UPEI Career Services and UPEI Accessibility Services is pleased to announce the release of a new e-book titled "Transition to Employment: A Guide for Supporting Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities". 

This guide is a resource to help those supporting university students with disabilities as they transition to the workforce.

The guidebook can be viewed online via Pressbooks. 

Many thanks to the Robertson Library team for their support in producing this electronic resource. 

Questions or comments about the guidebook may be sent to careerservices@upei.ca 

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. 

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

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.

If you're looking to brush up on your communications skills this fall and winter, we've got some great online courses for you!

Each course can be completed at your own pace, with new content added each week. The short assignments will help you develop a portfolio of your work AND you'll receive a digital badge for each course that you complete.

Click here for more information:  https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/professional-communications-certificate or contact pdp@upei.ca with any questions.

The UPEI Work-Integrated Learning Department will be holding its annual Volunteer Fair on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 from 10:00 am–2:00 pm in McMillan Hall in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre. 

The Volunteer Fair invites organizations to meet students, share volunteer opportunities and recruit new volunteers. This event is FREE for organizations and students to attend. The event will be in-person and will follow all appropriate and applicable COVID-19 protocols.

If you or someone you know is part of an organization that is seeking volunteers, learn more and register for the fair using the online form linked below, or email careerservices@upei.ca

Registration form: https://forms.gle/FYSGQVrHNCmiBghp9

The UPEI Health and Wellness Centre will be offering a COVID-19 Vaccine clinic to all students, staff, faculty and families on September 10, 2021, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at McMillan Hall, main floor of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. It is important to take your provincial health card or student ID with you. If you have already been immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine, please bring your records with you. Masks will be required for this event. 

The vaccine is free. The clinic will offer both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. A second clinic will be held in early November to provide a second dose for those just receiving their first dose on September 10th. 

NOTE:  Please review the following questions prior to arrival

1)  Do you have any symptoms of COVID 19?  If you do please go to a screening clinic and request a test for COVID-19.  DO NOT come to the Vaccine Clinic if you have symptoms of COVID-19.

2)  Have you had close contact (face-to-face contact) within 2 meters (6 feet) with someone who has COVID-19 symptoms?  If the answer is yes, ensure you wear a mask and practice good hand and respiratory hygiene.  DO NOT come to the clinic if you have symptoms.

3)  Have you been in contact in the last 14 days with a person confirmed to have COVID-19 or who is on self-isolation?  Follow the guidelines of the Government of Prince Edward Island.

4)  If you are vaccinated, have you travelled outside of the Atlantic Provinces in the last 8 days?  Follow the guidelines of the Government of Prince Edward Island.  If you are required to be isolating, please do not come to the clinic.

5)  If you are unvaccinated, have you traveled outside of PEI in the last 8 days? Follow the guidelines of the Government of Prince Edward Island.  If you are required to be isolating, please do not come to the clinic.

Accessibility Services invites all Faculty to attend our session, “Executive Functions” on Monday September 13th from 1:00-2:30 pm. This webinar will provide an overview of executive functions, what they look like in action, and supports and strategies. Specifically, the session will cover, Prioritizing and Goal Selection; Planning and Organizing; Working Memory; Attention and Flexibility; Self-Regulation; Inhibition and Initiation; Execution and Goal Attainment.

To sign up for this session please complete this form.

After submitting the form you will be sent an Outlook Calendar Invite to join this session.

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.