Campus Notices
Student Affairs will be closed for all services on Monday, December 18; however, exam pick up will be available.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
For faculty, staff and students who make special orders for their discounted pet food at the Atlantic Veterinary College, the last day to order will be Monday 18th December, 4.30pm. Contact Gina Mortimer.
Student Affairs is beginning to organize UPEI’s Mental Health Week 2018 and we are seeking interested students, staff and faculty to join the planning committee.
As in past years, we hope to have a variety of people on the committee in order to reach the many areas of the UPEI community. Committee work will entail approximately 6 meetings between January 10 and March 7 in preparation for Mental Health Week scheduled for March 12 - 16, 2018. The planning committee will be responsible for brainstorming ideas to showcase the theme "Relationships Matter", setting the schedule and making the necessary contacts and bookings.
If you are interested, please email me (Anne Bartlett, ambartlett@upei.ca) and I will add you to our committee contact list. If you know of someone who would be interested and would represent your area well, please forward this message to them. Should you have any questions or require further information, please contact either Keith Lawlor (kjlawlor@upei.ca) or Anne Bartlett (ambartlett@upei.ca), co-chairs, MHW 2018.
Our first meeting will be held Wednesday, January 10, 8:30am - 9:30am in MH 215. Should you not be able to make it but would like to receive the minutes, please let us know.
The holiday schedule for specific departments, and the pay dates/deadline changes for the month of December have been posted to myUPEI.
Click here to login and access a PDF with the detailed infromation.
Since UPEI has switched to using myUPEI, grades are submitted through Moodle. The E-Learning Office has made some slide and video tutorials that are available at this link: https://moodle31.upei.ca/course/view.php?id=133
If you need help sending in final grades, there is a workshop on December 19th at 10. You can register for the workshop here.
If you cannot attend the workshop, or need immediate assistance, please contact moodle@upei.ca
The Office of Recruitment and International Relations is presently accepting submissions from students, faculty and staff for our winter 2017/2018 newsletter. We are looking for photos, stories, and other items of interest to international students and the campus community. All questions and submissions can be sent to Richelle Greathouse rgreathouse@upei.ca.
For faculty, staff and students who make special orders for their discounted pet food at the Atlantic Veterinary College, the last day to order will be Monday 18th December, 4
Student Affairs is beginning to organize UPEI’s Mental Health Week 2018 and we are seeking interested students, staff and faculty to join the planning committee.
As in past years, we hope to have a variety of people on the committee in order to reach the many areas of the UPEI community. Committee work will entail approximately 6 meetings between January 10 and March 7 in preparation for Mental Health Week scheduled for March 12 - 16, 2018. The planning committee will be responsible for brainstorming ideas to showcase the theme "Relationships Matter", setting the schedule and making the necessary contacts and bookings.
If you are interested, please email me (Anne Bartlett, ambartlett@upei.ca) and I will add you to our committee contact list. If you know of someone who would be interested and would represent your area well, please forward this message to them. Should you have any questions or require further information, please contact either Keith Lawlor (kjlawlor@upei.ca) or Anne Bartlett (ambartlett@upei.ca), co-chairs, MHW 2018.
Our first meeting will be held Wednesday, January 10, 8:30am - 9:30am in MH 215. Should you not be able to make it but would like to receive the minutes, please let us know.
Thanks
Anne and Keith
President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz invites you to attend the 2017 President’s Holiday Social for Faculty and Staff on Thursday, December 14 from 2-4 pm at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering in the SDU Class of 1954 Lecture Hall.
Celebrate with your colleagues at this special time of year! Enjoy complimentary appetizers and refreshments while listening to students from the UPEI Brass Quintet perform songs of the season.
You are encouraged to bring your food and monetary donations for the UPEI Food Bank—the Office of the President will match your support!
It’s that time of year again! As our calendar year comes to an end Human Resources is working on year-end preparations. Here are a couple of changes to note:
1. The 2017 Federal Budget introduced measures that enable employers to issue T4 slips to employees electronically for 2017 and subsequent taxation years. In prior years, electronic T4s were only issued to employees who requested one. This change has significant benefits to employees and the University:
- Immediate Access Anywhere
- Increased Security
- Reduced Carbon Footprint
Employees' 2017 T4 will be available on campus login prior to February 28, 2018. If an employee requires assistance accessing their electronic T4 or would like a printed copy please contact us at payroll@upei.ca.
2. New 2018 Federal and Provincial Personal Tax Credits Return (TD1) forms have been released by the Canada Revenue Agency. If employees are claiming any additional tax credits on either their Federal or Provincial TD1 forms please submit updated forms to Human Resources as soon as possible. Please see the link to the updated forms on our HR Portal:
3. New address change form located in MyUPEI. All employees should review their current address on file in campus login. If there are any changes, please see the address change form on the right hand side of the MyUPEI home page (under UPEI Forms). Please see the link to the new form:
Courses starting in January are available on Moodle now. Students will be added to the course two weeks prior to the official start date of the course but will not be able to view the course until after the course has been made visible (instructions for opening your course for students can be found here.
If you do not have access to your 2018W courses yet, please make sure you are listed as the instructor on the official UPEI timetable for that course. If you are having any issues, or have any questions, please contact moodle@upei.ca.
The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Jordan Stevenson, Masters student, will be defending his thesis entitled APPLICATION OF ONODISPERSED PEGS IN SURFACTANT MOLECULES. The event begins at 1:00 pm, December 12, in room 104 of UPEI's KC Irving Chemistry Centre.
Student Affairs will be closed for all services on Monday, December 18; however, exam pick up will be available.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
The Faculty of Science wishes to announce Jordan Stevenson, Masters student, will be defending his thesis entitled APPLICATION OF ONODISPERSED PEGS IN SURFACTANT MOLECULES. The event begins at 1:00 pm, December 12, in room 104 of UPEI's KC Irving Chemistry Centre.
Since UPEI has switched to using myUPEI, grades are submitted through Moodle. The E-Learning Office has made some slide and video tutorials that are available at this link.
If you need help sending in final grades, there is a workshop on December 19th at 10. You can register for the workshop here.
If you cannot attend the workshop, or need immediate assistance, please contact moodle@upei.ca
If you need help sending in final grades, there is a workshop tomorrow December 14th at 11am, and one following exams on December 19th at 10. You can register for the workshop here.
A webinar on using social presence to establish a community of inquiry in an online space. La Dawna Minnis and Jason Hogan will be discussing how social presence plays an important role in face-to-face, blended, and online courses and going through examples for introducing and developing social presence in online environments. The webinar will be run online through YouTube Live and you're welcome to participate in the synchronous chat box using your @UPEI.ca or @Gmail.com accounts, a recording of the session will be posted on the E-Learning Blog following the session.
The session will take place December 14th at 6pm, register here for a calendar invite and an email copy of the link to the session
The Faculty Association Office will be closed from Monday December 18th to Tuesday January 2nd inclusive. The office will reopen on Wednesday January 3, 2018. For urgent matters during this time, please contact the FA President, Nola Etkin at netkin@upeifa.org.
Tuition Waiver forms for the Winter 2018 semester must be submitted to Human Resources by no later than December 19, 2017. When completing the form, please include all of the required information (Course name, time, start and end date, cost and the number of semester hours) to avoid any delays in processing the waiver. Please submit original forms directly to Human Resources (lower level Kelley building, room #143).
Click one of the following to access the tutition waiver form:
If you have any questions please contact Heather Walsh at: (902) 566-0514 or hwalsh@upei.ca.
It’s that time of year again! As our calendar year comes to an end Human Resources is working on year-end preparations. Here are a couple of changes to note:
1. The 2017 Federal Budget introduced measures that enable employers to issue T4 slips to employees electronically for 2017 and subsequent taxation years. In prior years, electronic T4s were only issued to employees who requested one. This change has significant benefits to employees and the University:
- Immediate Access Anywhere
- Increased Security
- Reduced Carbon Footprint
Employees' 2017 T4 will be available on campus login prior to February 28, 2018. If an employee requires assistance accessing their electronic T4 or would like a printed copy please contact us at payroll@upei.ca.
2. New 2018 Federal and Provincial Personal Tax Credits Return (TD1) forms have been released by the Canada Revenue Agency. If employees are claiming any additional tax credits on either their Federal or Provincial TD1 forms please submit updated forms to Human Resources as soon as possible. Please see the link to the updated forms on our HR Portal:
3. New address change form located in MyUPEI. All employees should review their current address on file in campus login. If there are any changes, please see the address change form on the right hand side of the MyUPEI home page (under UPEI Forms). Please see the link to the new form:
The Challenge is an eight-week team building challenge for UPEI students, staff and faculty. Participants engage in various weekly activities to fill the four 'chambers' of our heart. Teams collect points each week by participating in activities. The Challenge is from January 15 - March 11, 2018. Deadline for team registration is Thursday, January 11, 2018. More details on dates/topics for each week will be provided in January to registered teams. Please visit here for a registration form.
