Campus Notices
Don't miss AVC’s Open House on Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is something for everyone--the parade of dogs, dressing like a surgeon, different animals to see, dress up like a surgeon, Teddy Bear Clinic, and much more.
Scheduled demonstrations:
11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.: Falconry (Lecture Theatre B)
11:30 a.m.: Pet First Aid (Lecture Theatre A)
12 noon: Dog Parade (outside, to left of AVC's main entrance)
12:15 p.m.: Clicker Training (Polar Bear Lounge)
12:45 p.m.: Nail Trimming (Polar Bear Lounge)
The UPEI Student Affairs boardroom in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre will be available on Thursday, September 22 as a 'check-in spot' for students who want to gather with other people as a result of yesterday's closure and potential threat to our province. Staff will be on hand to facilitate conversation and ease anxiety. Counsellors will continue to see students who have booked appointments, but will free up time to see students who are in need of further support.
Beginning October 3, 2016
Financial management skills are critical for any manager, but the role can often be challenging for those with no previous training. The Financial Management Certificate is designed to provide participants with greater confidence in understanding their business/organization’s financial picture and using that information to make sound decisions.The following workshops will be delivered:
- Introduction to Financial Management
- Cost and Managerial Accounting and Budgeting
- Financial Projections and Financial Modeling Techniques
- Financing and Raising Capital
- Fiscal Controls and Fraud Prevention
- Financial Decision Making
Starting Monday, September 26, 2016 the hours of operation for the Courtyard Cafe and Samuel's Cafe will be changing.
Located in the WA Murphy Student Centre, The Courtyard Cafe (Tim Hortons) hours of operation are as follows:
Monday to Thursday = 7:30 am to 9:00 pm
Friday = 7:30 am to 3:00 pm
Saturday = Closed
Sunday = 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Located in the Robertson Library, Samuel's Cafe hours of operation are as follows:
Monday to Thursday: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Friday = 8:00 am to 3:00 pm
Saturday = Closed
Sunday = Closed
Thank you,
Chartwells Education Dining Services and UPEI Ancillary Services
Counselling Services through Student Affairs & the Sexual Assault and Violence Education (SAVE) Group will be offering Bystander Intervention Training (Bringing in the Bystander) this semester.
Bringing in the Bystander is a workshop that uses a community of responsibility model to teach negative bystanders how to intervene safely and effectively in cases where sexual assault may be occurring or where there may be a risk. Its main message is that “Everyone in the community has a role to play in ending sexual violence.” This prevention program emphasizes a bystander intervention approach and assumes that everyone has a role to play in ending sexual violence. To date UPEI has trained nearly 500 people!
There is no costs related to taking this training, and all materials are supplied to the participants free of charge!
If you have a group on campus (class, department, and/or staff/faculty/students etc.) that would like to take the training please contact saworkshops@upei.ca
To sign up individually please fill out this form: http://goo.gl/forms/UT22n5sUtx
If you have any questions or for more information please contact saworkshops@upei.ca
Please note: an earlier version of this Campus Notice included an incorrect date
UPEI’s UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability and the UPEI Climate Research Lab will co-host a public forum on climate change adaptations and islands. The forum begins at 7 pm on Thursday, September 22 in the Florence Simmons Performance Hall on the Prince of Wales Campus of Holland College. Information gathered at the forum will be become part of a statement delivered at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change this November in Morocco and will inform public policy in local, national, and international jurisdictions.
Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino, co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability, will prime the forum by presenting a summary of a two-day international symposium on small island resilience to climate change. “Building Small Island Resilience to Global Climate Change: An International Symposium” brings together 15 people from around the world to discuss how residents of small islands and coastal jurisdictions can build on their strengths and resourcefulness to respond to the consequences of climate change. The focus is on four areas: food security, renewable energy, innovation, and cultural heritage. Also hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability and the UPEI Climate Research Lab, the symposium is funded in part by the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency (ACOA).
Symposium speakers include climate and island studies experts who who will bring their unique knowledge and skills to the table. They come from Australia, Vanuatu, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Gotland, Montreal, Toronto, St. John’s, Tignish, Lennox Island, and Charlottetown. Together with an invited group of engaged audience participants, the symposium addresses the pressing issue of climate change and small islands in an action-oriented and policy-focused series of dialogues that will provide public policy lessons for other jurisdictions.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, contact iis@upei.ca or 902-894-2881.
This Monday, like every Monday, there's a new article on the SCENT blog at http://projects.upei.ca/scent/ for you to read and comment on. This week's article is entitled "It's Time to Ditch our Deadlines," and it considers how structures like deadlines presume "who" is in the classroom and might inadvertently result in the exclusion of many students. Head on over to the site, read the article, and have your say!
Now in its sixth year, the UPEI Multicultural Choir and Song Circle invites all members of the UPEI community (students, staff, faculty) to its first session of the new term, this Tuesday, September 20. This is a non-audition singing group, that shares songs from many cultures found within and outside Canada (e.g., Celtic, Nigerian, Ukrainian, Kenyan, Finnish, Maltese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, French and many more). Bring your voice and if you would like, bring a song to suggest or share in a relaxed and fun setting. The group aims to provide a great break from the usual routine, while bringing people together from many backgrounds, singing together in harmony and in one voice.
We welcome special guest, Jorge Peña Acosta, a professional singer/guitarist from Cuba, who will perform and share songs during our first session.
When: 4:30-5:30 pm every Tuesday, beginning September 20, 2016
Location: Basement of the Robertson Library building. There is a stairway off the concourse--do not go into the library itself--just go down the stairs, turn left, and you are there. The location is also accessible via an elevator.
For further information contact Annabel Cohen at acohen@upei.ca or 902-628-4325, or Hailey Arsenault at airs@upei.ca or 902-566-6023.
All are welcome! We look forward to seeing you.
UPEI’s UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability and the UPEI Climate Research Lab will co-host a public forum on climate change adaptations and islands. The forum begins at 7 pm on Thursday, September 23 in the Florence Simmons Performance Hall on the Prince of Wales Campus of Holland College. Information gathered at the forum will be become part of a statement delivered at the 22ndsession of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change this November in Morocco.
Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino, co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability, will prime the forum by presenting a summary of a two-day international symposium on small island resilience to climate change. The symposium brings together 15 people from around the world to discuss how residents of small islands and coastal jurisdictions can build on their strengths and resourcefulness to respond to the consequences of climate change. The focus is on four areas: food security, renewable energy, innovation, and cultural heritage. Hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability and the UPEI Climate Research Lab, the symposium is funded in part by ACOA and the Province of Prince Edward Island.
Admission to the public forum is free and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, contact iis@upei.ca or 902-894-2881.
On Thursday, September 15 at Red Shores the UPEI Panthers will Kickoff 2016/2017. All UPEI Alumni, Corporate Partners, Season Ticket Holders and Panther Fans are invited to attend!
The evening begins at 5:00 pm in the Grand Stand with a Welcome by Athletic Director Chris Huggan followed by Panther Coaches providing season previews.
Afterwards, there will be a reception with all student-athletes in attendance. The fun continues into the evenings Race Card with Panthers Ambassadors matched up with horses in Races two and three.
On Friday Night the Men's/Women's Soccer Home Openers vs Acadia are at the Cornwall Terry Fox Complex, game times 5:00 / 7:15 pm.
Master of Science (MSc) Thesis Defence
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 3:00 to 5:00pm
HSB 105
The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Sami Alalawi, Masters student from the Department of Chemistry, will be defending his thesis entitled, "Design and Characterization of Polyazomethine and Polyazomethine Containing Metals Conducting polymers" on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 3:00pm
Location: Room 105, Health Sciences Building, UPEI Campus.
The deadline for Animal Care Protocol Submissions -- new, renewal, or amendment -- is Friday, October 7 for the October meeting.
Ensure you always…
· Download the current forms from http://www.upei.ca/research/
· Use the most current Adobe Reader to complete forms and only current forms will be accepted.
Both the signed hard copy and electronic protocol submission must be submitted by the deadline date.
· Submit one copy of original protocol with signature to AVC - North Annex, Biomedical Sciences Dept., Rm 2302
· Submit an electronic copy to animalcare@upei.ca
Those protocols received after the deadline will be reviewed the following month.
The Committee requires at least one month for processing applications.
For more information, please contact Sherri Pineau, ACC Admin. Assistant @ 902-566-0973.
SCENT (Senate Committee on the Enhancement of Teaching) is back and ready for the Fall semester with a new theme “What is university for?” To explore this question our articles for the semester focus on four interrelated themes: the relationship between professors and students; learning and/or/vs assessment, grading, and credentialing; the role of the syllabus; and the changing university.
While an apparently simple question, considering “what is university for?” raises a number of complex issues and points to a range of tensions that currently affect our work as academic staff at this, or any, university. Clearly this question will be answered very differently by different audiences for it: faculty, students, administrators, parents, politicians, the broader community. Contemplating this question focuses our attention on both micro-moments of our academic lives (the syllabus, grading) and larger contexts within which we operate (university policies, life after graduation)--all of which force us to (re)consider what teaching is and does. This semester’s SCENT blog offers up a number of previously published short articles that range across these and other issues, raising provocative questions, challenging some of our taken-for-granted or simply unquestioned notions of what we do everyday, and always asking us to think more complexly about “what university is for”--and the consequences of how any of us answer that question.
SCENT’s first blog post is titled “Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring”. This article is as provocative as the title suggests. It focuses on learning vs satisfaction and circles around SCENT’s theme for Fall semester “What is university for?” Find this short article and a new blog post each week at projects.upei.ca/scent. We are looking forward to lots of comments and discussion!
For more information please contact Ann Braithwaite, Chair of SCENT, at abraithwaite@upei.ca or Gerald Wandio, Coordinator of the FDO, at gwandio@upei.ca.
The UPEI Student Union would like your feedback on the WA Murphy Student Centre as we are looking at doing some updates to the bulding. Click on the following link to fill out the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/
The Fall Seminar Series in Environmental Sciences & Human Biology starts this Friday, September 16th, 12:30 PM, Duffy Science Centre, Room 204. It is hosted by the UPEI Biology Department and everyone is welcome! Coffee and treats provided.
On Sept 16, Dr. Guy Perry will present “The Daughters of Mercury: Sex, genes and environment in the noise of medicine and nature.”
Upcoming seminars in the series:
On Sept 30, 2 graduate students will present their work.
* Derek Ellis (PhD-c), “Development of PEI’s climate change adaptation strategy: A comparison and evaluation of local and international approaches.”
*Hannah Gehrels (MSc-c), “Habitat mediated predation: How habitat structure affects green crab (Carcinus maenas) predation rates.”
Electronic T4 Slips
Have you signed up to receive your electronic T4 slip? If you completed the consent form for a previous tax year (since 2014), you will automatically receive your 2016 tax slip electronically. There is no need to complete the consent form again. New consents must be received no later than January 31, 2017.
Online tax slips will be available, through Campus Login, to current and former employees, who received taxable earnings or benefits in 2016. Online T4s are official tax slips accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). However, CRA requires employees to give their consent in order to access their tax slips electronically. Your consent will be valid for all subsequent tax years. New employees can grant consent for online T4s after they have received their first pay cheque.
Employees who do not provide consent will have their 2016 T4s mailed to the address on file no later than February 28, 2017. Electronic T4s will be available sooner than the printed versions due to a lesser processing time.
The consent form can be accessed through Campus Login:
https://secure.upei.ca/cls/login.html. The consent form must be completed by January 31, 2017, in order to receive your 2016 T4 slip electronically.
We still have a few $75 fitness subsidy grants available for UPEI employees to use towards either small group training or cycle classes. Application form can be found at https://files.upei.ca/athletics/wellness/wellness_employee_subsidy_form.pdf
Small group training opportunities involve 12 sessions with a personal training and 6-8 people. A number of groups and times available include training at 6:15am, noon, 1 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 7 and 8 pm. Please visit https://www.upei.ca/ar/small-group-training
Cycle Fit and Cycle n' Lift class information https://www.upei.ca/ar/fitness-classes
Contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca
