To help launch our new strategic plan, we hope you will join us at the town hall:

• Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, at 2:30 pm
• Performing Arts Centre and Residence amphitheatre (PAC 121S). 

If you are unable to attend in-person, you can join us via this Teams link.

The UPEISU Winter Clothing Drive is happening on Tuesday, November 25, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre!

Students can select what they need to stay warm during the colder months, including winter jackets, sweaters, scarves, gloves, and more. 

We are also putting a call out to our campus community. If you are able, please consider donating gently used winter items to the UPEISU Office between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm until Friday, November 21.

Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Please be advised that parking will not be available at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market from Saturday, November 22 at 3:00 pm until Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 pm.

Any vehicles parked on the premises during this time will be towed at the owner’s expense. This closure is necessary to complete scheduled maintenance work in the parking lot.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The UPEI Writing Centre (Robertson Library 274) will close for the exam period and the holidays at 2 pm on Thursday, December 4. 

We still have appointments available. To book, please visit https://upei.mywconline.com/

Join Us for the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Panel x Mixer!

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) invites you to celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on Wednesday, November 19 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Schurman Market Square.

This event aims to bring together students, community members, and business leaders to recognize and celebrate the achievements of women professionals and entrepreneurs across Prince Edward Island.

The evening will begin with a panel discussion featuring:

• Katie Arsenault – Venture Capital Investor
• Natalie Haddad – Owner of Cordial Picnics
• Melanie Wildman – Founder & CEO at Nutracelle

Following the panel, connect with fellow attendees during a networking mixer. This is a great opportunity to exchange ideas, build relationships, and be inspired by the vibrant entrepreneurial community on PEI. Come celebrate innovation, leadership, and the power of women in business. Everyone is welcome!

To attend the PanelxMixer, please register here.

The Master of Arts in Island Studies program invites you to attend the thesis defence for Padmini Dambugolla's research entitled "Examining the role of social networks, collaboration, and islandness in the entrepreneurial success of businesswomen at the Charlottetown Farmers' Market." Everyone is welcome!

Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10:00 am

Memorial Hall, Room 104

The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications, including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments, is Friday, November 28, 2025. These applications will be reviewed at the December 18 meeting.

All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the UPEI researcher portal. Information about the researcher portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms.

Please contact the Research Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the researcher portal, or about the biosafety application, review, and approval process.

The third meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). To view the 2025-2026 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here. (Posted one week before the meeting)

All meetings are open to members of the University community, although certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees) may require the Senate to go into a closed session. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair. 

For logistical purposes, members of the UPEI community who wish to attend the open session of a UPEI Senate meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person. 

What if selling wasn’t about pitching, but about asking the right questions at the right time? In this talk, students will explore proven sales methodologies, learn how to design a prospecting process, and discover how curiosity can be the most powerful tool in building lasting business relationships. The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our biweekly speaker series. We are pleased to have Jonny Stevens, Fractional Chief Growth Officer of Growth Champions Consulting, joining us to talk about the art of selling!  

More about the speaker: Dr. Jonny Stevens is a transformational leader specializing in business growth and change management, now driving growth for entrepreneurs and organizations through Growth Champions Consulting. Based in Charlottetown, PEI, and serving clients across Canada, Jonny has a proven track record of scaling businesses across diverse sectors, including national marketing agencies, member associations, AI companies, and global professional services firms.

Interested in attending the session? Sign up here.

Monday November 24, 2025, 12:00 pm, Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, 201 Robertson Library

To help launch our new strategic plan, we hope you will join us at the town hall:

• Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, at 2:30 pm
• Performing Arts Centre and Residence amphitheatre (PAC 121S). 

If you are unable to attend in-person, you can join us via this Teams link.

The UPEISU Winter Clothing Drive is happening on Tuesday, November 25, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre!

Students can select what they need to stay warm during the colder months, including winter jackets, sweaters, scarves, gloves, and more. 

We are also putting a call out to our campus community. If you are able, please consider donating gently used winter items to the UPEISU Office between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm until Friday, November 21.

Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Please be advised that parking will not be available at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market from Saturday, November 22 at 3:00 pm until Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 pm.

Any vehicles parked on the premises during this time will be towed at the owner’s expense. This closure is necessary to complete scheduled maintenance work in the parking lot.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Current UPEI undergraduate students are invited to learn more about studying at the graduate level. This event, presented by the Faculties of Arts and Graduate Studies, aims to demystify graduate studies, and feature UPEI graduate programs which may be of interest to students of the Faculty of Arts. Students from other faculties are welcome to attend, though this event will have an Arts focus.

The event will feature:
11:00-11:30-  A panel moderated by Dr. Cinthya Guzman of UPEI faculty (Arts-based) and staff members sharing their first hand experiences and advice about graduate studies
11:30-12:00- Info Tables and opportunity for one-on-one chats with representatives of UPEI's graduate programs, graduate admissions, scholarships and awards plus faculty members and current graduate students

Featured programs:

• Masters of Arts in Island Studies
• Doctor of Psychology
• Master of Business Administration in Global Leadership
• Master of Education in Leadership in Learning (Bachelor of Education)
• Master of Cleantech Leadership and Transformation

There will be 2 prize draws:

1. For students who pre-register: draw for the value of an undergraduate course (value: up to $763) - winner must be present at the time of the draw to win
2. For all student attendees: draw for a UPEI Grad Studies Prize Pack - winner must be present at the time of draw to win

To register: Registration form - Grad School: More Possible Than You Think!
Drop-in attendees are also welcome. Light refreshments provided.

The UPEI Writing Centre (Robertson Library 274) will close for the exam period and the holidays at 2 pm on Thursday, December 4. 

We still have appointments available. To book, please visit https://upei.mywconline.com/

Help make the 2025-2026 Annual Fund a huge success!

Donations to the UPEI and AVC Annual Fund Campaigns help ensure students have the tools and supports they need.

Annual gifts from alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of UPEI which are received and spent in the same year, go to work immediately to support the best of UPEI by:

• Attracting and supporting top notch students with increased scholarships and student engagement programming.
• Improving student access and exposure to experiential learning, global education, research and career opportunities.
• Encouraging collaboration, innovation, and partnerships with communities and industries island-wide and around the world.

Ways to Give

• For employee payroll deductions, please contact Tammy Pigott, Gift Processor at tpigott@upei.ca
• Online
• By Mail: UPEI Annual Fund, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3
• Telephone: 902-894-2888 
• In Person: 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown

Join Us for the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Panel x Mixer!

The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) invites you to celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on Wednesday, November 19 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Schurman Market Square.

This event aims to bring together students, community members, and business leaders to recognize and celebrate the achievements of women professionals and entrepreneurs across Prince Edward Island.

The evening will begin with a panel discussion featuring:

• Katie Arsenault – Venture Capital Investor
• Natalie Haddad – Owner of Cordial Picnics
• Melanie Wildman – Founder & CEO at Nutracelle

Following the panel, connect with fellow attendees during a networking mixer. This is a great opportunity to exchange ideas, build relationships, and be inspired by the vibrant entrepreneurial community on PEI. Come celebrate innovation, leadership, and the power of women in business. Everyone is welcome!

To attend the PanelxMixer, please register here.

The Healthy Campus Committee invites all students, faculty, and staff to attend the annual Self-Care Fair — a celebration of wellness, balance, and community. Explore campus and community resources that support physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Enjoy informative booths featuring handouts, giveaways, and engaging wellness activities. Don’t miss the interactive fitness and health testing at the UPEI Kinesiology Program booth, where you can test your grip strength, balance, and flexibility.

Complimentary food, door prizes, and a prize spin wheel will also be available.  Join us to learn, connect, and celebrate self-care at UPEI!

Donations of non-perishable food will also be accepted in support of the UPEI Campus Food Bank.

As part of the day’s wellness activities, enjoy Soup for the Soul at the Chaplaincy Centre from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Services.

The Island Lecture Series presents a talk by Kate MacQuarrie, “The Wild Side of PEI." The Island Lecture Series will be held on November 18, 2025, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building Room 201, University of Prince Edward Island. 

Prince Edward Island is known as the 'million-acre farm' and 'Canada's food island', but there is so much more to this province than farming and fishing! In this illustrated presentation, Kate MacQuarrie will take you on a tour of some of PEI's best remaining natural landscapes. From iconic coastal sand dunes and red sandstone cliffs to wetlands, ancient peat bogs, and old growth forests, this presentation highlights the wild side of Canada's smallest province. No matter how well you know PEI, you’ll something new and interesting from this talk.

Kate MacQuarrie is an award-winning botanist, naturalist, and author with more than 30 years’ experience working with the plants, wildlife, and natural history of PEI. In addition to being PEI’s Director of Forests, Fish, and Wildlife, she runs PEI Untamed, a business dedicated to helping people learn, explore, and reconnect with the natural world around them. Kate has conducted research in PEI’s upland hardwood forests and coastal sand dunes, found plants not previously known to exist on PEI, published papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and has just published her first book, Wild Foods of Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press. She is currently working on another book due out Fall 2026.

The lecture is free, and all are welcome. For more information, contact Bren Simmers at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.

We are pleased to introduce UPEI’s new Exit Interview program, developed as part of the UPEI Action Plan: 

• 3.1.6.1: Develop a process to offer exit interviews for departing employees, and 
• 3.1.6.2: Develop a process to share aggregate information learned from exit interviews in confidential and appropriate ways. 

An exit interview is a voluntary opportunity for employees who are leaving UPEI or moving to a new department to share feedback about their work experience. This helps us better understand the employee experience and identify opportunities to strengthen our workplace. 

More information is available on the Human Resources SharePoint page, including: 

• The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) outlining eligibility and reporting 
• A sample questionnaire 

If you have any questions about this process, please contact the Employee Experience & Development Team in Human Resources at hrengage@upei.ca

What if selling wasn’t about pitching, but about asking the right questions at the right time? In this talk, students will explore proven sales methodologies, learn how to design a prospecting process, and discover how curiosity can be the most powerful tool in building lasting business relationships. The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our biweekly speaker series. We are pleased to have Jonny Stevens, Fractional Chief Growth Officer of Growth Champions Consulting, joining us to talk about the art of selling!  

More about the speaker: Dr. Jonny Stevens is a transformational leader specializing in business growth and change management, now driving growth for entrepreneurs and organizations through Growth Champions Consulting. Based in Charlottetown, PEI, and serving clients across Canada, Jonny has a proven track record of scaling businesses across diverse sectors, including national marketing agencies, member associations, AI companies, and global professional services firms.

Interested in attending the session? Sign up here.

Monday November 24, 2025, 12:00 pm, Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, 201 Robertson Library