Brightspace Update: Support for the Winter

As the winter term gets underway, visit the Brightspace Student Support website. This resource is available directly within your course under the Help menu in the Brightspace navbar. On the site, you can find instructions for basic course tasks such as changing notification settings, using the Brightspace Pulse app, submitting assignments and viewing grades. The site is a great starting point for technical questions.

Check out the Brightspace Student Channel in Mediaspace and reach out for support. D2L provides on-demand technical support 24/7 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year via email, chat and phone. For assistance with email, network or login issues, please contact the ITS Service Desk.

Mental Health Supports

We have many services and resources in place to help you understand, manage and improve your mental health and wellness while at university. The best place to start is to check out our Wellness Services Navigator. This anonymous site is designed to help find you available mental health and wellness resources.

Magda Georgescu is a counsellor with Carleton’s Health and Counselling Services who is focused on helping graduate students. To make an appointment with Magda, please call the office at 613-520-6674. Once you call, you will speak with a Patient Care Coordinator who will send you an intake and consent form that needs to be completed before speaking with an Intake Counsellor. This intake session can also take place in person at the clinic, if that is your preference, and then you will be able to meet with Magda.

Another good tool to check out is our Resource Guide. This guide is meant to be flexible and offer support and guidance in tandem with the resources mentioned above.

Dates & Deadlines:

January 13, 2023
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) in early winter courses.

January 16, 2023
OSAP deferral deadline. Late payment charges and late registration charges applied to the student account on or after this date for eligible OSAP students.

January 20, 2023
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) in full winter and late winter courses. Last day to withdraw from early winter courses with a full fee adjustment. Withdrawals after this date will result in a permanent notation of WDN on the official transcript.

Graduate students who have not electronically submitted their final thesis copy to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs will not be eligible to graduate in winter 2023 and must register for the winter 2023 term.
 

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.

Winter Career Fair - January 25

The Virtual Winter Career Fair will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.

This event will give you the opportunity to chat with recruiters and professionals. Meetings will take place as speed-networking-style conversations (about 10 minutes). Explore full-time, part-time, summer, and co-op opportunities and browse current job openings.

Psychology Wellness Centre is Open

The Psychology Wellness Centre is a virtual centre staffed by psychology graduate students who are trained peer wellness coaches. If you looking for non-urgent assistance with goal-setting, time-management, support to improve wellness goals, and information on other available wellness services at Carleton please complete the request form to meet with a peer wellness coach.

MeWeRTH Events

1. The Lived Experience Luncheon Webinar will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. 

2. The Department of Psychology and MeWeRTH are co-hosting the Let's Talk Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The keynote address titled, "Understanding Addictions and Co-Occurring Mental Health Through a Transdiagnostic Lens: Clinical Implications and Future Directions" will be given by Professor Andrew Kim. 

Richard Van Loon Scholarship

The Richard Van Loon Scholarship has been created to reward an outstanding international student from an African country. Eligible recipients must be a full-time student proceeding from one year to another in any program at Carleton University with a valid study permit. Consideration will be given to students in financial need. Deadline to apply is Feb. 1, 2023. More details and the application form can be found here.

Zoom Minimum Version Update

Carleton Zoom users are required to update their Zoom desktop client and mobile apps to the latest version. The first time you open Zoom after Jan. 4,  you will be prompted to make the update. If you haven’t already done so, you can also set automatic updates for your desktop client to avoid manual updates in the future.

To find out what’s new with Carleton ‘s Zoom settings, visit our What’s New with Zoom page. If you have any questions, please reach out through the TLS Support Portal.

FGPA Offers Professional Development

As a graduate student at Carleton, you have access to a wide range of professional development resources, including transferable-skills workshops, writing and career consultations, public engagement competitions, and alumni interviews. We’ll help you establish your career narrative, so that you can enter the job market with confidence. For more information, visit the Graduate Professional Development website.

Library Services Available

Did you know the MacOdrum Library provides a statistical consulting service to help students with their questions regarding quantitative data? Click here for details.

To book a study space set aside for graduate students, please click here.

The library has many services for graduate students. Please click here to view the comprehensive list.

SSHRC Storytellers Contest is Now Open to Apply!

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers 2023 contest is on! The deadline to submit is Jan. 30, 2023. Details, including rules, eligibility criteria, and prize descriptions, are available here. FGPA is offering one-on-one consultations to grad students who would like more information or feedback on their submission ideas. To request a consultation, email karim.abuawad@carleton.ca

Accessible Career Transitions

Accessible Career Transitions (ACT) is a program out of Career Services that provides highly-individualized career support to Carleton students and alumni who identify with having a disability. The ACT program has two services: ACT Advising, to assist students and alumni with career readiness skills (resume building, interview skills, networking, and more) and ACT to Employ, which provides opportunities for students and new grads to participate in paid work experiences. ACT staff are available to assist Carleton Ravens at any level of their education, and after graduation. 

Free Mitacs Training Courses for Grad Students

Mitacs invites grad students and post-doctoral fellows to register for their free facilitated sessions between January and March 2023. 

To register, students need to create an account or log into their learning management system EDGE. 

Find more about each course bundle on Mitacs' website: Mitacs Training and Training Courses.

For any questions, please contact: training@mitacs.ca.  

Looking for Abstracts for the 2023 Underhill Colloquium!

This year’s theme is History in Conversation: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity.  Our objective is to promote emerging historical research by MA and PhD students in all disciplines. The virtual colloquium will be held on March 17, 2023, and feature graduate student work that explores the notion of history in conversation – how historians and scholars in other fields are working together, both directly and indirectly, to expand our historical understandings.

Submit your abstracts to underhillcolloquium@cunet.carleton.ca by Jan. 20, 2023.