Campus Notices
The next UPEI Senate meeting is scheduled for Friday, September 25, 2026, 3:00 pm at Alumni Hall, Room 102, 618 University Avenue. All meetings are open to members of the University community. Certain agenda items, including but not limited to granting of degrees, academic dismissals, and human resources discussions, may require the Senate to go into a closed session. For logistical purposes, members of the public who wish to attend the open session of a meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca by 3:00 pm on the day prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person.
View the schedule of UPEI Senate meetings for the 2026–2027 academic year.
Spinal Cord Injury PEI (SCI PEI) invites you to participate in a Week Without Driving!
Transportation shapes every part of life. No matter where we live, everyone deserves safe, reliable, and dignified access to the places we need to go. Non-drivers make up 30% of the population.
The annual Week Without Driving returns October 1 to 8, inviting policy-makers and the public to experience transit, active travel, and other mobility options as a non-driver. We hope that the insights we collect from participants will lead to more accessible communities for everyone.
Commit to not driving for the week, or even just a day or two. And spread the word about the need for more transportation choices in your community. Pledge to take a Week Without Driving here: https://transitmatterschtown.ca/wwd2026
September programming through SCI PEI can also be found on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1980961509352887&set=a.1162200021229044
On Friday, September 18 at 7:30 pm, the UPEI Department of Music opens its 2026-2027 recital series with their second annual Prelude to Homecoming concert, which will once again showcase the Department's new Yamaha CFX concert grand piano in the refurbished Steel Recital Hall (UPEI campus). This concert will feature Magdalena von Eccher as a soloist and in collaboration with full-time faculty (Dale Sorensen, Nicole Strum, and Sung Ha Shin-Bouey), along with part-time faculty and several Department of Music alumni. Also featured this year will be a faculty/alumni jazz combo. Tickets can be purchased online here. Please visit https://upei.ca/music for more information.
The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) is recruiting students to join its Student Ambassador Team for the upcoming academic year! As a Student Ambassador, you'll help promote entrepreneurship across campus, support workshops and events, engage with fellow students, and help build a vibrant entrepreneurial community at UPEI.
If you're a full-time UPEI student with strong communication skills and a passion for innovation, we'd love to hear from you! Applications for the volunteer student ambassador positions is open until September 8. Apply here!
IT Systems and Services is preparing virtual student computer lab applications for the Fall 2026 semester. We kindly ask that all faculty and/or lab facilitators who require access to virtual lab applications for their courses please submit their requests via the form below.
Please complete this form if you are facilitating a course in the upcoming Fall 2026 semester and your students will require virtual lab access to complete their course.
Please note that any virtual lab access previously provided for courses will be removed by September 4th, 2026. If your students still require access during the Fall 2026 semester, please re-submit the above form.
In some specialized cases, there may be costs and approvals associated with provisioning virtual labs, and in these cases, ITSS will contact you to discuss next steps.
Save the Date! Memorial University’s Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) is pleased to host the 2026 Atlantic Universities’ Teaching Showcase on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
Centered on the theme Pedagogy, Practice, and Purpose in the Age of GenAI, this year’s showcase will explore the implications and opportunities of generative AI (GenAI) through shared experiences, perspectives and conversations about teaching, learning, and research.
Join colleagues from universities across Atlantic Canada for this fully online event. Visit the showcase website and subscribe to receive showcase updates.
On Friday, September 18 at 7:30 pm, the UPEI Department of Music opens its 2026-2027 recital series with their second annual Prelude to Homecoming concert, which will once again showcase the Department's new Yamaha CFX concert grand piano in the refurbished Steel Recital Hall (UPEI campus). This concert will feature Magdalena von Eccher as a soloist and in collaboration with full-time faculty (Dale Sorensen, Nicole Strum, and Sung Ha Shin-Bouey), along with part-time faculty and several Department of Music alumni. Also featured this year will be a faculty/alumni jazz combo. Tickets can be purchased online here. Please visit https://upei.ca/music for more information.
This year’s Shannon K. Murray Lecture Hope for Humans features Dr. Kevin Gannon, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte.
The Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy will take place on Tuesday, September 22, at 3:30 pm in SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge, Room 201.
The Shannon K. Murray Lecture on Hope and the Academy was established in 2023 to honour the achievements of Dr. Shannon Murray, an award-winning professor of English and a 3M National Teaching Fellow. In 2022, Dr. Murray received the Christopher Knapper Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the highest honours awarded in Canada for teaching and learning in higher education.
All are welcome.
The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) is recruiting students to join its Student Ambassador Team for the upcoming academic year! As a Student Ambassador, you'll help promote entrepreneurship across campus, support workshops and events, engage with fellow students, and help build a vibrant entrepreneurial community at UPEI.
If you're a full-time UPEI student with strong communication skills and a passion for innovation, we'd love to hear from you! Applications for the volunteer student ambassador positions is open until September 8. Apply here!
MS Teams has been added to Moodle as a way for instructors to schedule online meetings and create just-in-time recordings. The Teaching and Learning Centre will host an in-person workshop on Wednesday, September 9 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm covering basic use of MS Teams with Moodle. The session will be hosted in the Teaching and Learning Centre in the Robertson Library Annex (RL 230). Please register for this session here: TLC Lunch & Learn: Intro to MS Teams in Moodle – Fill out form
Instructors who are looking for immediate resources may find this new section of the Staff and Faculty Moodle Support page a useful support featuring quick guides as well as the Teaching with MS Teams micro-course: https://moodle31.upei.ca/course/section.php?id=395173
The Faculty of Graduate Studies, UPEI Student Union, and Welcome Week invite ALL graduate students (starting and continuing their graduate studies) + campus graduate student supporters to an informal social mixer event.
WHEN - 4:30-6:00 on Thursday, September 3 (drop-in style)
WHERE - The Fox and Crow, in W.A Murphy Student Centre
WHO - ALL graduate students, graduate student campus supporters, including: faculty (supervisors and instructors), staff and administrators
WHY - Join us to connect/re-connect, and welcome all graduate students to the new semester!
Questions about the mixer? Contact Kendra Mellish, Graduate Programs Officer, at kmellish@upei.ca
We can't wait to see you there!
As we look ahead to the fall, Human Resources is pleased to share a selection of learning and professional development opportunities available to UPEI employees and leaders.
To support access to these opportunities, we have created two dedicated areas on the Human Resources SharePoint site:
Professional Development Opportunities
This page provides a comprehensive list of available learning opportunities. Each offering includes details such as the program description, target audience, delivery method, facilitator, session dates, and registration information. While some opportunities are offered directly through UPEI, some virtual learning opportunities are hosted by external organizations and require registration through an external platform (for example, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI).
HR Events Calendar
This page provides a visual calendar of upcoming events, including professional development, making it easy to see what is being offered and when. You can also access course details and registration information directly from the calendar.
We will continue to add new learning opportunities throughout the fall and winter. We encourage you to visit these pages regularly to stay informed about new offerings and upcoming events. If there is a learning opportunity you would like to see added, please click here.
Sports Centre/Fitness Centre will be closing early on Thursday, September 3 at 6:00 pm due to student staff training.
The Robertson Library team is looking forward to welcoming UPEI campus community members and visitors to our newly renovated spaces—the main lobby and adjoining all-gender washrooms, the central staircase, and the upper landing—this fall. Thanks to the efforts of the project contractors and UPEI Facilities Management (Capital Projects), work has been progressing well, but there have been a few delays. The full library reopening is now scheduled for Monday, September 21, 2026.
Since May, the Robertson Library has been operating a temporary service point in Library Annex, Room 235, from 9 am– 5 pm, Monday–Friday, and this will continue through Friday, September 18, 2026.
Evening and weekend printing/scanning support will remain unavailable until the Library’s main Service Desk reopens September 21, so please plan accordingly; if you have time-sensitive printing/scanning needs outside of the Room 235 service point hours, the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre (downtown) or the Staples Printing Centre may be able to assist.
In addition, McMillan Hall in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre has been booked for use throughout the day and evening as a student study space during the month of September. Remember to check out the new UPEI new UPEI Support Services Campus Map, created by UPEI Welcome Week and the UPEI Student Culture and Community Standards teams; the green icons on this map highlight buildings offering student study spaces. For more information, visit https://libraryupei.ca/renovations-2026
Our EFAP provider, Green Shield, is hosting orientation webinars for all employees, faculty members, and their dependents who would like to learn more about how their UPEI EFAP benefits work.
2026 dates offered: February 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, August 6, September 3, October 1, November 5 and December 3.
To register:
- Click this ZOOM link to register
- Please select the best date (note that the time zone is listed in EST).
- Complete the Webinar Registration.
- You will receive an email confirmation that has the log-in and call-in details.
This comprehensive, confidential, and accessible program offers a wide range of services to support your mental health and overall well-being, including:
5 hours of individual counselling (Green Shield will closely monitor usage and will provide additional hours to those who need further support, to ensure that no one is denied access to the program because of insufficient sponsored hours in any policy year) and 5 hours of couples therapy
Additional program highlights include:
- Flexible therapy options via phone, video, or in-person, with 30, 60, or 90-minute sessions
- Personalized therapist matching that considers DEI preferences
- Unlimited 15-minute consultations to help members find their ideal therapist
- Innovative, value-added services in areas such as children’s mental health, nutrition, and overall well-being
- Unlimited financial and legal consultations
- Self-guided digital CBT, well-being coaching, and personalized care navigation
- Digital pharmacy and nutrition services
Create your account to explore services, including Mental Health Support: Get convenient, personalized mental health support from a qualified therapist best suited to you, or explore our self-guided online therapy program at your own pace.
We hope you’ll enjoy this integrated and convenient health experience.
ACCOUNT AS AN EMPLOYEE
Create your account to access GreenShield+ services today.
Your Organization code is: UPEI
Sign Up
To access your EAP on GreenShield+:
- Make a note of your Organization Code "UPEI"
- Go to app.greenshieldplus.ca/en/sign-up
- Select Through an Employer or Organization
- Select I have an Organization Code
- Follow the steps to register
ACCOUNT AS A DEPENDENT
Before You Begin: You should only choose through a family member if you are a dependent (e.g. partner, spouse, child) of a person with a plan member ID or organization code.
For questions, contact Human Resources at employeeservices@upei.ca
Senate meetings for the 2025-2026 Calendar year are scheduled 3:00 to 5:00 pm on the following dates:
- Friday, September 25, 2026
- Friday, October 23, 2026
- Friday, November 27, 2026
- Friday, December 11, 2026
- Friday, January 22, 2027
- Friday, February 26, 2027
- Thursday, March 25, 2027
- Friday, April 23, 2027
- Friday, May 7, 2027
To view the 2026-2027 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here.
All meetings are open to members of the University community, although certain in-camera items (e.g., granting of degrees) may require the Senate to go into a closed session. Only members of Senate are permitted to address the Senate unless otherwise recognized by the chair.
For logistical purposes, members of the UPEI community who wish to attend the open session of a UPEI Senate meeting are asked to contact senate@upei.ca one week prior to the meeting. While Senate is an in-person meeting, members of the University community may request a virtual connection when they are unable to attend in person.
The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship (CCCE) is recruiting students to join its Student Ambassador Team for the upcoming academic year! As a Student Ambassador, you'll help promote entrepreneurship across campus, support workshops and events, engage with fellow students, and help build a vibrant entrepreneurial community at UPEI.
If you're a full-time UPEI student with strong communication skills and a passion for innovation, we'd love to hear from you! Applications for the volunteer student ambassador positions is open until September 8. Apply here!
The Faculty of Graduate Studies, UPEI Student Union, and Welcome Week invite ALL graduate students (starting and continuing their graduate studies) + campus graduate student supporters to an informal social mixer event.
WHEN - 4:30-6:00 on Thursday, September 3 (drop-in style)
WHERE - The Fox and Crow, in W.A Murphy Student Centre
WHO - ALL graduate students, graduate student campus supporters, including: faculty (supervisors and instructors), staff and administrators
WHY - Join us to connect/re-connect, and welcome all graduate students to the new semester!
Questions about the mixer? Contact Kendra Mellish, Graduate Programs Officer, at kmellish@upei.ca
We can't wait to see you there!
Engineering is seeking empty printer-paper boxes to use for a lab activity in ENGN 1410 (Sustainability in Engineering Design) in the fall semester. Students will be using the boxes as the base for model net-zero energy houses they will design and construct from recycled materials.
We need the boxes that held 10 reams of letter-sized printer paper (not legal-sized paper, or bankers boxes).
If you have any empty or near empty boxes that match those specifications, please contact Megan Glover at mglover@upei.ca or 626-4665.
Academics Without Borders is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to working with universities and colleges in low- and middle-income countries on projects initiated and defined by those partner institutions. Karatina University, in Kenya, is currently looking for a volunteer to help them expand and enhance local skills in and knowledge in policy engagement, research uptake, and evidence formed decision making. See the full announcement and much more information at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CUxpScxCnbzjBMylFVnP61AA26YgOZvo/view. The deadline for applications is September 18, 2026.
Questions? contact Ann Braithwaite, Professor of DSJS and member of the board of AWB-USF at abraithwaite@upei.ca or reach out to Corrie Young Associate Executive Director of AWB-USF at cyoung@awb-usf.org.
