NSAC E-Bulletin

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Student Handbook

The Student Handbook for 2006-2007 is available in PDF format from the following URL or by looking under Student Services, Handbooks on the Internet.

http://www.nsac.ca/stuserv/handbooks.asp

STLHE and SoTL . . . Just What Have We Joined?

Meet your colleagues on Thursday, August 31 from 2-4 pm, in Cox 262 to find out!

Nova Scotia Agricultural College has become a Founding Institutional Member of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Its website describes the society as "A community of teaching scholars dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning in higher education."

Since 1981, STLHE has shown leadership in higher education, advocating for teaching excellence and to advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

This session will make sense of the alphabet soup by expanding the abbreviations, parsing the definitions, and giving examples of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The presenter, Eileen Herteis, is Director of the Purdy Crawford Teaching Centre at Mount Allison University. Eileen is the NB, NL, and PEI regional representative for the society and its membership coordinator.

Time to get our heads back into the teaching mode, and this will give you a good start for the year. See you there!

Presented by the Instructional Development Committee.

BioPort Atlantic 2006 Conference

The theme of this year's BioPort Atlantic Conference, which will be held on September 26th to 27th in Halifax is, " Success Stories … learning from others’, telling our own!"
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It's a Boy for Leanne French Munn!

We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday, August 1st at 11:45am, Leanne and her husband Ross, welcomed Callum Ross Munn into their family.

Callum, weighing in at 7lbs, 5oz was also welcomed by his older brother, Alexander.

Both baby and mom are doing great!

Congratulations Munn family, we look forward to meeting Callum!

IPAC Nova Scotia/Dalhousie University School of Public Administration Forum 2006

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) Nova Scotia Regional Group and the Dalhousie University School of Public Administration (SPA) are please to be co-hosting a one-day conference, Governance Beyond the Horizon: Leadership and Innovation in a Changing Public Sector Environment. The conference focuses on the challenges and issues facing public servants in the coming years and what is needed to address them.

Wednesday September 27, 2006
Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, Atlantic Ballroom, 1181 Hollis St, Halifax
8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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NSAC Welcomes Back Stephanie Rogers

After a leave of absence we are pleased to announce that Stephanie Rogers has returned to the Development and External Relations Office as Manager of Public Relations.

Feel free to contact Stephanie at srogers@nsac.ca or 893-7247 if you have any questions.

NSAC Enjoys Largest Influx of International Students

NSAC is welcoming one of the largest influxes of international students to its university this Fall. Twenty-three students have arrived on the Bible Hill campus over the past week including students from China, Norway, Mexico, Japan and Rwanda.

"Internationalization has been a priority at NSAC in recent years as often the first opportunity one receives in life to be exposed to people from diverse cultural backgrounds, religions and languages is when one attends university," said NSAC President Dr. Philip Hicks. "A key role for universities in today’ s complex and war-torn world is to equip our students with a level of cross-cultural understanding and sophistication of viewpoint which will allow them to deal with today’s issues in a fair and open way," he continued. "I am delighted to see our efforts at NSAC to internationalize be rewarded by this large incoming class from abroad." Complete article...