Campus Notices
UPEI Board of Governors Chair Shannon MacDonald and President Wendy Rodgers will host a Town Hall on the implementation plans and external governance review on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, from 11:00 am–12:00 pm, in the amphitheatre at the Performing Arts Centre (PAC 121S). They would like to hear the thoughts of UPEI community members about these important plans as the University continues to make the changes needed to move forward, live its values, and achieve its mission of scholarship to the benefit of our Island and beyond.
If you are unable to attend in person, you are welcome to join virtually— please use the Teams Town Hall link below.
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The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre will offer walk-in clinics for the Meningitis B (MenB) vaccine for students on August 29, and on September 6, 13, and 20, from 8:30 to noon. Students are asked to bring their PEI health card or proof of international insurance, and their student ID. They can also request an appointment for a vaccine by emailing the Health and Wellness Centre at healthcentre@upei.ca. Please note: the vaccine supply is limited.
MenB vaccines prevent against a type of meningococcal disease that targets the lining of the brain and spinal cord and is potentially life-threatening. With a high mortality rate (10%), meningococcal disease is a medical emergency. It can cause death within days if prompt antibiotic treatment is delayed. The infection typically triggers symptoms such as severe headache, sudden high fever, skin rashes, vomiting, and a stiff neck. Among survivors, 10% to 20% have long-term complications, which may include hearing loss, neurologic disabilities, and digit or limb amputations.
The disease spreads between people through saliva and respiratory fluids. Engaging in activities with infected people, such as sharing drinks, vapes, or kissing, may put you at risk. The risk is higher for young adults up to the age of 25 years and those who are living in a dormitory or crowded space as the bacterium spreads quickly through large groups.
MenB vaccine is highly recommended by the Canadian Immunization Guide to protect you from this vaccine-preventable disease. Beginning April 2023, PEI began offering free MenB vaccine to students attending a post-secondary school. To learn more about MenB, visit Meningococcal vaccine: Canadian Immunization Guide - Canada.ca.
A variety of NEW small group training opportunities will begin the week of September 16. Train in small groups of six under the guidance of a certified personal trainer. We have a variety of options-- Beginners, Bodyweight Strength, Core & Glutes, Crosstraining, Powerlifting, Strength, Strength 101, and Weight Loss. UPEI personal trainers are Derek Smith, Oyin Eniola, and Danie Marais.
Fees: UPEI full-time students: $65; UPEI faculty/staff/retirees: $75; all others: $150 (plus applicable taxes). Each session has 10 classes. Maximum of six individuals per group.
Visit recreation.upei.ca for more information and to register. Detailed information on how to log into the system and register can be found here: https://www.upei.ca/ar/small-group-training. Please contact Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator, at amarchbank@upei.ca if you have any other questions.
The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the Atlantic Veterinary College will host an in-person symposium on September 13 and 14. The theme is "The human dimension of animal welfare: the intersection between animal care and the community."
Speakers:
- Dr. Michelle Lem, Founder of Community Veterinary Outreach, Veterinary Social Worker, Capital City Specialty & Emergency Animal Hospital
- Dr. Quinn Rausch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Veterinary College
- Dr. John VanLeeuwen, Service Clinician and Professor of Ruminant Health Management and Epidemiology, Atlantic Veterinary College
- Dr. Marti Hopson, Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer, Community Practice, Atlantic Veterinary College
This hybrid symposium will include a free public talk in addition to a half-day event that is open to the veterinary community in Atlantic Canada.
Thinking about climate change? Submit an abstract to "Turning the Tide: Island Imaginaries and Interdisciplinaries in Climate Change" before September 30, 2024. This third international conference on small island states and subnational island jurisdictions will be hosted from June 16-20, 2025, on the UPEI campus in Charlottetown and at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter's Bay. Local co-hosts include the Institute of Island Studies, the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability, and the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI.
Turning the Tide 2025 is an interdisciplinary conference that is open to everyone. It is a way to share stories, thoughts, and knowledge about climate change in the context of the lived experience of islandness. Think about how your work and experiences on and from Prince Edward Island can find expression and connection, and about how we can highlight Canada's smallest subnational island jurisdiction across the world. Take a look at our call for abstracts and find our submission form at https://projects.upei.ca/unescochair/turningthetide2025/
Calling all International students in PEI! Are you in your final semester/year at the University of Prince Edward Island, Holland College, or Collège de l'Île?
Looking to stay in PEI after graduation?
Don't miss the chance to apply for the Study & Stay PEl program. Apply now at studypei.ca.
This incredible program offers the support you need to excel in your career and fully embrace your time in PEI. Program highlights:
- Cultural and Social Adaptation
- Professional Communications and Networking Skills
- Career and Labor Market Support
- Access to Immigration Resources & Support
- Mentorship Opportunities
Applications close on Thursday, September 5, 2024, 11:59 pm.
Please contact us at studyandstaypei@upei.ca if you have any questions.
Renewal of Employee Parking Permits who use payroll deduction is now open for Faculty and Staff for 2024–2025. Please visit the UPEI Security web page and select “Buy a staff or faculty parking pass” or click on the app link below (note: app will not work with Internet Explorer). Permits holders in Lots B, C, DRC, and reserved spaces have no expiry date, but must be renewed yearly as well.
Please DO NOT select the lot you may wish to move into—that is what the wait list is for (see below). New employees will be assigned to the General Lots. All permit holders will be reassigned to their current lot/space.
We would like to advise that there will be an increase in permits this year. The last increase for a permit was in 2014. The cost of a permit will increase by 5%. This change will affect any permits issued or sold for the 2024-2025 school year. If you use payroll deductions your biweekly deductions will increase on September 13, 2024.
If you use payroll deduction, and no longer use a UPEI lot to park, please email parking@upei.ca so we can stop your deduction.
Employees taking a leave of absence from UPEI and using parking lots B, C, F, G, or DRC must email parking@upei.ca with their ID#, name, departure date, and expected return date to maintain access to their assigned lot.
All fields with a red asterisk must be filled in, including office phone number and if you have an electric vehicle.
If you have a student in your household that is starting UPEI in September and they have their own vehicle, remember to include the vehicle info, their name, and ID# on the application if you are paying for their parking. Students will only be assigned a general permit.
If you are in a gated lot and you have a student that will be using your vehicle to come and go during the workday, please include their information on the application as an additional driver. If you wish to add additional information after you have submitted your form, you must resubmit a new application and inform parking@upei.ca that you have done so.
If you change your vehicle, please email parking with the Make, Model, Province/State, Plate #.
If you would like to be added to the wait list for a designated lot or wish to change lots, please email parking@upei.ca with the following information. (Note: if you are already on the wait list there is no need to resubmit.) While you are on the waitlist, you will be assigned to your current lot until a spot opens in your requested location.
Employee ID #:
Name (last, first):
Contact Email:
Phone Number:
Current lot:
Requested lot:
Please direct any questions or information changes to parking@upei.ca
If you have already applied for your 2024-2025 Parking Permit, you can disregard this email.
902-566-0312
parking@upei.ca
NOTE: Metered parking is enforced on weekdays from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, year-round but is not enforced on weekends or holidays.
Dr. Jessica Riddell, professor of early modern literature at Bishop’s University, will give the second Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy on September 3, at 11 am, in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, Steel Building, UPEI. Her presentation is titled "The Times are Urgent: We must Slow Down. Building Hope Circuits for ourselves and in community."
Dr. Riddell is holder of the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Bishop’s University; a 3M National Teaching Fellow; author of Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and other Systems for Human Flourishing (MQUP, 2024); author of Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning (UTP, 2023) with Drs. Lisa Dickson and Shannon Murray; and founder of the Hope Circuits Institute. She was awarded the William and Nancy Turner Award for Teaching Excellence (2011-2012) at Bishop’s University, received the 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 2015, was the recipient of a D2L Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning in 2022, and won the inaugural awards from Forces Avenir (Quebec) for Most Engaged Faculty/Staff Member in 2022.
In her consultations and through the Hope Circuits Institute, Dr. Riddell pursues “an expansive call for the reinvention of universities and the renewal of their public mission. Dr. Riddell is a leading intellectual on the intersection between the humanities and higher education. She is one of Canada’s most prolific public scholars on the role universities play in a civil, just society and regularly convenes conversations about how education shapes creative democracy.”
The UPEI Faculty of Arts established the Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy in 2023 to honour the achievements of Dr. Shannon Murray, an award-winning professor of English and a 3M National Teaching Fellow. In 2022, Dr. Murray was awarded the Christopher Knapper Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, one of the highest honours awarded in Canada for teaching and learning in higher education. All are welcome.
Dr. Jessica Riddell, professor of literature at Bishop’s University, will facilitate a workshop for UPEI colleagues on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, starting at 9:00 am. Join colleagues from across the campus for this workshop focused on building our capacities for educational leadership and re-wiring classrooms that center human and ecological flourishing. Jessica will facilitate reflections on our individual origin stories that brought us to the academy and particularly to learning and teaching spaces. Once we have reflected on what called us to this work as educators, we will do some work on "re-membering" and centering purpose, giving thought to how we might anchor this purpose in our practices as university educators. An RSVP is requested but not required to attend. If you would like to read Dr. Riddell's book in preparation for the workshop, there are limited paper copies of the book available from the office of the Dean of Arts. In addition, the Robertson Library has a couple of physical copies on reserve and access to the e-book.
This workshop complements the second Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy that Dr. Riddell will share in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall at 11:00 am the same day. Her presentation is entitled "The Times are Urgent: We must Slow Down. Building Hope Circuits for ourselves and in community."
The UPEI Campus Foodbank was open weekly this summer, serving over 1,000 students and averaging 60 students per week. Twenty dedicated student, staff, and faculty volunteers worked with our summer student assistant to keep this important resource available to UPEI students. Thank you!
And now, we begin again! Our September schedule looks good. Please check back in case commitments change and slots open up: September/October Foodbank If you are able to support the foodbank with an hour on Wednesdays, please use this form for our November December dates
As always, thank you!
Dayana
Need help registering for courses or making a course plan? The Department of Student Affairs is offering drop-in academic advising for returning undergraduate students!
Walk-ins will be held from 9:00-11:30 am and 1:00-3:30 pm in Student Affairs, Dalton Hall, 5th floor, on the following dates:
- Tuesday, September 3
- Wednesday, September 4
- Thursday, September 5
- Friday, September 6
- Monday, September 9
- Tuesday, September 10
- Wednesday, September 11
- Thursday, September 12
- Friday, September 13
Advising will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
On Wednesday, August 28, ITSS and Finance will conduct the 2024 year-end finance process 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.
The UPEI Health, Safety, and Environment Department has coordinated with the PEI Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) to present an emergency preparedness presentation on September 4, 2024, at 11:30 am in Kelley Memorial Building Room 211.
Everyone is welcome to attend. Please register by contacting HSE@upei.ca.
We invite you to join us for the AVC Summer Research and Leadership Poster Presentations on Tuesday, August 27, and Wednesday, August 28, from 12:30–1:20 pm in the AVC Learning Commons Room 285N. The AVC SRLP program is designed to introduce DVM students to research 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.
The awards presentation will be on Thursday, August 29, from 12:30-1:15 pm in AVC Learning Commons Rm 285N.
Please come and support the efforts of our students and their mentors and learn more about the exciting breadth of research at AVC.
UPEI Board of Governors Chair Shannon MacDonald and President Wendy Rodgers will host a Town Hall on the implementation plans and external governance review on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, from 11:00 am–12:00 pm, in the amphitheatre at the Performing Arts Centre (PAC 121S). They would like to hear the thoughts of UPEI community members about these important plans as the University continues to make the changes needed to move forward, live its values, and achieve its mission of scholarship to the benefit of our Island and beyond.
If you are unable to attend in person, you are welcome to join virtually— please use the Teams Town Hall link below.
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The UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre is hosting some August Moodle tutorials. These sessions are available for staff and faculty.
Moodle Essentials, an introduction to UPEI's learning management covering the basics for running a Moodle course, will be available as an online synchronous session on Tuesday, August 27, from 10:00 to 11:30 am. An in-person session will be hosted on Wednesday, August 28, from 1:30-3:00 pm in the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre in the Robertson Library Annex.
Moodle New Tips and Features, a session covering some of the changes brought by the May 2024 upgrade, will be available online on Thursday, August 29, from 1:30-2:30 pm.
Recordings of the online sessions for both tutorials will be available for those unable to attend. Moodle Essentials is also available as a self-paced asynchronous resource available on the Moodle front page in the Instructor Resources section.
Register for these tutorials at https://forms.office.com/r/TyBqvLYbVJ
The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre will offer walk-in clinics for the Meningitis B (MenB) vaccine for students on August 29, and on September 6, 13, and 20, from 8:30 to noon. Students are asked to bring their PEI health card or proof of international insurance, and their student ID. They can also request an appointment for a vaccine by emailing the Health and Wellness Centre at healthcentre@upei.ca. Please note: the vaccine supply is limited.
MenB vaccines prevent against a type of meningococcal disease that targets the lining of the brain and spinal cord and is potentially life-threatening. With a high mortality rate (10%), meningococcal disease is a medical emergency. It can cause death within days if prompt antibiotic treatment is delayed. The infection typically triggers symptoms such as severe headache, sudden high fever, skin rashes, vomiting, and a stiff neck. Among survivors, 10% to 20% have long-term complications, which may include hearing loss, neurologic disabilities, and digit or limb amputations.
The disease spreads between people through saliva and respiratory fluids. Engaging in activities with infected people, such as sharing drinks, vapes, or kissing, may put you at risk. The risk is higher for young adults up to the age of 25 years and those who are living in a dormitory or crowded space as the bacterium spreads quickly through large groups.
MenB vaccine is highly recommended by the Canadian Immunization Guide to protect you from this vaccine-preventable disease. Beginning April 2023, PEI began offering free MenB vaccine to students attending a post-secondary school. To learn more about MenB, visit Meningococcal vaccine: Canadian Immunization Guide - Canada.ca.
As a buildup to the new school year, and a last hurrah for summer, Robertson Library would like to welcome everyone to come and have some free coffee or tea in the lobby today. Bring your own reusable cup any time between 10:00 and 10:30 am to get your morning coffee or tea!
We are pleased to announce that UPEI has obtained an institutional cannabis research license from Health Canada to carry out university-approved cannabis research projects. Although cannabis has been legalized for personal possession and use in Canada, all UPEI research projects involving cannabis, CBD, or THC compounds, including synthetic variants, must be conducted under an approved UPEI cannabis research permit.
The corresponding "UPEI Cannabis Research Permit Application" form is housed under the biosafety module of the ROMEO Researcher Portal. The purpose of this form and the related review process is to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and to maintain the highest standards of safety and responsibility. The permit is required before research involving cannabis can be conducted on campus, or cannabis obtained for this purpose. Please note that researchers must submit an application form for each proposed research project involving cannabis.
If you have any questions about the UPEI Cannabis Research Permit, please contact UPEI’s Office of Health, Safety and Environment (hse@upei.ca).
For more information about the ROMEO Researcher Portal, including how to create an account or access forms, please see https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms
The University of Prince Edward Island has teamed up with the Chief Public Health Office (CPHO) of PEI to provide UPEI students and any member of the University community at risk of experiencing or witnessing a drug-related overdose with free Naloxone kits through the provincial Take Home Naloxone Program.
Naloxone (also called Narcan) is a fast-acting medication used to temporarily reverse an opioid overdose until medical help arrives. Naloxone can restore breathing within 2 to 5 minutes and is safe for all ages. It only works for those who have opioids in their system. It does not create dependence, and it is safe to keep a Naloxone kit on hand.
Naloxone training is available online at Training—Take Home Naloxone.
Where to get a Naloxone kit at UPEI
- Security Services: Call 902-566-0384 24/7
- Dalton Hall, 5th Floor: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am–12:00 pm and 12:50–4:00 pm
- W.A. Murphy Student Centre, UPEI Health and Wellness Centre: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am–4:00 pm
- W.A. Murphy Student Centre, Room 201: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
- AVC, 428S: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am–4:00 pm
- Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 121: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am–4:00 pm; call 902-394-1386 from 8:00–11:00 pm
Supports on campus
- Sexual Violence and Prevention Office
- UPEI SAFE App
- Security
- EFAP
- Health and Wellness Centre
- Human Resources
- Fair Treatment Office
It is important to know the signs of opioid overdose and the proper overdose response as opioid-related overdoses are increasing on PEI. To learn more about signs and how to administer Naloxone, visit this Health, Safety, and Environment page.
