Campus Notices
One of UPEI Facilities Management's strategic goals is to enhance customer service. Your feedback and suggestions are important to us and we want to hear from you on how we are doing.
We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes from your busy day and complete the online Facilities Management Customer Satisfaction Survey by February 1, 2018 to provide us with your current level of satisfaction and identify what we need to focus on in the upcoming year. Survey results will also allow us to measure our success as we implement customer service improvement objectives.
Here is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/upei_facilities
Regards,
Greg Clayton
Director of UPEI Facilities Management
Announcing a new course-based Master's in Island Tourism at UPEI, starting in August 2018. This is your opportunity to obtain a graduate degree in the expanding field of tourism, applied specifically to islands. Using primarily online courses for your convenience, this two-year program incorporates two work-study courses working directly with tourism organizations.
Scholarships and bursaries are available. Learn more about this exciting new degree program at two information sessions on Thursday, January 25, from 3:00 to 4:00 pm and again from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, in Rm. 243 Don and Marion McDougall Hall. For more information, contact the Program Coordinator at mais@upei.ca or 902-620-5013.
Join Jaclyn Borden, Learning Strategist, Accessibility Services, as she presents a “How-to..” for teaching students affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This presentation will give a brief overview of ASD and its impact on students' learning and success. It will provide practical tips for supporting the learning of students with ASD in different classroom scenarios such as class participation, group work, and assessments.
This session will take place on January 31 at 1:00 pm in SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge (Rm 201). Questions may be directed to Gerald Wandio, fdo@upei.ca.
All are welcome!
We are pleased to offer three different workshops facilitated by ACENET. Participants will need to bring their own laptop to the workshop(s). For a complete description of the workshops and to register, CLICK HERE.
- Workshop 1: Version Control With Git, 20 February, 8:30-11:45 am
- Workshop 2: SQL Databases With Python, 20 February, 12:30-4:30 pm
- Workshop 3: R for Reproducible Science, (two-day session) 21 February, 8:30-4:30 pm and 22 February, 8:30-4:30 pm
All sesions will take place in Room 329, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
If you have any questions, please email dmoses@upei.ca.
Dr. Carolyn Peach Brown, UPEI Environmental Studies, will present “Exploring landowners’ willingness to protect Species at Risk in Prince Edward Island”.
Dr. Brown’s talk will take place on Friday, January 26 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Rm 204.
All are welcome!
Join the campus community for 2018's first Soup for the Soul; warm-up with some Chicken and Rice soup or Lentil Soup as the vegetarian option.
This year we are connecting with the Bell Let's Talk initiative to amplify our efforts aimed at promoting healthy eating and mental health awareness! Also connecting with Soup for the Soul is Kettle Black, a local student-run business that will provide the chef and food for this event on January 31 from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in the UPEI Chaplaincy Centre.
View full details on the UPEI Events Calendar!
Join us in January for Robertson Library Movie Talks. Each week will highlight a timely movie available through the Library’s video collections. There will be a discussion after each movie led by an interdisciplinary panel of UPEI faculty, staff, students, and community members.
Our next documentary, UnSlut: A Documentary Film, “features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming, including the family and friends of Rehtaeh Parsons”, and will be presented on Monday, January 29, Robertson Library LINC, Room 265, 7:00-9:00 pm. The panelists for UnSlut: A Documentary Film are Ann Braithwaite, PhD and Nia Phillips, PhD.
Information on the UnSlut Project is available here. Popcorn will be provided. Bring your lidded, non-alcoholic drink. Free admission. Everyone is welcome!
View full details on the UPEI Events Calendar!
Dr. Grant McSorley, assistant professor at the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering, will present "The Extended Sapphire Model as a Framework for Product Lifecycle Management" as part of the Winter 2018 SSDE Graduate Seminar Series.
Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.
All are welcome!
Sign up to receive text notifications for university/storm closures and emergencies on UPEI Emergency Alert-- and you'll have a chance to win one of four $100 gift certificates for the UPEI Bookstore. There are two ways to enter:
- Visit upei.ca/alert for instructions on how to login, update your profile, and opt-in to receive texts, or read the UPEI Emergency Alert instruction guide
- Visit the UPEI Emergency Alert booth from 12 noon - 2 pm at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (January 22-26) and Robertson Library (January 29-February 2) for a streamlined way to update your profile and opt-in to receive texts.
Contest closes February 2, 2018 at midnight, so be sure to update your profile before then to be included in the draw. For more information on UPEI Emergency Alert, visit upei.ca/alert or if you have questions about it or the contest, email Mark Pharand, Manager, Security Services.
Please join us for our first Theology on Tap of 2018! Dr. David Sabapathy will speak on “The Unexamined Life of Public Health.” Presented by the SDU Institute of Christianity and Culture, 25 January 2018, at 7:00 pm in the Pourhouse at 189 Great George Street.
All are welcome!
One of UPEI Facilities Management's strategic goals is to enhance customer service. Your feedback and suggestions are important to us and we want to hear from you on how we are doing.
We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes from your busy day and complete the online Facilities Management Customer Satisfaction Survey by February 1, 2018 to provide us with your current level of satisfaction and identify what we need to focus on in the upcoming year. Survey results will also allow us to measure our success as we implement customer service improvement objectives.
Here is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/upei_facilities
Regards,
Greg Clayton
Director of UPEI Facilities Management
Staff and faculty are invited to join the UPEI Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams for Bell Let’s Talk Night, Saturday, January 27. The Panthers are hosting Cape Breton University. The women’s game starts at 6:00 pm. The men tip off at 8:00 pm.
Staff and faculty are entitled to two free tickets to Saturday’s game. Pick them up at Panther Central this week, or contact Leigh Read at lread@upei.ca.
Help us help others join the conversation about mental health.
Go Panthers Go!
Dr. Grant McSorley, assistant professor at the UPEI School of Sustainable Design Engineering, will present "The Extended Sapphire Model as a Framework for Product Lifecycle Management" as part of the Winter 2018 SSDE Graduate Seminar Series.
Click here to view full details on the UPEI Events Calendar.
All are welcome!
Announcing a new course-based Master's in Island Tourism at UPEI, starting in August 2018. This is your opportunity to obtain a graduate degree in the expanding field of tourism, applied specifically to islands. Using primarily online courses for your convenience, this two-year program incorporates two work-study courses working directly with tourism organizations.
Scholarships and bursaries are available. Learn more about this exciting new degree program at two information sessions on Thursday, January 25, from 3:00 to 4:00 pm and again from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, in Rm. 243 Don and Marion McDougall Hall. For more information, contact the Program Coordinator at mais@upei.ca or 902-620-5013.
As an instructor, you’ve set up a syllabus that clearly explains your expectations for where students will end up. Then you set them on the journey to that destination. However, some will get off track along the way. The information you provide, how you provide it and when you provide it will be key to getting them back on the right path or in keeping them on the right path.
In this workshop, offered by the E-Learning Office, instructors will learn strategies for the use of feedback and rubrics that they can use to accompany student assessments. You can attend on either February 8th from 1:00 to 2:00 pm or on March 5th from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. Location is Room 265, Robertson Library. REGISTER
Please join us for a Brown-Bag Lunch on Wednesday, January 24 from 11:30-12:30 in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge. Dr. Debbie MacLellan will lead a discussion on the phenomenon of the "helicopter professor".
Click here to view full details on UPEI's Event Calendar.
All are welcome to join the discussion!
The Faculty Development Office is offering two afternoon workshops and consultations for anyone interested in creating or updating a teaching dossier: for promotion, tenure, or teaching awards. The workshops will be facilitated by Shannon Murray, and participants will have the opportunity for individual consultations in the weeks after the workshops. The two sessions are:
- Introducing the Teaching Dossier (2:30-4:00, February 2 – location TBA)
After a brief introduction to the history and purpose of a teaching dossier, a panel of colleagues experienced in working with teaching dossiers will share their advice about what to do and what to avoid. The rest of the session will look at the requirements and the options for documenting your teaching practice.
- Starting a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (2:30-4:00, February 9 – location TBA)
A statement of teaching philosophy is an essential opening for most teaching dossiers: and it signals the central beliefs and practices that the rest of the dossier will demonstrate. This workshop will take participants through a variety of strategies for crafting an effective statement, looking at examples from across disciplines. Participants will leave with a sound basic structure for their STPs.
You may attend either or both, but please register with Gerald Wandio (fdo@upei.ca) by January 26.
Faculty, staff, students and community leaders, who are interested in helping with SHAD UPEI are invited to attend an information session on January 24, 9:30-10:20 am in the School of Sustainable Design Engineering - Room 212 (CAD Lab). Commitments can be small or large: delivering a seminar on a relevant topic that you’re passionate about; leading a workshop or tour; mentoring the students on their DE projects for a few hours over the course of the program; or living in residence with the students as a paid member of the SHAD team.
If you’re interested in finding out more about the opportunities, please join us for an information session, or contact Kaaren May, Program Co-Director, at kmay@upei.ca. You could also visit upei.ca/shad for the latest updates.
Click here to view full event listing.
Learn about the student awards, scholarships, and financial bursaries available through UPEI this semester at 12:30 pm and at 5:00 pm (click either timeslot to view full event details).
All are welcome!
