Thriving vs. Surviving Event Series: Navigating the Challenges of Grad School (Winter 2023)

This event series will provide tips and strategies on managing common challenges grad students experience during their studies. All are welcome to attend. Registration with PMC is not essential for participation in this event series. We kindly ask you to review our meeting guidelines before attending.

Coping with Multiple Commitments in Graduate School: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Registration is free for all sessions but required to attend. If you would like a copy of the presentations after the event, have any questions about the event series or missed the registration deadline, please contact Laura at laurahnatiw@cunet.carleton.ca.

Draft Self-Identification Survey Student Feedback

All Carleton students are invited to give their feedback on a Draft Self-Identification Survey.

Carleton University’s success, now and into the future, must be built upon the best information, evidence and data available about the experience of all our students, faculty and staff through the lens of equity, inclusion and Indigenous ways of knowing and learning. To support this goal, one of the first priorities determined in the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan is the need to internally collect disaggregated demographic data for all students, faculty and staff. This data will be anonymized and used to help inform equity-driven programs and projects campus-wide.

This is a chance to voice your opinions about how you want to be counted on campus. The Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities (EIC) invites students to provide feedback on the Draft Self-Identification Survey before the survey goes live in fall 2023.

You can provide your thoughts online through the online feedback portal until Sunday, April 30, 2023.

Alternatively, if you’re part of a student group that falls under one of the designated groups listed on the website and you have yet to confirm your closed consultation session with EIC, email mailto:RashedaGillis@cunet.carleton.ca before the end of March.

For more information, please check out the main Draft Self-Identification website.

DATES & DEADLINES

March 10, 2023
Last day to withdraw from late winter term courses with a full fee adjustment. Withdrawals after this date will result in a permanent notation of WDN on the official transcript.

March 15, 2023

• Last day for academic withdrawal from full winter, late winter and fall/winter courses.
• Last day to request Formal Examination Accommodation Forms for April full winter, late winter, and fall/winter final examinations to the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities. Note that it may not be possible to fulfil accommodation requests received after the specified deadlines.

March 17-19, 2023
Early winter undergraduate deferred final examinations will be held.

For a complete list of all official academic and financial dates and deadlines, please go to the Registrar’s website. For all financial matters, go to Student Accounts.

TA Hub Info

Grading Made Easy: Final Marking Prep Workshop on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
This workshop will offer tips on time management, organization, providing feedback, and answer any of your questions and concerns. Open to all TAs, but with a particular focus on grading written assignments. Register on Carleton Central.

Winter 2023 Pedagogical Training Deadline - March 30
March 30, 2023 is the last day to complete any winter pedagogical training hours. Reminder: this is voluntary and full-time graduate TAs are eligible for up to five hours of pedagogical hours of pay per year. Click here for more information.

2022-2023 Outstanding TA Awards!
The TLS Outstanding TA Award is a university-wide award open to all faculties, and is designed to recognize teaching excellence among Carleton’s teaching assistants (TAs). This award celebrates the support TAs give to the undergraduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment, and their work in implementing innovative teaching practices. In addition to a certificate and formal recognition on a plaque on the fourth floor of Dunton Tower, up to five awards valued at $250 will be given out each year. The nomination deadline is Monday, April 3, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.  

International Student Services Office Events

How to Read Your Academic Audit Workshop
March 14, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.
https://carleton.ca/isso/cu-events/how-to-read-your-academic-audit-workshop-march-14-2023/

Global Café
March 15, 2023 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
https://carleton.ca/isso/cu-events/global-cafe-12/

Museum Visit with ISSO
March 16, 2023 at 4 p.m. to Ottawa Art Gallery
https://carleton.ca/isso/new-students/museum-visits-with-the-isso/

Fourth Annual Kinàmàgawin Symposium

The Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement is excited to announce that registration for the fourth annual Kinàmàgawin Symposium is now open.

This free event will take place in person at Richcraft Hall on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The theme, chosen by our Indigenous Student Planning Team is Accessing the Academy: A Four Direction Approach. Read more about our keynote presenters here. This event will also have the support of the SLIAO Interpreter.

Writing Support by CSAS

Join the Centre for Student Academic Support (CSAS) this Winter 2023 term for their Academic Writing for English Language Learners sessions on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pick and choose the session that works for you or join all of them! Next session on March 15, 2023 will focus on clause combinations. Sessions are available both virtually and in person at 402 MacOdrum Library. For questions, email: csas@carleton.ca

Data Day at Carleton!

On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 the Faculty of Science and Carleton University Institute for Data Science will host the university’s ninth annual celebration of all things data, Data Day 9.0: The Data-Driven Economy.

This full-day event will include plenary sessions, a graduate student poster competition, and networking opportunities.

Data Day 9.0 will bring together experts from government, academia and industry to explore the latest developments in data science.

Registration for Data Day 9.0 is now available on our website and is open to the public. Please direct any questions about the event to mailto:odscomms@carleton.ca. 

Carleton's Annual Tax Clinic is Free and Open to Students!

Worried about filing your taxes this year? Don't be! The Sprott Tax Students' Association (STSA) is here to help with their annual tax clinic. 

To file your taxes with the tax clinic, you must first fill out the tax clinic's client intake form. Once you fill out this form, STSA's tax clinic team will review it to determine the complexity of your tax return and whether it is within the scope of the tax clinic. You will receive an email indicating whether your tax return is simple enough to be filed with the tax clinic and you will then be given a link to book an appointment. Note: all appointments at the tax clinic will be held between March 20 and March 24, 2023, in person.

Note: All tax returns are filed at no cost. The tax clinic is run as a free community service.

Institute of African Studies Celebrates New Home in Dunton Tower

On Feb. 17, Carleton’s Institute of African Studies (IAS) welcomed faculty members, students and members of the university and broader Ottawa communities to celebrate a landmark moment.

The launch event — which featured live music from the Institute’s own Instructor Kathy Armstrong and was attended by several High Commissioners of African countries in Canada — marked the official opening of the IAS’s new home on the 17th floor of Dunton Tower, as well as the inauguration of two important spaces: the Pius Adesanmi African Studies Resource Centre and African Studies Student Lounge.