The following Message from the President was also distributed to students, faculty, and staff via their @upei.ca emails.

Dear Members of the University Community,

Earlier today UPEI participated in a virtual meeting with Dr. Heather Morrison and representatives from the PEI Chief Public Health Office, as well as Holland College and Collège de l’Île, to discuss updated, temporary public health guidance that goes into effect immediately for post-secondary education on PEI.

The following message was distributed to members of the UPEI community via their @upei.ca emails on behalf of the Office of the President.

Dear Members of the UPEI Community,

As we begin the New Year and Winter Academic Semester, I trust that you had a nice holiday break and are filled with hope and optimism for 2022. Unfortunately, here on PEI and around the world, we continue to face an evolving public health situation with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the COVID-19.

The following message was also distributed to members of the UPEI community via their @upei.ca emails on behalf of the Office of the President.

Dear Members of the UPEI Community,

Despite a safe fall semester, due to the rising cases of COVID-19 in the region and the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variant to PEI, UPEI is making some important health and safety changes as we near the holiday break and approach the 2022 Winter Academic Semester.

On August 31, UPEI updated its process for the UPEI Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy and issued a message to students, faculty, and staff.  

The following message was distributed to faculty and staff on August 31, 2021, via their @upei.ca emails on behalf of the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research and Office of the Vice-President Administration and Finance.  A similar message was sent to students by the Associate Vice-President of Students and Registrar.

Dear Faculty and Staff,

The following message was sent on August 27, 2021, to faculty, staff, and student @upei.ca email addresses by Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research and the Office of the Vice-President Administration and Finance.

Dear Members of the Campus Community, 

The following message was distributed to faculty and staff to their @upei.ca emails on August 24, 2021.

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Over the past year and a half, we have worked together to overcome tremendous challenges during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. While UPEI has done very well to return to a more in-person educational delivery mode for the fall semester, it has become very apparent that we need to take further measures in order to ensure that our campus continues to be as safe as possible for all members of our community.

For Dr. Karem Simon and Dr. Greg Doran, this day has been a long time coming.

UPEI’s new residence building, now under construction, will be home to a new performing arts venue, including a 400-seat theatre. The University is launching a campaign to raise $3 million to enhance and deliver outstanding programming and state-of-the-art equipment for that venue, as well as renovate the beloved and historic Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

A project to develop an early warning system for identifying complex gill disease on salmon farms, led by Dr. Mark Fast, professor of fish health and immunology, Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI, has received $4.7 million in funding through Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP).