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October 27, 2003 --- Week 152

Teaching Workshop for Faculty

There will be a Teaching Workshop for faculty, staff, and other instructors entitled "Structured Education Design” Students, Outcomes, Programs with speaker Pierre Zundel, Nov. 3rd, 9:00 am in Cox Institute Rm. 136. Check out the poster for details

Director, Enrolment Management announced

Dr. Hicks announces that Ms. Leanne French-Munn has accepted the position of Director, Enrolment Management.

Leanne offers a diverse background in enrolment management initiatives, both formal and informal, from past work experiences at St. Francis Xavier University, the University of Guelph and the University of New Brunswick. In addition, Leanne’s work experience is coupled with a sound theoretical background in enrolment management systems stemming from her graduate work at UNB. The position is a secondment on a term basis from her role as Manager, NSAC International.

United Way events this week

This week is our fund raising drive for the United Way @ the College. The following are some of the events we have planned:

If you have any questions, please contact Fraser

Athletics results

Men's Soccer
ACAA Semi Final
NSAC - 0 Kings 2

University of Kings College went on to win the ACAA Championship
Atlantic Baptist University won the Women's ACAA Title

Both teams will be representing the ACAA in the Canadian Colleges
Athletic Association Championships in Abbotsford BC at the University
College of the Fraser Valley

NSAC's Nick Bokma and Sarah Sine were selected to the ACAA
All-Conference Soccer Teams

Women's Rugby
Rugby League Semi-Final
NSAC - 0 UPEI - 40

Women's Volleyball Club Team
ACAA Tip-Off Tournament 1 - 4 Record

Men's Volleyball Club Team
ACAA Tip-Off Tournament 1 - 3 Record

Varsity Results

Autumn Assembly 2003 a Huge Success!!!

A total of 260 students at NSAC received a total of $790,000 in scholarship dollars last week. That represents 35% of the student body at the institution – better than 1 in 3 students at NSAC is an award winner.

Autumn Assembly is an opportunity to recognize our student diversity. Among our scholarship winners are 173 students from Nova Scotia, 32 from New Brunswick , 19 from Prince Edward Island, 18 from Newfoundland and Labrador, 6 from other Canada provinces (Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and BC) and 10 International students including 5 from India and others from China, Indonesia, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Our winners list included 90 first year students, 53 second year students, 52 third year students, 31 fourth year students, 29 of our graduate students and 5 graduates from NSAC who are studying at the University of Guelph and UPEI this fall.

Alumni Weekend a Great Time

The annual Homecoming, Alumni Weekend was a big success this past friday and Saturday. Grads from 1938 on came to get together, talk about the NSAC as it once was and hear about what is currently going on. There was a near record turn out for the Alumni Breakfast at the library. The Class of 1952 presented NSAC with a caved version of the logo in memory of Dr. MacRae and Jenny McInnes gave an excellent talk on the relationship of NSAC to the NS Woman's Institute. There were class reunions and other special events. About 50 people enjoyed the lunch and annual meeting of the NSAC Alumni Association. The Class of '53 won the shield for the highest percentage of class to attend (40%) and John Rogers from class of '73 for traveling the furthest (Spencerport, New York). Thanks to all the volunteers for pitching in to make the weekend memorable for the grads.

Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame Induction Held in Alumni Theatre

The Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame held it annual induction ceremony in Alumni Theatre on October 22nd. This was the first time the event had been held there since it beginning in 1968. The reaction to the change was positive as it added to the formal feeling of the event.

The Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame has always had a close connection to NSAC. The photos of the Inductees hang in Cumming Hall and the organization of the event has traditionally been done on campus by volunteers with the Department of Agriculture. Since 2000, the organization for the Hall has been done by the staff of the Development and External Relations office. Many of the inductees are grads of NSAC and the induction event is an excellent opportunity to network with the major players in Atlantic Agriculture.

VIsit the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame website at http://www.nsac.ns.ca/halloffame/ for more information.

News from the Road

It’s been another busy few weeks for NSAC’s recruitment team. Two weeks ago Brian Carruthers visited schools in Cumberland County, including CEC and South Colchester. NSAC received great interest from both of these schools, and many students are interested in taking advantage of our ‘1st Year at Home’ program. This program allows students interested in arts or science to take a basic first year program that upon completion can be either transferred to another institution or applied to degree studies right here. Meanwhile, Craig spent the week in St. John’s, NL and brought home a large number of information requests. Despite heavy rainstorms and washed out roadways, last week saw Brian traversing the highways and byways of Newfoundland, while Craig traveled the Bridgewater and South Shore areas of Nova Scotia. Both recruiters have seen varying levels of interest in the high schools, and we hope to see many of the interested students at NSAC this Fall for campus visits. Speaking of campus visits, last week saw three students attend campus tours to find out more about what NSAC has to offer.

We’d like to thank Ali Madani and Peter Havard for their attendance and contribution to the Parent Night at CEC, and to Susan Michel for her help at CEC’s morning information session.

Engineering Openhouse Planned

Engineering will have their annual Open House on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 6 -9 p.m.

They are having displays by current students, grad students research projects, faculty research projects, several engineering activities of the Resource Stewardship Branch (NSDAF), career and awards office, industry booths (APENS, Horner Assoc., Nova Scotia Power, John Deere, etc.), interactive physics lab display, and much more. It promises to be a very informative and exciting event for potential students. A poster is available at for viewing. Please encourage people to attend.

New Education Website Announced

The Canadian Education Association launched its new Website on October 17th including Focus on ICT. We are hoping that this new resource will serve as a forum for Canadians interested in formal education and lifelong learning to connect with one another. In order to make this possible, we would like to invite you to contact your members and friends and let them know that our new Website is now accessible and that we are ready to receive their comments and suggestions on what we are presenting. We would also like to invite all members of the Canadian education community to send us information concerning their education-related events so that we can post it for FREE on our new Website.

CEA is really excited about its new accomplishment, and we’re looking forward to posting your events on what we’re hoping will become a virtual meeting place for the Canadian education community.

PLEASE VISIT US AT http://www.cea-ace.ca

Karine Rainville
Program Development Officer / Agente d'élaboration des programmes
Canadian Education Association