The Office of the President cordially invites you to attend the MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing Celebration.

Please join members of the MacLauchlan family, guest speaker Gary MacDougall, and the UPEI community in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, to celebrate the achievements of UPEI students.

For more information, please contact Donna Lawless at dlawless@upei.ca or 902-566-0637.

Overview: The Certificate in Customer and Client Service is designed to give the knowledge, skills, and tools for individuals to improve customer and client service within their organization. Not only are the benefits of improved customer and client service positive feelings and loyalty, but it also improves the workplace morale, which in turn leads to better production and results.

At the end of this certificate, participants will be able to elevate customer and client service both internally and externally within their organization, turn customer and client service failures into learning opportunities—which will lead to positives—and create a culture that will make great customer and client service consistent and a priority among all members of an organization.

Designed for: All people involved with customer and client service, both in a retail and a multi-level organizational sense.  Especially relevant for all executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who deal with other people within their workplace.

Type of Delivery: In-person.

Duration: One day (six hours)

Facilitator: Tracy Stretch

For more information and to register, go to https://www.upei.ca/professional-development/certificates/customer-and-client-service.  

NOTE: an earlier version of this notice listed the price as $99. The actual cost is $499. Sorry for any confusion. 

Version control is the practice of managing and sharing changes to documents, programming code, websites, or any other files to keep track of what’s been changed, by whom, when, and why. All previous versions of files are saved, and you can even revert to a previous version. Git-portal sites, like GitHub or GitLab, offer many useful features to facilitate collaborative development. In this beginner-level session, we will show you how to create a repository, record changes to files, explore and restore from the recorded history, and how to resolve conflicts (when one member overwrites another’s changes).

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/using-git-tools-to-manage-file-changes-and-collaborate-version-control-tickets-427310927487 

A video recording of Canadian author, journalist, and historian Gwynne Dyer's recent lecture at UPEI is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwpYUeeZm4w.

Dyer gave a public lecture titled “Planetary Maintenance Engineers: A Last-Ditch Climate Rescue Strategy” on November 3 in the UPEI Duffy Science Centre. He discussed challenges facing the world because of climate change and explored the concept of “geoengineering,” or cooling the planet by artificial means. 

This event was presented by the Saint Dunstan’s University Board of Governors, in cooperation with the University of Prince Edward Island.
 

The theme of this conference is Looking to the Future of Academic Integrity. Given this theme, you are invited to share work-related, but not limited, to the following broad areas:

• Institution-wide approaches to academic integrity, including topics related to the importance of fostering cultures of academic integrity, promotion of academic integrity to students and academic staff, and policies and procedures.
• Faculty support for academic integrity, including topics related to teaching experiences around academic integrity, structuring courses and curricula to support academic integrity, and conversations about academic misconduct with students.
• Student support for academic integrity, including topics related to what instructors should know about how and why students do and do not cheat, the value of libraries as a student resource, and issues that students from abroad face on our campuses.

We also encourage proposals that explore the intersections between academic integrity and equity, diversity, and inclusion. CSAI 2023 will provide a dynamic environment for ongoing discussion about the future of academic integrity in higher education.

The deadline for submissions is December 16, 2022. Download the  Submission Instructions and the Proposal for Presentations Template.

IT words and phrases can be confusing, and not everyone can be familiar so we are going to explain a few of the common ones:

Bookmark the site: When we use this term, we are referring to an electronic bookmark that saves a webpage. Found a good recipe or an article you'd like to come back to? Bookmark it by pressing CTRL + D on most browsers.

Clear your cookies and cache: Cookies are files created by sites you visit. They make your online experience easier by saving browsing data. The cache remembers parts of pages, like images, to help them open faster during your next visit. Clearing them protects your personal information and helps applications run better on your computer. Depending on whether you use Edge, Chrome, or Firefox, there are different ways to clear your cookies and cache (google the right one for you).

The Cloud: The cloud refers to software and services that run on the internet instead of your computer, for example, Google Drive.

IP address: This is a numerical address that corresponds to your computer on a network.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator, also known as a web address. 

Let us know if you'd like any other terms or words explained. 

Thinking about ways to encourage students to apply feedback that they've received on an assignment?  Here's a Faculty Focus article with ideas that support student development of these skills and, hopefully, help them end up with a better grade in your course. Read “They Don’t Read My Feedback!” Strategies to Encourage Reception and Application of Course Feedback.

The UPEI Faculty of Arts invites students and faculty to join us on Thursday, November 17 at 3:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, when Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, will discuss the association's work.  

The UPEI Arts Review (Vol. XII) is now accepting visual artwork and written submissions! The Arts Review offers students from all faculties the opportunity to have their work published during their time at UPEI. Our goal is to see excellent student work strengthened, published, and celebrated.

We accept any form of writing including academic essays, poems, short stories, science papers, scripts, etc., and any form of visual artwork including photography, drawings, paintings, digital art, sketches, etc. Multiple submissions are allowed. The deadline to submit is December 21, 2022. Please send all submissions to artsreview@upei.ca with a 200-word abstract to introduce your piece. 

Be sure to check out the UPEI Arts Review page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/UPEIArtsReview) or @upei.artsreview on Instagram for more information and reminders!

This 24-year-old mare enjoys a good scratch, treats, and outdoor life. Happy’s mantra is eat, sleep, treats, repeat. Because of her outlook on life, Happy is well-conditioned and has never had an issue staying this way. Happy gets along well with other horses and doesn’t put up much of a fuss over new friends. She would be a fantastic companion horse. Her hind limb lameness prevents her from being ridden or expending too much energy. However, she looks fantastic in a field. Her lovely personality and willingness to be handled and spoiled by humans make her an excellent candidate for someone who wants a horse to spoil and be loved by.

If you are interested in this lovely lady or would like more information, please contact Kindra at kinstewart@upei.ca

The search committee for the Dean of Nursing announces an upcoming presentation by Dr. Christina Murray, one of the short-listed candidates for this position. Dr. Murray will deliver a public presentation on Wednesday, November 16, at 9:00 am in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142. 

Dr. Christina Murray is recognized nationally for her work on labor mobility and family-centered research. In 2018, Dr. Murray was awarded the Mirabelli-Glossop Award for her significant contributions to advancing Canadian understanding of unique family issues. Since 2020, her work has focused on the experiences of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren and advocacy for policies that help to support grandparents on Prince Edward Island.

She received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Prince Edward Island and her Master of Nursing from the University of Calgary, where she studied the professional development and continuing education needs of practicing school health nurses in the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Murray obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. At UPEI, she has been the coordinator of strategic planning for the Faculty of Nursing, a member of the UPEI Senate, vice-chair of the Senate Steering Committee, chair of the Senate Nominating Committee, and a member and acting chair of the Senate Academic and Student Disciplinary Committee. Since July 2022, she has served as interim dean of the Faculty of Nursing at UPEI. 

All are welcome to attend. For any who are unable to attend, the presentation will be recorded and available afterward for viewing from a secure site.  

UPEI honours its rich heritage and traditions by acknowledging members of the campus community who have contributed to its mission in an exceptional way by naming them “Founders,” an initiative established by President Emeritus Wade MacLauchlan in 2000.

Recognizing our Founders is an opportunity to honour those who have worked diligently and passionately to build the University into the highly regarded institution of higher education it is today. The award is presented to members of the campus community who have played a direct role in supporting the vision, reputation, and continued success of the University and/or creating a new era of educational, research, and/or service excellence at the University.

Typically, two nominees are selected each year. Nominations are limited to one page (500 words) in length and must address the following three areas:

1. Why do think this nominee is a worthy recipient of this award?
2. How has the nominee met the criteria of the award?
3. Please include any further information you feel is important about the nominee.

If you wish to submit a nomination for this award, please email your submission to communications@upei.ca, including your name, business telephone number, email address, and relationship to the nominee along with the name, address, telephone number, and email address of the person you wish to nominate. Completed nominations must be received by November 21, 2022, at 11:59 pm.

If you are interested in learning more about this award and past award winners, please visit our UPEI Founders web page.

For more information, contact: Nicole Phillips, Director of Communications and University Relations @ nphillips@upei.ca or 902-566-0947.

The Office of the President cordially invites you to attend the MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing Celebration.

Please join members of the MacLauchlan family, guest speaker Gary MacDougall, and the UPEI community in Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, to celebrate the achievements of UPEI students.

For more information, please contact Donna Lawless at dlawless@upei.ca or 902-566-0637.

Once again, the UPEI Bookstore will be offering Christmas staff shopping to all staff and faculty. Staff will be able to charge purchases from the UPEI Bookstore to their personal account between Monday, November 28, and Saturday, December 3, 2022. Payroll deductions will be from January 20-April 28, 2023. Your 20% discount will apply.

Please contact bookstore@upei.ca for any questions.

Dr. Ed MacDonald, professor of history, will give a public lecture titled "Enshrined: Island Tourism and the Confederation Story" on November 15 at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. For over a century, the three staple constants in Prince Edward Island tourism have been our pastoral landscape, Anne of Green Gables, and the Island's claim as the "Birthplace of Confederation." But becoming the "Cradle of Confederation" was not as easy as it sounds, and the story of how Island tourism promoters recognized the tourism potential of that claim and then gradually convinced Canadians that it was both true and important presents a fascinating case study of "site sacralization" and branding in Canada's Garden Province. For this lecture, Dr. MacDonald will draw upon research conducted by him and his co-author, Dr. Alan MacEachern, for their new book, The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island.

All are welcome to attend.

This is an introductory lesson adapted from the Library Carpentry workshop on Introduction to working with Data [https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-data-intro/index.html] that introduces people with library- and information-related roles, or those in the Humanities and Social Sciences professions that work with data, to using regular expressions. Regular expressions are a concept and an implementation used in many different programming environments for sophisticated pattern matching. They are an incredibly powerful tool that can amplify your capacity to find, manage, and transform data and files. The lesson provides background on the regular expression language and how it can be used to match and extract text and to clean data. No previous experience with programming is required.

For details and registration, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-hss-working-with-data-series-regular-expressions-tickets-427316544287 
 

The deadline for Winter 2023 Tuition Waivers is December 12, 2022. We encourage you to have tuition waivers submitted as soon as possible to assist in the timely processing. Tuition Waiver forms must be submitted electronically.  

Online Employee and Spouse/Dependent Tuition Waiver fillable forms can be found on the main page of MyUPEI under UPEI Forms.

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at (902) 566-0514 or hrgeneral@upei.ca.

The UPEI Department of Music will present a recital by the Stadacona Band Brass Ensemble and UPEI Brass Ensemble entitled "Pictures in Brass."

The Stadacona Band of the Royal Canadian Navy, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a 35-piece professional military band with a proud tradition of musical excellence spanning more than 75 years. Representing Canada’s East Coast Navy across the Atlantic Provinces, the band provides musical support to the Canadian Armed Forces, all levels of government, and a variety of public engagements.

Admission is by cash donation at the door.

IT Systems and Services will be performing network maintenance on our campus network on November 20 from 8 to 11 am. During this time, there will be intermittent connectivity on the campus network. If you are off campus, many services such as Microsoft solutions (including email), Google, Zoom, upei.ca, Moodle, etc., that are in the cloud will not be impacted.  

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. 

The search committee for the Dean of Nursing announces an upcoming presentation by Dr. Christina Murray, one of the short-listed candidates for this position. Dr. Murray will deliver a public presentation on Wednesday, November 16, at 9:00 am in Bill and Denise Andrew Hall, Room 142. 

Dr. Christina Murray is recognized nationally for her work on labor mobility and family-centered research. In 2018, Dr. Murray was awarded the Mirabelli-Glossop Award for her significant contributions to advancing Canadian understanding of unique family issues. Since 2020, her work has focused on the experiences of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren and advocacy for policies that help to support grandparents on Prince Edward Island.

She received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Prince Edward Island and her Master of Nursing from the University of Calgary, where she studied the professional development and continuing education needs of practicing school health nurses in the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Murray obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. At UPEI, she has been the coordinator of strategic planning for the Faculty of Nursing, a member of the UPEI Senate, vice-chair of the Senate Steering Committee, chair of the Senate Nominating Committee, and a member and acting chair of the Senate Academic and Student Disciplinary Committee. Since July 2022, she has served as interim dean of the Faculty of Nursing at UPEI. 

All are welcome to attend. For any who are unable to attend, the presentation will be recorded and available afterward for viewing from a secure site.