Suden Suppor Services guide for faculy and saff Your guide o supporing Carleon Universiy graduae and undergraduae sudens
Suden Suppor Services Guide for Faculy and Saff your guide o supporing carleon universiy sudens Sudens and faculy inerac every day a Carleon Universiy; from classroom learning, o ineracions in laboraories, o one-on-one suppor and encouragemen. In fac, suden and faculy engagemen is cenral o an ousanding universiy experience for our sudens. The Office of he Associae Vice-Presiden (Sudens and Enrolmen) suppors a full range of suden experiences. Ensuring boh our undergraduae and graduae sudens are successful during heir ime here a Carleon is everyone s responsibiliy. The mission is o promoe suden developmen and learning, enhance he suden experience, and conribue o he creaion of an environmen for success a Carleon and afer graduaion. To his end, we have creaed his handbook as a resource for faculy and saff o suppor you in your effors o suppor sudens. Please le us know wha you hink abou his handbook. We are commied o improving he effeciveness of his resource and invie your commens. Sincerely, Suzanne Blanchard Associae Vice-Presiden (Sudens and Enrolmen) Universiy Regisrar
Table of Conens 2 Office of he Associae Vice-Presiden (Sudens and Enrolmen) 4 Awards & Financial Aid 6 Co-op and Career Services 8 Healh & Counselling Services 10 Inernaional Suden Services Office 12 Paul Menon Cenre for Sudens wih Disabiliies 14 Suden Academic Success Cenre 16 Suden Affairs 18 Suden Experience Office 19 Undergraduae Recruimen Office and Admissions Services 20 Universiy Regisrar s Office 21 Faculy of Graduae and Posdocoral Affairs 22 Oher Services 23 OAVP (SE) Quick Reference
Office of he Associae Vice-Presiden (Sudens and Enrolmen) 420 Tory Building 613-520-2874 carleon.ca/sudensuppor The Office of he Associae Vice-Presiden (Sudens and Enrolmen) (OAVP SE), works wih sudens, faculy, universiy adminisraion, and suden governmen o enhance he universiy experience for all Carleon Universiy sudens. The Office provides comprehensive suppor for sudens from heir firs poin of conac wih he universiy hrough o graduaion. Togeher our offices provide programs and services o recrui sudens, suppor sudens hrough he applicaion and admission process, promoe suden developmen and learning, enhance he suden experience a Carleon Universiy and conribue o he creaion of an environmen for suden success. This environmen is one in which sudens are engaged in heir academic pursuis and he exracurricular life of he universiy, enabling hem o succeed in heir sudies, graduae and go on o meaningful and producive pos universiy experiences. The following deparmens/services all repor o he OAVP (SE): Awards and Financial Aid Co-op and Career Services Healh & Counselling Services Inernaional Suden Services Office (repors o Suden Affairs) Paul Menon Cenre for Sudens wih Disabiliies Suden Academic Success Cenre (including Learning Suppor Services, Peer Assised Sudy Sessions and Wriing Tuorial Cenre) Suden Affairs Suden Experience Office (repors o Suden Affairs) Undergraduae Recruimen Office Admissions Services (Undergraduae) Universiy Regisrar s Office Each of hese unis aspires o suppor a posiive learning environmen for sudens o promoe academic success and a sense of communiy. We look forward o working wih you. Supporing sudens in disress Suden life can be very sressful. Mos sudens juggle heavy course loads wih work, family and oher commimens. Chronic sress is ofen made worse by crises: unforeseen evens ha can cach sudens off guard. As members of he Carleon Universiy communiy, we all have concern for he wellbeing of our sudens. We also have a role o play in idenifying sudens who are in disress. Recognizing he signs of disress, and responding wih concern and ineres, are imporan facors in helping sudens resolve he problems hey are facing and coninue o be successful in boh academic and exracurricular aciviies. The Carleon Universiy Suden Menal Healh Framework is an imporan piece in our effors o promoe posiive menal healh and assis sudens in realizing heir poenial. Is purpose is o faciliae a consisen and inegraed approach o responding o sudens who are in disress. Sudens in disress refers o a broad coninuum from sudens experiencing a emporary seback or being confroned wih a specific problem ha is creaing significan sress, for example, a suden facing sudden financial hardship, o hose who are facing chronic and serious psychiaric illnesses ha inerfere wih daily living. The inenion of his Framework is o assis you in your effors in deermining when a suden is in disress, how urgen he siuaion is and how you can help. Please ake he ime o review he Framework carleon.ca/sudensuppor/suden-menalhealh-framework/ 2 Sudens and Enrolmen
Supporing Suden Success A Carleon Universiy, we wan our sudens o experience success and we pride ourselves as being a Canadian leader in he delivery of suppor services ha are personalized, varied and effecive. The wide range of programs and services available o sudens ouch on many aspecs of heir academic and suden life and are designed o suppor heir learning, enrich heir experience, and engage hem in he Carleon communiy. An imporan aspec of supporing suden success is a parnership beween faculy and suden suppor services. As your relaionships wih sudens develop, you may be faced wih quesions and issues ha are no direcly relaed o your eaching responsibiliies and canno be resolved hrough academic avenues. These issues may be abou academic readiness, financial assisance, career developmen, suden healh and wellness, or suden relaionships ouside of he classroom. The saff in our offices are professionals wih experise and knowledge o provide appropriae and responsive assisance. The char a he back of his book provides guidance on our suppor services. Suden Success Programs a Carleon Bounce Back Program FIT: Acion The Bounce Back Program is designed o provide suppor and encouragemen o firs-year sudens sruggling academically. I is a suppor program ha idenifies firsyear undergraduae sudens who received an average of less han 60% (GPA of less han 4.0) in heir firs semeser a Carleon. Wih he help of he Regisrar s Office, hese sudens are conaced via email and invied o ake par in his program. Those who opin are parnered wih an upper-year faciliaor who works individually wih each paricipan o help hem idenify he source(s) of heir academic hardship in he fall semeser and se new goals and idenify sraegies o achieve hose goals over he course of he winer semeser. carleon.ca/seo/bounceback The From Inenion o Acion (FIT: Acion) Program helps undergraduae as well as graduae sudens learn o beer manage heir sress and improve heir academic performance. The FIT: Acion program provides one-on-one suppor, in he form of weekly meeings, wih a program saff member who will help craf an individual plan for managing sress and geing back on rack. The mos common ways we help are: ime managemen, sress managemen, coping skills, learning sraegies and esaking sraegies. The FIT: Acion eam encourages any faculy wih concerns abou sudens academic progress o refer sudens o our program. To refer sudens ino his program please provide he suden wih our conac informaion. They can call or e-mail for an appoinmen, and our saff will see he suden wihin one business day. For more on how you can help, visi carleon.ca/fia/ faculyinfo. How can you mee sudens? Faculy ofen inquire abou how o ge more involved on campus. There are many ways o ake advanage of he programs, services, and faciliies on campus o mee sudens. Ge involved in Summer, Fall, Winer or Academic Orienaion. Paricipae in service learning iniiaives and aciviies. Cheer on your Ravens a a Varsiy game. Paricipae in a menorship program.
Awards & Financial Aid 202 Roberson Hall 613-520-3600 carleon.ca/awards Twier: @CUAwards The Awards Office is responsible for providing financial suppor, encouragemen, and financial advice o sudens. Our goal is o guide sudens hrough he decision making process so hey may have he appropriae financial suppors in place o successfully achieve heir educaional goals. Scholarships Carleon Universiy recognizes academic achievemen by awarding enrance, incourse and deparmenal scholarships. Sudens enering Carleon Universiy wih an admission average of 80 per cen or beer will auomaically be considered for one of our enrance scholarships. Our highes awards are our 25 Presige Scholarships ha require an admission average of 90 per cen or beer as well as a review of he suden s communiy or secondary school aciviies. See he full scholarship grid a carleon.ca/awards/scholarships. Sudens wih an A- sanding who have no been awarded a renewable enrance scholarship, will auomaically be awarded an in-course scholarship for he following year. There are also numerous deparmenal scholarships awarded o sudens based on heir academic sanding and year of sudy. An A- sanding (Annual GPA of 10.0) or beer is required o mainain and renew a scholarship. If a renewable scholarship is los in one year, i can be regained in fuure years. Bursaries A bursary is a moneary award ha is graned on he basis of financial need. In applying for a bursary, a suden mus presen a personal budge oulining coss and financial resources during he academic year. Work Sudy Program Work Sudy is a financial aid program inended o supplemen he resources of sudens who are in financial need and have limied financial resources by providing par-ime employmen on campus. Sudens mus apply and be approved o paricipae in he Work Sudy Program. Applicaions are available in Augus. Governmen Suden Financial Aid The Awards Office is responsible for adminisering he Onario Suden Assisance Program (osap.gov.on.ca) which is designed o help Onario sudens cover he cos of pos-secondary educaion. These ineres-free loans and grans are inended o supplemen a suden s financial resources. Similar programs exis in all provinces and he Unied Saes and he Awards Office collaboraes wih he oher provinces and he USA o ensure sudens receive heir funds. How can he Awards Office help you as a faculy member? The saff in he Awards Office is knowledgeable and well versed in all aspecs of financial assisance and would be pleased o mee wih you or provide presenaions o your sudens on How o Finance a Universiy Educaion For graduae informaion, go o page 21. 4 Awards & Financial Aid
Did you know: We offer bursaries o undergraduae sudens who are in receip of some ype of loan funding from eiher governmen suden financial assisance or from a financial insiuion and coninue o demonsrae financial need in order o finance heir sudies.
Co-op and Career Services 401 Tory Building 1400 Carleon Technology and Training Cenre 613-520-6611 613-520-4331 carleon.ca/career carleon.ca/co-op Twier: @hirecarleon_u The Co-op and Career Services Office is he on-campus cenre for career developmen, employmen preparaion, and experienial learning opporuniies for all Carleon Universiy sudens and recen graduaes. Career Services Our professionally rained saff members provide a comprehensive collecion of career and employmen services o equip graduae and undergraduae sudens wih he ools o make successful career choices, including: individual career counselling and employmen advising; career decision-making and employmen preparaion workshops; an inclusive resource cenre wih a broad selecion of educaional, employmen, and career planning maerial; career fairs and special neworking evens for curren sudens, new graduaes and alumni; Employer Services Program Each year, our employer recruimen eam welcomes more han 400 indusry and business parners o campus - allowing sudens o develop heir neworking skills and explore heir career opions. Sudens can jump-sar heir career by aking advanage of he following services: employer informaion sessions; employer panel discussions; online job posings; and on- and off-campus inerview co-ordinaion. 6 Co-op and Career Services How can he career services eam help you as a faculy member? We invie you o bring your class o an informaive 90-minue Resource Cenre our where sudens will discover more han 1,000 educaional, employmen and career planning resources. If you wan o hire a suden, we can help you find he alen you need. Jus submi your fullime, par-ime, summer, inernship or voluneer opporuniy o our office and we ll pos i on mycareer, our online job search ool, for free. We also offer a selecion of career developmen exercises online ha you can use in your classroom o inroduce sudens o he key conceps relaed o career planning and employmen preparaion. Sudens who wan o explore heir career aspiraions ofen seek guidance from faculy members. We can help. Please conac us o find ou how our services can help your sudens make a successful ransiion from universiy o he world of work. Wha does co-op mean o faculy? Co-op has many advanages - for sudens and faculy. Sudens ge he opporuniy o apply wha hey have learned in he classroom o real-life siuaions, allowing hem o develop core compeencies such as echnical and sof skills. These skills are hen brough back o he classroom where co-op sudens can offer real indusry perspecives in discussions and assignmens. Addiionally, co-op sudens ofen share heir indusry knowledge wih peers and professors o enrich he educaional experience of hose around hem. Co-op and Career Services for grad sudens Grad sudens can access free resources like career counselling sessions, resumé or CV reviews, mock inerviews and porfolio reviews. The Career Cerificae provides ips on how o research careers ha bes sui your personaliy ype, as well as providing mehods for a argeed and focused job search. To book a oneon-one consulaion, hey can conac Career Services a 613-520-6611 or by email career@carleon.ca or go o heir websie a: carleon.ca/cc/. The Faculy of Graduae and Posdocoral Affairs offers co-op opions in six programs. More informaion is available a: carleon.ca/co-op/graduae-sudens/ or by calling 613-520-4331.
You can hire a co-op suden! Archiecure suden Sephen Wolba (BAS/12) a work in he Parliamenary Precinc Branch for Public Works and Governmen Services Canada. Sephen worked as par of a projec managemen eam on he refurbishmen and resoraion of he Parliamen Buildings.
Healh & Counselling Services 2600 Carleon Technology & Training Cenre 613-520-6674 carleon.ca/healh Healh and Counselling Services (HCS) suppors he mission and goals of Carleon Universiy s Suden Suppor Services. Our saff believes a caring and supporive environmen enhances he educaional process. Healhy sudens are beer able o concenrae on heir sudies and reach heir highes poenial. We offer medical and counselling services and a healh promoion program. Appoinmens are recommended, however sudens wih urgen care needs may walk-in o be assessed beween he hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. Medical services Our eam of healh professionals provides services o mee he needs of Carleon undergraduae and graduae sudens. All of our saff has knowledge and experience in healh issues relevan o he suden lifesyles. We provide he same services ha a family physician would provide. How can HCS medical services help you in your role as a faculy member? You are an essenial parner in promoing suden healh, encouraging he imely use of healhcare services, and connecing sudens in disress wih valuable suppor. If you have concerns abou a suden wih medical issues, HCS encourages you o call and alk wih a healhcare provider or email concerns o hcs@carleon.ca. If a suden has a medical emergency in class call he Deparmen of Universiy Safey a 613-520-4444. Counselling services Our counselling eam includes personal counselors, GP psychoherapiss, a psychiaris, an inernaional suden counsellor and hree counsellors locaed in residence, o help wih personal and emoional difficulies. Our primary responsibiliy is o alleviae disress and promoe healhy funcioning. All healh records are confidenial. How can HCS help you in your role as a faculy member? If you have concerns abou a suden dealing wih personal or emoional issues, encourage him/her o see a HCS counsellor. Examples of issues sudens may discuss include: sress, homesickness, sadness, handling a crisis, improving communicaion, learning o be asserive, sudy skills, self-eseem, undersanding one s sexualiy, decisionmaking, and dealing wih alcohol and drug use. Refer o he yellow folder and regular email updaes for informaion abou suppor for sudens who are coping wih sress or crisis. You can find a copy of he yellow folder, or reques a new one, online a carleon.ca/sudensuppor/ resources/yellowfolder. Healh Promoion Services The Nurse Educaor for Menal Healh and Wellness rains Peer Helper sudens o deliver programs on healhy lifesyle issues sress managemen, increasing awareness of smoking, alcohol and drug concerns, healhy eaing, exercise, sleep and sexual healh. There is a Resource Cenre off of he clinic waiing room providing resources and informaion. How can HCS healh promoion services help you in your role as a faculy member? We provide healh informaion, raining, and consulaion. The Nurse Educaor collaboraes wih faculy o enhance he suden learning experience and inegrae suden healh concerns ino exising curricula. We also serve as resources for class projecs and presenaions. If you have an idea, or would like o consul wih our saff abou curriculum infusion or oher collaboraive projecs, please call he Nurse Educaor a 613-520-6676. Supporing sudens in disress: Suden Menal Healh Framework The Carleon Universiy Suden Menal Healh Framework is an imporan piece in our effors o promoe posiive menal healh and assis sudens in realizing heir poenial. Is purpose is o faciliae a consisen and inegraed approach o responding o sudens who are in disress. The inenion of his Framework is o assis you in your effors in deermining when a suden is in disress, how urgen he siuaion is and how you can help. Training sessions on he suden Menal Healh Framework are offered o faculy members hroughou he year. 8 Healh & Counselling Services You can review he Framework a carleon. ca/sudensuppor/suden-menal-healhframework and conac us wih any quesions or o regiser for a raining session a avpsudens@carleon.ca.
Docor s noes/medical cerificaes: If a suden is clearly unwell, you can make arrangemens wih hem o redo an exam or assignmen a anoher ime wihou consuling HCS. If i is a final exam he suden mus fill ou he Regisrar s Office Deferral of Exams Form and ge a medical cerificae from a docor. If you are uncerain of he validiy of a suden s incapaciy or need documenaion of an illness he suden mus be seen while hey are ill. There is a $15.00 charge for medical cerificaes. The following reasons will no necessarily be acceped for a docor s noe/medical cerificae: missed classes/labs excep in exenuaing circumsances; minor illnesses (e.g. colds, flu); pas illnesses ha have been resolved and ha here is no documenaion for; and obvious injuries (e.g. broken bone in a cas). Sudens are advised o discuss any of he above wih heir professor.
Inernaional Suden Services Office 128 Universiy Cenre 613-520-6600 carleon.ca/isso The Inernaional Suden Services Office (ISSO) cenralizes all services for regisered inernaional sudens and adminisers exchange programs for ougoing and incoming sudens. ISSO saff provide a friendly environmen o respond o quesions, hos programs, and work as official represenaives for immigraion advising and UHIP adminisraion. Our aim is o creae global engagemen and inernaional opporuniies for he enire Carleon communiy. We liaise wih sudens, faculy, saff, he Oawa communiy, and inernaional educaion organizaions on behalf of Carleon inernaional suden iniiaives. Our programs include: Inerculural educaion programs: Evens, programs, and voluneer/leadership aciviies o suppor inernaional learning, global ciizenship and cross culural undersanding; Exchange program adminisraion: Applicaion processing and suppor for incoming and ougoing sudens and liaison aciviies wih parner universiies; Adminisraion of Universiy Healh Insurance Plan (UHIP): Mandaory plan for inernaional sudens, exchange sudens, visiing researchers, visiing scholars and dependens; Canadian immigraion suppor: Suppor o curren sudens regarding Sudy Permi or Visa renewals, Work Permis and a Designaed Insiuional Represenaive* for processing offcampus work forms; 10 Inernaional Suden Services Office Orienaion/pre-deparure/re-enry programs: Transiion suppor for inernaional and exchange sudens or sudens aending inernaional field schools/inernships; Individual advising/counselling: Personal appoinmens wih our advisor and confidenial appoinmens wih an inernaional suden counsellor o help process and resolve personal and emoional difficulies; Social evens and aciviies in Oawa: On- and off-campus evens o connec sudens socially and programs and ours o enhance he Canadian experience and cross culural dialogue; Liaison wih suden clubs and associaions ha have an inernaional or culural affiliaion o suppor inernaional engagemen on campus. * In order for Immigraion Canada o consider an applicaion for off-campus work, full ime inernaional sudens MUST submi verificaion and consen forms o he ISSO as Carleon s official designaed insiuional represenaive in his federal/provincial iniiaive. How can he ISSO help you as a faculy member? Faculy can regiser for our monhly newsleer o learn abou immigraion informaion sessions and special programs for inernaional sudens and are invied o join ISSO evens o promoe global issues. The ISSO and Educaional Developmen Cenre (EDC) also offer Cross Culural Communicaion in he Classroom workshops. carleon.ca/isso/newsleers. We also encourage faculy o alk o heir sudens abou exchange opporuniies and refer sudens o ISSO who are ineresed in going on an exchange. You can also work wih he ISSO o esablish a suden exchange agreemen wih an inernaional parner you have idenified. Inernaional faculy members and heir families can also access all of he services. Services for grad sudens The Inernaional Suden Services Office (ISSO) is dedicaed o serving inernaional and exchange sudens, including graduae sudens, a Carleon. One of ISSO s major iniiaives is he Graduae Suden Menor program, a peer suppor program in which incoming inernaional graduae sudens are parnered wih a peer menor. The menors, who are all graduae sudens a Carleon, help hem learn more abou he universiy and answer heir quesions and concerns even before hey arrive in Oawa. ISSO also offers a range of oher programs and aciviies graduae sudens migh be ineresed in: An Orienaion program for new graduae inernaional sudens; Resources for Carleon sudens ravelling abroad; Academic Suppor and Workshops: Collaboraive workshops are offered in conjuncion wih oher suden services for academic suppor, career planning and culural adjusmen o develop skills for success.
Did you know: Carleon Universiy has 80+ exchange parners in 30 counries.
Paul Menon Cenre for Sudens wih Disabiliies 500 Universiy Cenre 613-520-6608 carleon.ca/pmc In accordance wih he Onario Human Righs Code and Carleon Universiy s Human Righs Policies and Procedures (2001), Carleon Universiy is commied o providing access for boh undergraduae and graduae sudens wih disabiliies o is rich variey of educaional opporuniies. The Paul Menon Cenre (PMC) for Sudens wih Disabiliies (PMC) is mandaed o assis in his obligaion, in par by faciliaing he provision of appropriae academic accommodaions. Appropriae accommodaions do no make i easier for sudens wih disabiliies, nor do hey allow hem o bypass essenial requiremens of heir courses. PMC Coordinaors recommend accommodaions only on he basis of evidence from relevan and curren documenaion from qualified professionals, consisen wih provincial and naional sandards. For example, documenaion of a learning disabiliy requires ha a formal psychoeducaional assessmen be conduced by a regisered, licensed psychologis. How he PMC can help you as a faculy member? PMC-recommended accommodaions are iemized on a Leer of Accommodaion, which is sen elecronically o faculy members. Responsibiliy for adminisering exam accommodaions (e.g. providing space, procors, and equipmen) depends on he ype of exam. Accommodaions for formally scheduled exams and CUOL miderm exams are he responsibiliy of Scheduling and Examinaion Services and he Educaional Developmen Cenre respecively. Insrucors mus balance he righs of sudens wih disabiliies wih he crucial need o ensure ha essenial requiremens are me by all sudens who receive a passing grade in heir courses. If an insrucor believes ha PMC-recommended accommodaions hreaen academic inegriy, a formal appeal process is available. This process recognizes ha he insrucor is he exper in he managemen of his/her course, he PMC is he exper in deermining appropriae academic accommodaions, and Equiy Services is he exper on insiuional obligaions under he Onario Human Righs Code. For deails of Carleon Universiy s accommodaion appeal process, see carleon.ca/pmc/sudens/accom_policy. hml. We ve produced a number of resource guides o help undersand some of he programs and policies in place a Carleon. Here you can find guidelines for a variey of purposes, including he accommodaion saemen for course oulines; he voluneer noeaking accommodaion and a sample insrucor announcemen; informaion on working wih sudens who are deaf/hard of hearing or have a memory impairmen; and a lis of reference websies and oher online resources. carleon.ca/pmc/faculy/guides/ 12 Paul Menon Cenre for Sudens wih Disabiliies
Suden Academic Success Cenre 302 Tory Building 613-520-7850 carleon.ca/sasc The Suden Academic Success Cenre (SASC) helps sudens a Carleon Universiy achieve heir academic goals. Our programs and services are designed o foser independence by providing sudens wih he decision-making and academic skills hey need o be successful. SASC offers a range of services o mee individual learning needs. Academic Advising The Suden Academic Success Cenre (SASC) is Carleon Universiy s cenralized academic advising service. Academic advisors can help sudens: fully undersand he skills and benefis associaion wih your degree; choose or change degree programs, majors, minors and areas of specializaion/concenraion; undersand academic rules and regulaions; explore any academic difficulies you may be experiencing and develop an Academic Improvemen Plan and sraegy for success; learn how o read your audi and help you ensure you are on he righ pah for success and graduaion; and discover oher suppor resources and personnel on campus, including deparmenal advisors. There is no appoinmen needed. Sudens can drop-in o 302 Tory when i is convenien for hem. How Academic Advisors can help you as a faculy member: The Suden Academic Success Cenre is open 12 monhs of he year for academic advising. There are a number of ways he Suden Academic Success Cenre can help insrucors, including: conexualized, in-class workshops for courses o help sudens o apply general learning and developmen sraegies o specific course projecs and exams; annual workshops for Firs-year Seminar classes in January and February; early warning iniiaives o help idenify sudens in academic difficuly; Academic Improvemen Planning for sudens who have been placed on Academic Warning; how o become a Peer Assised Sudy Session (PASS) suppored course; and overall suppor for general concerns abou sudens who are experiencing academic difficuly. Conac he Manager of he Suden Academic Success Cenre a 613-520-7850 o book any of he above workshops, find ou more abou becoming a PASS suppored course, or if you have general quesions abou supporing sudens. Learning Suppor Services Learning Suppor Services (LSS) offers a wide variey of programs o help boh graduae and undergraduae sudens develop effecive sudy skills and sraegies for academic success all in one convenien locaion. LSS is locaed in he Learning Commons on he fourh floor of MacOdrum library. LSS services include: Free 20-minue info sessions: academic reading noe-aking ime managemen muliple-choice exams general exam preparaion and many more One-on-one sudy skills appoinmens: Mee wih a sudy skills specialis for advice on opics ranging from ime managemen o academic inegriy. LSS also offers: Tuor Referral Service; comforable, open spaces for sudens o work independenly or in groups; bookable group sudy rooms; and neworked compuers for suden use. How LSS can help you as a faculy member? LSS offers workshops ha can direcly help sudens wih heir course work, such as wriing essays, ime managemen, exam anxiey and academic inegriy, o name a few. You can also book conexualized, in-class workshops for he courses you each ha will help sudens o apply general learning and developmen sraegies o specific course projecs and exams. Please conac he LSS Coordinaor o enroll in he Incenive Program or o book an in-class workshop. 14 Suden Academic Success Cenre
Peer Assised Sudy Sessions Peer Assised Sudy Sessions (PASS) are free, weekly workshops available o sudens aking seleced undergraduae courses. Aendance a a PASS workshop is boh volunary and anonymous and sessions are led by well-rained and knowledgeable PASS faciliaors, sudens who have aken he same course, and achieved a grade of A-. Aending a PASS workshop is a grea way for sudens o: improve undersanding of course maerial; ge help wih noes and readings; discuss imporan course conceps; develop sudying and learning sraegies; and mee oher sudens in heir class. How PASS can help you as a faculy member? Currenly here are over 35 PASS suppored courses. If you are ineresed in becoming a PASS-suppored course, conac he PASS Coordinaor. Saisical evidence has shown ha a suden s grade can increase by as much as 10 per cen if hey aend 10 or more PASS workshops in a erm. Wriing Tuorial Service The Wriing Tuorial Service (WTS) is free of charge o all graduae and undergraduae sudens. Focused, one-on-one consulaion sessions mach a uor and a suden, during which ime new wriing skills, ools and processes are developed and explored, each ailored o he suden s individual needs. The ar of lisening allows he uors o aid in ackling he personal challenges ha a suden may be facing wih academic wriing. The WTS serves all sudens in any faculy a all levels of sudy requiring suppor and informaion abou he academic wriing process. How he WTS can help you as a faculy member? The WTS offers in-class workshops which provide opporuniies for sudens o ask quesions while in he process of compleing an assignmen, increase awareness of he wriing process, and develop sraegies ha work for hem. Workshops also help o inroduce sudens o wriing suppor services on campus and clarify he expecaions of paricular wriing assignmens. Please conac he WTS Coordinaor o book an in-class workshop. Jus Do 10 Series Our Jus Do 10 series includes useful ips on a variey of opics such as ime managemen, noe-aking and wriing essays or muliple-choice exams. Learn more by visiing he Suden Academic Success Cenre or a Learning Suppor Services, or view he enire series online a carleon.ca/lss
Suden Affairs 430 Tory Building 613-520-2573 carleon.ca/sudenaffairs Creaing a living and learning environmen ha promoes suden success is imporan. A key aribue of being successful includes an undersanding of he suden rules and regulaions. Your awareness of he policies governing Carleon Universiy s living, learning and sudying environmen is imporan if you are faced wih a suden misconduc inciden or a suden in crisis. The Office of Suden Affairs is responsible for adminisering he following policies: Suden Righs and Responsibiliies The universiy is commied o promoing a safe environmen for living, learning and sudying. The goal of he Suden Righs and Responsibiliies Policy is o ensure appropriae suden behaviour is mainained in a diversified educaional environmen. I ensures ransparency and consisency in expecaions for conduc, as well as he address of and remedies for misconduc ha are correcive, no puniive. This policy governs he non-academic behaviour of sudens, and all members of he universiy communiy share responsibiliy for ensuring ha he universiy s living, learning and sudying environmens respec hese commimens. carleon.ca/sudenaffairs/ suden-righs-and-responsibiliies Academic Inegriy The universiy saes unequivocally ha i demands academic inegriy from all is members. The Academic Inegriy Policy governs he academic behavior of sudens. Academic dishonesy, in whaever form is ulimaely desrucive o he values of he universiy. Furhermore, i is unfair and discouraging o hose sudens who pursue heir sudies honesly. The inegriy of universiy academic life and he degrees conferred by he universiy is dependen upon he honesy and soundness of scholarship. Conduc by any person ha adversely affecs his process is a serious maer. Sudens who violae he principles of academic inegriy hrough dishones pracices undermine he value of he Carleon Universiy degree. Dishonesy in scholarly aciviy canno be oleraed. Any suden who violaes he sandards of academic inegriy will be subjec o appropriae sancions. carleon.ca/sudenaffairs/academicinegriy Alcohol Awareness Carleon Universiy recognizes he unique social needs of a large campus communiy and srives o provide an environmen where hese needs can be reasonably me. The Universiy also srives o mainain a safe and secure environmen in which he consumpion of alcohol on campus does no harm or disrup he eaching, learning and living environmen of members of he Universiy communiy. The Alcohol Policy promoes self-responsibiliy and self-accounabiliy wih respec o he use of alcohol. carleon.ca/ sudenaffairs/alcohol-awareness Oher policies The Office of Suden Affairs also manages oher policies including he Gambling Policy, he Accrediaion of Suden Organizaions and he Space Booking Policy for sudens. All members of he Carleon Universiy communiy share responsibiliy for ensuring ha he universiy s living and learning environmens respec all of he above policies. Academic Inegriy: An insrucor s guide This insrucor s guide is designed o help you undersand suden academic misconduc and o encourage suden academic inegriy values. One of he sronges predicors of suden academic inegriy is he suden s relaionship wih faculy. As an insrucor, you play a direc role in shaping suden aiudes oward academic inegriy and developing a sense of suden pride in sound scholarship. carleon.ca/sudenaffairs/academic-inegriy/guide-for-faculy 16 Suden Affairs
Sudens in Crisis Suden life can be very sressful. Mos sudens juggle heavy course loads wih work, family and oher commimens. Chronic sress is ofen made worse by crises: ofen sudens do no realize ha hey are in crisis unil hey acually find hemselves in academic difficuly. The firs sep in receiving help when in a crisis siuaion is o alk o someone. The Office of Suden Affairs serves as a cenral locaion where sudens can urn o for assisance in managing a crisis siuaion. Appropriae referrals o suppor services on campus can be faciliaed by he Direcor, Suden Affairs, and in some cases, assisance wih managing he adminisraive processes ha assis sudens hrough crisis can be offered. Suppor for faculy from Suden Affairs Faculy may encouner sudens in he classroom who are demonsraing disrupive behaviour or who are experiencing difficuly in heir academics due o a personal or family crisis. The Office of Suden Affairs can counsel boh faculy and sudens abou heir righs as members of he universiy communiy, and, if necessary, assis in he managemen of a suden issue o ensure minimal disrupion o he suden, faculy member, and academic classroom environmen. In addiion o services offered by he Direcor of Suden Affairs, rained peer helpers are available in he Suden Affairs office o assis sudens wih undersanding boh he Suden Righs and Responsibiliies Policy and he Academic Inegriy Policy. Peer helpers may also serve as advisors o sudens who have poenially violaed eiher policy in heir conduc hearings. Suden Affairs Online Inciden Repor form If you are very concerned abou a suden s behaviour and would like o make record of an inciden or conversaion wih a paricular suden, please fill ou he Suden Affairs Online Inciden Repor form. You can link o his form from he Suden Affairs websie a carleon.ca/sudenaffairs. This will auomaically begin he process of creaing a confidenial file in he Office of Suden Affairs, and he direcor of Suden Affairs will begin he process of monioring he suden for signs ha he/she may be a-risk.
Suden Experience Office 430 Tory Building 613-520-7595 carleon.ca/seo The Suden Experience Office (SEO) is a suden s firs sop upon arriving a Carleon Universiy! We help new sudens make a successful ransiion o universiy life by preparing hem o achieve heir personal and academic goals. We coninue o suppor sudens hrough heir ime a Carleon Universiy by offering relevan and helpful programs and services ha encourage suden engagemen. Transiion suppor is offered hrough: Summer, Fall, Winer and Academic Orienaion programs; Off-campus Commuer Connecions; and Firs-in-Family Peer and Bounce Back program The SEO encourages sudens o say conneced during firs year and beyond wih coninued suppor programs: Leadership developmen: Leadership raining and opporuniies for sudens o enhance leadership skills. Peer Helper Program: Connecs sudens in educaional and supporive environmens ouside of he radiional classroom seing. Upper-year Peer Helpers ake on leadership roles in a number of porfolios designed o enrich he academic and non-academic experiences of heir peers. CU Hoss: Suden hoss represen Carleon a campus and communiy evens. 18 Suden Experience Office Communiy Service Learning: Helps sudens make real life connecions beween heir classroom learning and experiences in he communiy. Carleon Serves: Day of service ha provide sudens, faculy and saff wih he opporuniy o learn and serve in an Oawa-based organizaion. Days of service: Afernoons spen wih a local communiy organizaion providing service o improve he qualiy of life of he Carleon communiy. Communiy Service Learning: Placemens ha enable sudens o paricipae in ongoing learning hrough service focused on a paricular issue. Alernaive Spring Break: Service learning in Oawa or inernaionally each year during reading week. Resources for off-campus sudens Many incoming sudens will be living off campus. As a resul of heir remoe and unique living environmens, hese off-campus sudens share disinc needs and concerns. To assis hem in saying conneced and involved in he Carleon Communiy, he SEO has developed a special Off- Campus Suden Life websie which can be accessed a carleon.ca/offcampus. The Co-Curricular Record The CCR is an official universiy documen ha recognizes a suden s leadership, accomplishmens, communiy service involvemen and professional developmen aciviies. Sudens can prin heir CCR a any poin hroughou heir academic career and presen i o prospecive employers and professional/ graduae schools. The CCR provides a unique opporuniy for he collaboraion of he enire Carleon Communiy of saff, faculy and sudens. Through he Co-Curricular Record, Carleon faculy and saff have he opporuniy o encourage experienial learning in our sudens and o allow hem o develop bonds beween wha hey learn in he classroom and real-world applicaions. carleon.ca/ccr Bounce Back Program The Bounce Back Program is designed o provide suppor and encouragemen o firs-year sudens sruggling academically. The Bounce Back program idenifies firsyear undergraduae sudens who received an average of less han 60% (GPA of less han 4.0) in heir firs semeser a Carleon. Wih he help of he Regisrar s Office, hese sudens are conaced via email inviing hem o ake par in he program. Those who op-in are parnered wih an upperyear faciliaor who works individually wih each paricipan o help hem idenify he source(s) of heir academic hardship in he fall semeser and se new goals and idenify sraegies o achieve hose goals over he course of he winer semeser. carleon.ca/ seo/bounce-back/ How can he SEO help you as a faculy member? Paricipae in he service aciviy or faciliae discussions and reflecion o help sudens make imporan connecions o heir in-class learning. Engage CU Hoss in an even you may be organizing. Hoss are rained ambassadors of Carleon Universiy.
Tel: 613-520-3663 Toll-free in Canada: 1-888-354-4414 Fax: 613-520-3847 Email: liaison@carleon.ca Websie: carleon.ca/admissions Undergraduae Recruimen Office and Admissions Services 315 Roberson Hall 613-520-3663 carleon.ca/admissions The Undergraduae Recruimen Office (UR) and Admissions Services recrui and admi he bes and brighes sudens o Carleon Universiy. The Undergraduae Recruimen Office is he welcome cenre for prospecive undergraduae sudens and provides informaion abou Carleon and represens all undergraduae programs and services. URO holds over 20 evens for prospecive sudens each year, adminisers he Campus Tour program, wries a monhly elecronic newsleer, and calls prospecive sudens hrough elecounselling call campaigns. Togeher, URO and Admissions Services respond o prospecive suden enquiries (by email, by phone, and in person) and suppor hem hrough he enire admission process. Admissions Services processes over 22,000 undergraduae applicaions annually and admis over 5,500 sudens o Carleon Universiy each year. Also wihin Admissions Services is he Inernaional Admissions and Recruimen uni ha conribues o he overall admission arges of he universiy by bringing he Carleon message o sudens abroad. Your role as a faculy member in he undergraduae recruimen and admissions process: Your involvemen in he recruimen and admissions process is criical o he success of hese endeavours. Prospecive sudens are ineresed in meeing professors and learning more abou he programs and opporuniies a Carleon Universiy. Faculy members are invied o paricipae in many of he Undergraduae Recruimen Office evens and iniiaives and can also help by being available for our congraulaion call campaign, one-on-one appoinmens, or classroom visis wih prospecive sudens in conjuncion wih our Campus Tour program. Faculy members wishing o reach ou o high school sudens can conac he Undergraduae Recruimen Office for addiional suppor and promoion. For graduae informaion go o page 21. Inernaional Sudies carleon.ca Do you wan more informaion? Please call or email us a: Undergraduae Recruimen Office Economics More and more sudens oday are discovering he firs-class research. In expers addiion, in you a wide will range benefi of from opics courses relaed imporance of inernaional sudies and i is easy o offered inernaional by seasoned sudies senior and economiss as specialiss wih exensive in o see why. 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