-566-0336.