Dexterra is pleased to offer the following food and beverage offerings this spring and summer. 

Atlantic Veterinary College Café
Staff and Faculty, show your campus ID and enjoy 15% off your order. Open Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 1:30 pm (closed on holidays)

The café offers a fresh lineup of made-to-order breakfast and lunch options, a full-drip coffee program, grab-and-go meals, and freshly baked goods. 

Breakfast features include the Daily Rise (two eggs any style, bacon or sausage, toast, and jam, plus coffee or tea), bagel bar, and the Chef’s Morning Plate—a rotating daily special. For lunch, choose from hot pizza, soup, daily specials, and sandwiches.

What’s Brewing?  Made-to-order breakfast and lunch; fresh drip coffee program; grab-and-go snacks and meals; and delicious baked goods.

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Centre Bodega
Open Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 1:30 pm (closed on holidays)

Offerings include:

• Breakfast Sandwiches
• Fresh baked goods
• Hot fresh pizza
• Daily soups made from scratch
• House made sandwiches, salads, and sushi
• Full coffee program that includes cappuccinos and lattes

Tim Hortons, Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, Samuel’s Café, and the Micro-Market will be closed for the season, reopening in September 2026. 

Grab a cup of fresh coffee at the UPEI Bookstore for $2.50 plus tax. The Bookstore, which is located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre, is open from 9:00 am-4:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see all the new items arriving this month.

Troy Life & Fire Safety will perform fire alarm inspections in selected campus buildings on the dates listed below. As part of the inspections, there will be the testing of alarms. There will be an audible notification stating “This is a test” at the beginning and the end of each test. Occupants are not required to evacuate during the testing period. The ringing of alarms is required to test their function and to ensure the speakers work throughout the building. This will be a small portion (up to two hours) of the total time they are in the building. 

Inspections will take place at the following locations:

• Campus Kids Child Care Centre, May 1
• Chaplaincy Centre, May 1
• Performing Arts Centre and New Residence, May 4–7
• Bernardine Hall, May 11
• Kelley Memorial Building, May 11
• Don and Marion McDougall Hall, May 11
• Duffy Science Centre, May 11
• W.A. Murphy Student Centre, May 11
• Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall, May 11

Fire alarm inspections for other buildings on campus will be announced at a later date.

Are you trying to find some dedicated time to finish a writing project that needs focused attention? Time to Write retreats offer concentrated time to support your writing efforts and can be instrumental in the initiation or completion of scholarly work such as an article, book or book chapter, grant proposal, curriculum or OER development, conference presentations, or other scholarly, creative projects.  

Time to work on writing projects away from home and campus for a few days can be incredibly productive. Participation in a writing retreat with colleagues at various stages of their career not only provides quiet, focused writing time away from teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities, but it also offers mentorship and networking opportunities with colleagues from a range of disciplines. The retreat provides an opportunity to develop a supportive writing group with colleagues from across campus and join group discussions on writing and publishing. Research on relational approaches to scholarly writing retreats like our Time to Write Retreats has demonstrated many benefits (Ahern-Dodson, 2025).  

A Time to Write retreat will be offered from Monday, June 15, to Thursday, June 18, at the North Rustico Cottages in North Rustico.   

Participants must have a project (e.g., grant application, research publication) at a stage where sustained writing time makes sense with background research and/or data collection and analysis completed to the point that they are ready to write. Participants must be prepared to commit to the full program, a total of 3 days focused on writing and contribute $300. The retreat is open to faculty (term and sessional faculty are encouraged to apply) and librarians in any academic unit at UPEI. Interested participants will email an expression of interest consisting of a summary of the project they plan to work on and their writing goals for the retreat to TLC@upei.ca by 12:00 noon on Friday, May 15, 2026. Up to six participants will be accepted for this Time to Write retreat. 

The University’s operating budget for the 2026–2027 fiscal year was approved at the UPEI Board of Governors' last meeting. Read the UPEI news release 

Tim Walker, Vice-President, Finance and Administration, and Dr. Wendy Rodgers, President and Vice-Chancellor, invite you to the

UPEI Budget 2026–2027 Information Session
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 
Amphitheatre, Performing Arts Centre and Residence building (PAC121S)  
3:00 pm

If you are unable to participate in person, you are welcome to join us virtually at this Teams Town Hall link. 

The 2026–2027 UPEI Operating Budget may be found on the publications page of the UPEI website. 

In order to accommodate UPEI computer classroom and lab software adds, drops, or modifications for the 2026 fall semester, we have set a firm deadline of June 1, 2026.

This date is necessary to allow sufficient time to plan and implement the installation of new and upgraded software. This ensures our students will have the software resources they need. Any requests received after the deadline will be applied in the next round of software updates.

Further information of currently installed software is available on the ITSS website, and you can fill out the following Computer Lab Software Request Form by June 1 with your request for software.

The Faculty of Education invites members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff––to attend a public presentation by Michelle Sylliboy, candidate for a three-year position in Indigenous Education. The presentation takes place from 9:00 to 10:00 am on May 6 in Memorial Hall 417. A Teams link is available for those wishing to attend online (Meeting ID: 269 402 077 226 164 / Passcode: 4E52Cf2e)

For further information, contact Karen-Anne O’Halloran.
 

The Faculty of Education invites members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff--to attend a public presentation by Tara-Lynn Rioux Germain, a candidate for a three-year position in Indigenous Education. The presentation takes place from 9:00 to 10:00 am on May 5 in Memorial Hall 417. A Teams link is available for those wishing to attend online (Meeting ID: 227 941 500 684 440 / Passcode: cF9rW7gM)

For further information, contact Karen-Anne O’Halloran.

Red Dress Day is a National Day of Awareness and Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Gender Diverse Peoples (MMIWG2S) that takes place on May 5. 

MMIWG2S is an ongoing human rights crisis of gender-based and racialized violence in Canada. Indigenous women’s groups estimate that more than 4,000 Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse people have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since 1980. This violence is a result of past and ongoing systems of oppression and harm including colonization, racism, misogyny, transphobia, and anti-Indigeneity. 

In 2010, in response to this crisis, Métis artist Jaime Black-Morsette created the REDress Project, an art installation featuring red dresses hung in public spaces to symbolize the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse people across this territory. Her art installation was the inspiration for Red Dress Day in Canada.

The UPEI Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) encourages the campus community to join them in honouring Red Dress Day:  

• Display a red dress or a red dress flyer in your department or office until May 5 (You can access a Red Dress flyer here: https://tinyurl.com/33kz2r8k  If you do not have access to a colour printer, Kelly at SVPRO can send copies by interoffice mail: 902-620-5428 or sv-pro@upei.ca)
• Educate yourself on MMIWG2S (You can access the final report of the National Inquiry here: www.mmiwg-ffada.ca and Safe Passage here: www.safe-passage.ca)
• Wear red on May 5
• Take part in local vigils, walks, or events (watch for news from the Aboriginal Women’s Association of PEI, L’Nuey, Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI, and the Native Council of PEI)
• Speak up about MMIWG2S on social media using hashtags #MMIWG2S, #RedDressDay, and #WhyWeWearRed 

There is 24-hour support available for Indigenous, Inuit, or Métis individuals impacted by this crisis at 1-844-413-6649. Any UPEI Campus Member impacted by sexual violence can access confidential, trauma-informed support at the UPEI Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm: 902-620-5090 or sv-pro@upei.ca . SVPRO is located at the Kelley Memorial Building, Room 115-118. 

The ninth meeting of the UPEI Senate will take place on Friday, May 8, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 102 at Alumni Hall (618 University Avenue). To view the 2025-2026 calendar of Senate meetings or documents for the upcoming meeting, click here. (Posted one week before the meeting)

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. 

Are you trying to find some dedicated time to finish a writing project that needs focused attention? Time to Write retreats offer concentrated time to support your writing efforts and can be instrumental in the initiation or completion of scholarly work such as an article, book or book chapter, grant proposal, curriculum or OER development, conference presentations, or other scholarly, creative projects.  

Time to work on writing projects away from home and campus for a few days can be incredibly productive. Participation in a writing retreat with colleagues at various stages of their career not only provides quiet, focused writing time away from teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities, but it also offers mentorship and networking opportunities with colleagues from a range of disciplines. The retreat provides an opportunity to develop a supportive writing group with colleagues from across campus and join group discussions on writing and publishing. Research on relational approaches to scholarly writing retreats like our Time to Write Retreats has demonstrated many benefits (Ahern-Dodson, 2025).  

A Time to Write retreat will be offered from Monday, June 15, to Thursday, June 18, at the North Rustico Cottages in North Rustico.   

Participants must have a project (e.g., grant application, research publication) at a stage where sustained writing time makes sense with background research and/or data collection and analysis completed to the point that they are ready to write. Participants must be prepared to commit to the full program, a total of 3 days focused on writing and contribute $300. The retreat is open to faculty (term and sessional faculty are encouraged to apply) and librarians in any academic unit at UPEI. Interested participants will email an expression of interest consisting of a summary of the project they plan to work on and their writing goals for the retreat to TLC@upei.ca by 12:00 noon on Friday, May 15, 2026. Up to six participants will be accepted for this Time to Write retreat. 

The University’s operating budget for the 2026–2027 fiscal year was approved at the UPEI Board of Governors' last meeting. Read the UPEI news release 

Tim Walker, Vice-President, Finance and Administration, and Dr. Wendy Rodgers, President and Vice-Chancellor, invite you to the

UPEI Budget 2026–2027 Information Session
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 
Amphitheatre, Performing Arts Centre and Residence building (PAC121S)  
3:00 pm

If you are unable to participate in person, you are welcome to join us virtually at this Teams Town Hall link. 

The 2026–2027 UPEI Operating Budget may be found on the publications page of the UPEI website. 

We have heard your request for more opportunities to share ideas, suggestions, and feedback about how we can continue to strengthen our University community.

To help create a direct and accessible way for members of the campus community to contribute, we are pleased to introduce a new email address: ideas@upei.ca

This inbox is intended to be a space where students, faculty, and staff can share ideas that could help improve campus culture, enhance the student and employee experience, and support positive change across the University of Prince Edward Island.

We know that some of the best ideas come from those who learn, teach, work, and engage on our campus every day. Your perspectives are valuable, and we encourage you to use this new channel to share your thoughts on ways we can continue to grow and improve together.

Whether your suggestion is big or small, we welcome your input and look forward to hearing from you.

Today, April 30, is the final day of access to RefWorks for users at UPEI.

If you have not exported your data, you should do so today.

Help is available from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm in-person at Robertson Library and online via Teams. You can also e-mail reference@upei.ca with questions.

For more information, including export and migration tutorials, visit https://libraryupei.ca/end-of-refworks

Due to the Confederation Bridge resurfacing project, Fedex has informed us that they will be changing our pickup time for outgoing packages.  From May 1 to June 30, they will be picking up at 1 pm instead of 2:15 pm.  We will need your outgoing packages no later than 11:30 am to ensure same day processing. Sorry for the inconvenience.  If you have any questions, please contact us at shipping@upei.ca. 

The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new and improved version of the online training course entitled Preventing Sexualized Violence at UPEI for Staff & Faculty. All new staff will be required to complete this training as part of their onboarding process.  Human Resources has built this requirement into regular onboarding processes.  

In this course, learners are guided through lessons on sexual violence prevention, covering topics like consent, the role of power, the impacts of trauma, how to interrupt harm when we see it, how to respond to a disclosure of sexual violence in trauma-informed ways, and understanding available services and applicable policies at UPEI.

As we move forward as a community, confirming our ongoing commitment to safety, equity, and inclusion on campus, please remember that SVPRO is here to help and to provide support and training opportunities. You can contact us at sv-pro@upei.ca or 902-620-5090 or by visiting us at 115-118 Kelley Memorial Building.  

Please be advised that Student Services and Supports (including Counselling Services, Academic Support Services, Student Culture and Community Standards, Accessibility Services, Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship and Experiential Education), will be closed on Tuesday, May 5.

Any emergencies that day can be directed to Megan MacLean via Teams chat or phone. 

The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications, including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments, is Friday, May 1, 2026. These applications will be reviewed at the May 21 meeting.

All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the UPEI researcher portal https://upei.researchservicesoffice.com/Romeo.Researcher/. Instructions for using the researcher portal, are available at https://www.upei.ca/research-services/forms.

Please contact the Research Compliance Coordinator at researchcompliance@upei.ca if you have any questions about accessing or using the researcher portal, or about the biosafety application, review, and approval process.

The Faculty of Education invites members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff--to attend a public presentation by Tara-Lynn Rioux Germain, a candidate for a three-year position in Indigenous Education. The presentation takes place from 9:00 to 10:00 am on May 5 in Memorial Hall 417. A Teams link is available for those wishing to attend online (Meeting ID: 227 941 500 684 440 / Passcode: cF9rW7gM)

For further information, contact Karen-Anne O’Halloran.

Because of the generous support of many to "Love our Library"—the Robertson Library Revitalization Campaign, we are thrilled to announce that phase one renovations will officially begin on Monday, May 4, 2026, and continue through the second half of August.

To mark this significant occasion, you are warmly invited to attend a special kick-off event on Friday, May 1, at 10:00 am in the Robertson Library lobby to celebrate the beginning of renovations.

To learn how the Library will function during the renovation period, visit https://libraryupei.ca/renovations-2026