Campus Notices
Central Printing will be closed Friday, September 1. If you have any questions, please contact Wendy Henderson at 902-566-0558 or whenderson@upei.ca.
The Office of the Registrar will be open on Saturday, September 2 -- Welcome Day -- from 9:00 am-12:00 pm.
Office staff will be on hand to assist students with registration, take tuition payments, and answer any admission questions.
We look forward to the start of a new academic year,
Donna Sutton
Registrar
dsutton@upei.ca
The UPEI Student Union will be closed on Thursday, August 31 for Staff Orientation and will re-open Friday, September 1 at 9:00 am. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Small group training offers personalized sessions with a focus on individual progression and skill development. Sessions are held two times per week for six weeks (12 sessions). You can join a group or create your own! For more information, click here.
We still have over twenty-five UPEI employee fitness training grants left for small group training or specialty fitness programs. Grants are available for current UPEI staff or faculty. One grant per Academic Year/person (September 2017 - April 2018). Applicants on a first come, first serve basis.
Complete a Personal Training Subsidy Application and send it via email to Angela Marchbank, Fitness & Wellness Coordinator at amarchbank@upei.ca.
UPEI’s Department of Human Resources has moved most of its information and resources on upei.ca to a site in the myUPEI portal. The portal site will create a more interactive and user-friendly environment for faculty and staff, with simplified content and easier access to the services offered by the HR department. Faculty and staff can login directly to myUPEI and the HR site through this link: https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/HR/
Highlights of the HR portal site include:
• a comprehensive FAQ section
• an expanded service section
• easier access to HR forms
Employment opportunities, retirees’ information, and general information will remain on upei.ca/hr.
The UPEI Office of Recruitment and International Relations wishes to extend an invitation to the campus community from Global Affairs Canada to a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) town hall meeting. Hosted by the Honourable Andrew Leslie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada-U.S. Relations), the town hall meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Rodd Royalty Hotel, Crowbush Room, 14 Capital Drive, Charlottetown. For more information, view the full event listing.
The Honourable Andrew Leslie will also be giving the keynote address at the Palmer Conference on Public Sector Leadership, taking place August 29-31 on the UPEI campus.
The Office of the Registrar will be open on Saturday, September 2 -- Welcome Day -- from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Office staff will be on hand to assist students with registration, take tuition payments, and answer any admission questions.
We look forward to the start of a new academic year,
Donna Sutton
Registrar
dsutton@upei.ca
The Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture program explicitly connects the communication skills and leadership training of a Liberal Arts education to successful post-graduation employment. This program is defined by its focus on the transferability of the written, oral and visual communication skills, the critical thinking, and the cultural awareness acquired during a Liberal Arts education to the world beyond academia. Technical skills, work-integrated learning (internships, cooperatives, workplace-generated projects), and career- related mentoring are key components of its design.
All are welcome!
UPEI employees and retirees can purchase a "Sports Centre/Fitness Centre" 1-year memberships for $300 + hst. Price works out to $6.63 per week, 0.95 cents per day. Membership includes: access to fitness centre, indoor/outdoor track, gymnasium, squash courts, membership fitness classes and access to fit zone room.
To register, please visit Panther Central in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre—payroll deduction available!
IT Systems and Services (ITSS) has completed the migration of the file systems and printers from Novell to Microsoft. Below is a summary of some of the items that may apply to faculty and staff:
File systems (a.k.a. H, P, Q etc. drives): Most drive letters will remain unchanged. Drives P, G, H, J and K will not change. However, Q drives will change to L. If any issues arise with these drives please contact ITSS for assistance. Please reboot your computer before calling ITSS, as this remedies most issues.
Net Storage (a.k.a. web-based access to H and other drives): At this time there is no direct replacement for Net Storage. There are a number of other options to access your files including VPN (for access off campus), regular mapping of drives , Google Docs, and MyUPEI. Please contact ITSS and we will help you to choose the best option that suits your needs.
Printing: The printing migration will be relatively seamless; departmental printers will continue to function normally. More details will be provided as we migrate each department.
The Central Printing office will be closed Friday, September 1. Any questions may be directed to Wendy Henderson at whenderson@upei.ca.
Orange Shirt Day occurs annually at the end of each September, the time of year when Indigenous children were taken away from their homes and put into residential schools. This year on September 29, 2017, the Faculty of Education is encouraging all students, staff, and faculty to wear orange as an annual opportunity to discuss aspects of residential schools, and to continue discussions year-round.
Everyone has the opportunity to order a t-shirt and join this important movement. The cost of each t-shirt is $10.00 and can be ordered in sizes XXS to XXL. If you are interested in ordering a t-shirt, please let us know in order to coordinate your order. The deadline to order is September 6, 2017.
Please email Anja Salijevic at asalijevic@upei.ca to place your order and state the quantity and t-shirt size(s) in your email.
Thank you for your support in bringing awareness to Orange Shirt Day we hope that many of you will participate in wearing orange!
The UPEI Student Union will be closed on Thursday, August 31 for Staff Orientation and will re-open Friday, September 1 at 9:00 am. Sorry for any inconvenience!
NEW "Cycle n' Barre" class with Bernadette Currie. The class combines the cardio of indoor cycling (30 min) with upper body and core Barre (15 min). Cycle Fit classes with Tracey (begin September 14), Brittany (begin Sept. 18) and Bernadette (begin September 5) are for everyone from beginner to advanced. This is a perfect cardio challenge using various speeds and resistance levels.
For more details please click here.
Fall Intramural schedule: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Soccer, Ultimate Frisbee and Volleyball begin the week of September 10. For program dates and times, please click here.
Programs are FREE for full-time UPEI students and Sports Centre/Fitness Centre members. Non-members fee $25+hst/person/sport.
The UPEI Office of Recruitment and International Relations wishes to extend an invitation to the campus community from Global Affairs Canada to a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) town hall meeting. Hosted by the Honourable Andrew Leslie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada-U.S. Relations), the town hall meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Rodd Royalty Hotel, Crowbush Room, 14 Capital Drive, Charlottetown. For more information, view the full event listing.
The Honourable Andrew Leslie will also be giving the keynote address at the Palmer Conference on Public Leadership, taking place August 29-31 on the UPEI campus.
UPEI’s Department of Human Resources has moved most of its information and resources on upei.ca to a site in the myUPEI portal.
The portal site will create a more interactive and user-friendly environment for faculty and staff, with simplified content and easier access to the services offered by the HR department. Faculty and staff can login directly to myUPEI and the HR site through this link: https://portal.upei.ca/facultystaff/administrativeservices/HR/
Highlights of the HR portal site include:
• a comprehensive FAQ section
• an expanded service section
• easier access to HR forms
Employment opportunities, retirees’ information, and general information will remain on upei.ca/hr.
The Don and Marion McDougall Hall reserved parking lot and the perimeter road from the University Avenue entrance to the McDougall Hall reserved parking lot will be open Friday, August 25, 2017. The contractor will be on site during the early evening of Friday, August 25 to place a skim coat of asphalt over the entrance and exit areas of the parking lot gate. This will not have any impact on users of the parking lot.
The seven (7) new parking stalls in the Small Animal Hospital parking lot will also be open on Friday, August 25.
The contractor is currently working on repairing and patching several areas of existing asphalt around campus.
This schedule is weather dependent and could change; updates will be provided if changes occur. While the contractor has been instructed that the work should be executed with the least possible disruption to the campus community, a certain amount is inevitable. Your patience and understanding is appreciated as we proceed with these projects.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at 902-566-6034 or jmacphail@upei.ca.
Join us August 30, from 10:00 am to noon in the Faculty Lounge of SDU Main Building for the launch of UPEI's Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program.
The Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture program explicitly connects the communication skills and leadership training of a Liberal Arts education to successful post-graduation employment. This program is defined by its focus on the transferability of the written, oral and visual communication skills, the critical thinking, and the cultural awareness acquired during a Liberal Arts education to the world beyond academia. Technical skills, work-integrated learning (internships, cooperatives, workplace-generated projects), and career- related mentoring are key components of its design.
All are welcome!
