CER held a very positive, energetic Renewal Meeting Thursday September 22nd (2:30 - 4:30), with 14 people, including the founding CER Director and new Graduate Program Coordinator (Ray Doiron), the most recent CER Interim Director (Sandy McAuley) and the Dean (Interim) (Miles Turnbull). I am reporting these names to illustrate the commitment 'from the top' to renew CER for the Faculty of Education and UPEI overall. Regrets were sent from a number of active researchers and CER members, indicating a desire to continue their support for CER. The future of CER is with us!  So thanks to those who have made their ongoing support explicit.

Brainstorming at the meeting focused on the next 'vision' and priority activities for CER. An overview is that CER is well positioned to facilitate research proposal development to include funding for CER project management where appropriate, to mentor new researchers and facilitate research collaboration within the Faculty & across UPEI, and to provide education-focused, 'services' for fees, particularly developing 'educational' approaches for knowledge translation, exchange, mobilization, and utilization.

For now, there is a lovely renewed energy around CER. CER is 'open' for consultation to mentor faculty and facilitate proposals in which future funding could support CER to play a role. We'll update the website in the next month and overall re-generate a CER presence! The Seminar Series is under development with a close link to the PhD/graduate program schedule (Tuesdays - watch for news on this). The Research Forum will be in the Spring as usual, dates and a call for presentations pending in the next month or so).

Dolores LeVangie and Liz Townsend are both part-time, and will be in the CER office Wednesdays & Thursdays or by appointment through cer@upei.ca which is checked Monday - Friday mornings.

Liz Townsend, CER Director