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Please be advised that parking will not be available at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market from Saturday, November 22 at 3:00 pm until Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 pm.

Any vehicles parked on the premises during this time will be towed at the owner’s expense. This closure is necessary to complete scheduled maintenance work in the parking lot.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The Master of Arts in Island Studies program invites you to attend the thesis defence for Padmini Dambugolla's research entitled "Examining the role of social networks, collaboration, and islandness in the entrepreneurial success of businesswomen at the Charlottetown Farmers' Market." Everyone is welcome!

Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10:00 am

Memorial Hall, Room 104

We are excited to invite 17³Ô¹Ï alumni and friends back to Mill River Resort for the third annual outdoor winter family fun day on Saturday, January 24, 2026.

Our friends at Mill River Resort are offering 17³Ô¹Ï Alumni a 20% discount on individual and family outdoor activity day passes and equipment rentals. Your pass enables you to enjoy all the outdoor activities at Mill River and includes tube, snowshoe, and cross-country ski rentals. Guests must bring their own skates. Discounted passes can be purchased from the Pro Shop beginning at 9:00 am or when you arrive at the resort.

Join us for an end-of-day campfire with complimentary s'mores, hot chocolate and an alumni gift beginning at 3:00 pm.

If you would like to make it a weekend getaway, Mill River is offering standard rooms (two queen beds) for just $195+ tax. This is $74 off regular rates, available for the nights of January 23 and 24 only. To take advantage of this special rate, please call Mill River Resort directly at 1-844-375-3555 and mention that you are part of the 17³Ô¹Ï alumni group. This rate is based on room availability. Please book your room by Sunday, December 14, 2025. 

Please use to let us know that you're coming - so we can order an appropriate amount of hot chocolate and s'mores and to keep you informed if anything changes. 

The next deadline for submitting biosafety applications, including new applications, renewals, and/or amendments, is Friday, November 28, 2025. These applications will be reviewed at the December 18 meeting.

All research compliance applications, including biosafety application forms, must be submitted through the 17³Ô¹Ï researcher portal. Information about the researcher portal, including instructions for using the site, is available at /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 third meeting of the 17³Ô¹Ï Senate will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025, 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 17³Ô¹Ï community who wish to attend the open session of a 17³Ô¹Ï 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. 

What if selling wasn’t about pitching, but about asking the right questions at the right time? In this talk, students will explore proven sales methodologies, learn how to design a prospecting process, and discover how curiosity can be the most powerful tool in building lasting business relationships. The Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship invites you to join our biweekly speaker series. We are pleased to have Jonny Stevens, Fractional Chief Growth Officer of Growth Champions Consulting, joining us to talk about the art of selling!  

More about the speaker: Dr. Jonny Stevens is a transformational leader specializing in business growth and change management, now driving growth for entrepreneurs and organizations through Growth Champions Consulting. Based in Charlottetown, PEI, and serving clients across Canada, Jonny has a proven track record of scaling businesses across diverse sectors, including national marketing agencies, member associations, AI companies, and global professional services firms.

Interested in attending the session?

Monday November 24, 2025, 12:00 pm, Catherine Callbeck Centre for Entrepreneurship, 201 Robertson Library

The Financial Web Advisor platform (requisitions, request for payments, approvals) is no longer supported, and this functionality will now be available within Self Service. The Self Service platform is currently used to view general ledger accounts and budgets, as well as projects.

The following information sessions are available to attend, which will provide a general overview of the changes:

• Navigation of Self Service 
• Self Service Procurement Module:
  • Requisition for Goods and Services 
  • Payment Request 
• Introduction to the new Finance Query functionality 
  • New tool to query summary and detail GL account data 

Friday, November 21, 1:30–2:30 pm: Teams Session 

Monday, November 24, 10:30–11:30 am: In-Person Session, AVC 218S Computer Lab

This in-person session can accommodate up to 36 participants. Please register for this session here:

SPECIAL PRICE: For the following end-of-term large ensemble concerts, attend all 3 for the price of 2 â€” this special package price and individual tickets are available in advance at  or by cash at the door. Individual concert tickets are $20 for adults; FREE for all 17³Ô¹Ï students with a valid ID card.

Thursday, November 27 – 17³Ô¹Ï Wind Symphony

The 17³Ô¹Ï Wind Symphony presents ‘Reflections’, a varied program of works that explore feelings of home, memories of people and places, portrayals of the natural environment, and even the characterization of a video game plot!

• 7:30 pm – Performing Arts Centre and Residence Amphitheatre, PAC121S

Tuesday, December 2 – 17³Ô¹Ï Jazz Ensemble

The 17³Ô¹Ï Jazz Ensemble will present an evening of big band jazz music. Numerous 17³Ô¹Ï Music majors will showcase their ensemble and solo talents in this show, which will include charts in the style of mambo, samba, funk, swing, and ballads.

• 7:30 pm – SDU Stage at Steel Recital Hall

Friday, December 5 – 17³Ô¹Ï Choral Concert

This choral spectacular will include heartwarming choral works, selections from Handel’s Messiah, and other seasonal gems, performed by the 17³Ô¹Ï Concert Choir, 17³Ô¹Ï Chamber Singers, soloists from the voice studios, alumni, and Le Ragazze Vocal Ensemble.

• 7:30 pm – SDU Stage at Steel Recital Hall

The Faculty of Science Environmental Sciences / Human Biology Seminar Series invites the campus community to a presentation by Dr. Joseph Gordon (Biomedical Sciences and Faculty of Medicine) entitled "Integrating mitochondrial quality control and cell signaling pathways during metabolic disease". Everyone is invited.

November 21, 2025, 12:30 pm

Duffy Science Centre, Room 204

17³Ô¹Ï faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate in CBC Maritime Noon’s live show at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, St. Peter’s Bay, on Thursday, November 20, from noon to 1 pm.

Maritime Noon host Bob Murphy will ask the question: How do we tackle climate change while trying to rebuild the economy? Panelists will be Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, associate dean, 17³Ô¹Ï School of Climate Change and Adaptation, and Dr. Xander Wang, professor, 17³Ô¹Ï School of Climate Change and Adaptation, and director of the 17³Ô¹Ï Climate Smart Lab and NSERC CREATE–CLImate Smart Agriculture (CLISA) Network.

Also being interviewed will be Donald Killorn, executive director of the PEI Federation of Agriculture, and Heather Laiskonis, executive director of the PEI Watershed Alliance.

You are welcome to contribute your questions and thoughts in person at the CCCCA, by calling the show at 1-800-565-1940, or by emailing marnoon@cbc.ca

Learn more about the live show at .

Join us this Giving Tuesday and make your gift count for 17³Ô¹Ï students!

Every donation, big or small, directly supports scholarships, programs, and opportunities that empower the next generation of leaders. Help 17³Ô¹Ï students thrive - .

You may choose to direct your gift to an area that resonates most with you, or you can make an unrestricted gift that will go toward the areas of greatest need, supporting students on their path to success. 

A gift to 17³Ô¹Ï this Giving Tuesday is an investment in student success and wellbeing. Your generosity touches nearly every corner of campus life and ensures that students have access to the resources and opportunities they need to achieve their goals.

Let's come together, donate, and support 17³Ô¹Ï students.

Visit 17³Ô¹Ï Giving Tuesday and see how your donation can support today's students.

Your gift. Their future. Our 17³Ô¹Ï.

Ways to participate:

For employee payroll deductions, please contact Tammy Pigott, Gift Processor at tpigott@upei.ca
Call: 902-894-2888
In Person: 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown

Giving Tuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering that takes place each year after Black Friday. To learn more about Giving Tuesday, visit .

Mootimeter is a live-polling tool inspired by Mentimeter, the tool has recently been added to our Moodle at 17³Ô¹Ï. This session will go over how to setup and use the tool. This Lunch and Learn will take place in the 17³Ô¹Ï Teaching and Learning Centre located in the Robertson Library Annex (RL 230) on November 27 at 12:30 pm. . 

The campus community is invited to the next session of the fall Faculty of Arts colloquium and speaker series -- ConneXions. The speakers this week are two new Faculty of Arts colleagues, who will informally explore one of the provocative questions that motivates their teaching and research. Dr. Andrew Halliday will contemplate "Is Prince Edward Island actually an island?" and Dr. Jennifer Bradley will explore "Where are the third spaces these days?" 

Friday, November 21, from 1:00-2:00pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 420

Everyone welcome!  

Academics Without Borders / Universitaires San Frontières is seeking 4-6 volunteers (from within its Network partners--17³Ô¹Ï is a member of the Network) to act as facilitators for an online teaching in higher education (OTHE) program, run in conjunction with Aga Khan University. See for more complete details about this opportunity. The deadline for applications is December 12, 2025. For more information, contact Ann Braithwaite, abraithwaite@upei.ca, a member of the AWB / USF Board, or Corrie Young, Associate Executive Director of AWB / USF, at cyoung@awb-usf.org

To help launch our new strategic plan, we hope you will join us at the town hall:

• Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, at 2:30 pm
• Performing Arts Centre and Residence amphitheatre (PAC 121S). 

If you are unable to attend in-person, you can .

The 17³Ô¹ÏSU Winter Clothing Drive is happening on Tuesday, November 25, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre!

Students can select what they need to stay warm during the colder months, including winter jackets, sweaters, scarves, gloves, and more. 

We are also putting a call out to our campus community. If you are able, please consider donating gently used winter items to the 17³Ô¹ÏSU Office between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm until Friday, November 21.

Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Please be advised that parking will not be available at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market from Saturday, November 22 at 3:00 pm until Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 pm.

Any vehicles parked on the premises during this time will be towed at the owner’s expense. This closure is necessary to complete scheduled maintenance work in the parking lot.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The 17³Ô¹Ï Writing Centre (Robertson Library 274) will close for the exam period and the holidays at 2 pm on Thursday, December 4. 

We still have appointments available. To book, please visit

The Master of Arts in Island Studies program invites you to attend the thesis defence for Padmini Dambugolla's research entitled "Examining the role of social networks, collaboration, and islandness in the entrepreneurial success of businesswomen at the Charlottetown Farmers' Market." Everyone is welcome!

Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10:00 am

Memorial Hall, Room 104

Thanks to the fantastic response to the Recognizing Remarkable Colleagues program, submissions are being shared the following month, spread over several editions of the weekly e-newsletter. For example, you will see the September submissions appear in October issues.  

This initiative is a great way to share words of appreciation for 17³Ô¹Ï faculty and staff across campus. Let’s celebrate the big and small wins that make our campus shine! 

Please submit your form(s) by the last Friday of each month (the next deadline is November 28, 2025). Human Resources will collect the submissions and work with 17³Ô¹Ï Communications to feature them in the Campus Connector. 

How to submit:  Complete this short form:  &²Ô²ú²õ±è;
You’ll be asked to share: &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Who are you recognizing? (Name and department/faculty) &²Ô²ú²õ±è;
• Why are you recognizing them? (Briefly describe what they did or the impact they made) &²Ô²ú²õ±è;
• Your name  &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

You can also visit the to view all past issues. 

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at hrengage@upei.ca.