Hillcrest United Church, 50 Wood Islands Rd, Montague, PE, is pleased to host a recital featuring a number of the UPEI Department of Music's outstanding young performers on brass, woodwinds, guitar, piano, and voice.

On the program will be works by well-known composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, along with less familiar works by a diverse range of highly respected composers such as French composer Fernande Decruck, British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

There is no admission, but donations to help offset costs will be much appreciated.

If you're a working professional and passionate about sharing your knowledge, skills, and experience with international students in PEI, this opportunity is for you!

The Study & Stay PEI program provides international students with enhanced one-on-one and group support throughout their final year of study at a post-secondary institution in PEI. The program also includes a managed mentorship component, providing opportunities for students to apply what they’ve learned, build connections, and gain a deeper understanding of PEI’s workplace culture. As a mentor, you can be a part of this support system and share your valuable knowledge, skills, and experience with students.

To sign up as a mentor, please visit studypei.ca. Please contact us at studyandstaypei@upei.ca if you have any questions. Thank you.

Over the coming weeks, IT Systems and Services will be pushing out a required update to the ESET Endpoint Security software installed on UPEI computers.  After the update is installed on your workstation, you will be prompted to restart your computer within five hours. This prompt will provide you with the opportunity to postpone the required restart if necessary. However, we urge you to please restart your computer at the earliest possible time available to you.

If you have any questions about this change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at helpdesk@upei.ca for more information.

The Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Committee invites the campus community to the next presentation of the 2022-23 Environmental Sciences & Human Biology seminar series on Friday, November 18, 2022, at 12:30 p.m. in Duffy Science Centre, Room 204.

 Dr. Joel Ross, Faculty of Science Graduate Studies Coordinator will present “Orientation to Graduate Studies:  Resources and Processes.” 

All are welcome.

November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which is used to honour the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year. The week (November 13-20th) leading up to TDOR serves to raise awareness of/increase visibility of transgender issues, particularly intimate partner violence (IPV).  Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.

For more information, check out the following links:

PEI Transgender Network: https://www.peitn.com/

P.E.E.R.S. Alliance: https://www.peersalliance.ca/

https://www.glaad.org/transweek

The Academic Instructional Skills Program is looking for participants to take part in one of its courses. The course focuses on facilitating class discussions, group work, and student-to-student interactions. We need participants who are interested to sign up for one or both of the course's synchronous workshops.  Once we have a critical mass, we can organize a date for the delivery of each workshop. The focus of these workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to practice their delivery in facilitating discussion, group work and peer-to-peer interaction in an online or an in-person teaching environment. Interested participants can sign up for one or both workshops. There is also an online asynchronous component to the course that must be completed prior to the synchronous workshops.

Sign up for the workshop that focuses on practicing teaching online (delivered online).

Sign up for the workshop that focuses on practicing teaching in person (delivered in person).

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

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 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