In June 2018, Quebec passed "Bill 176: An Act to amend the Act respecting labour standards and other legislative provisions mainly to facilitate family-work balance."
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The Faculty is pleased to welcome the following individuals to the Arts Community. Please join us in wishing them well in their new roles.聽
Allison Murphy
Allison Murphy recently joined the 9I制作厂免费 Institute for the Study of Canada as an Administrative Coordinator. She comes from Office of First Nations and Inuit Education.聽
Chungling (Tracy) Huang
The Office of Advising and Student Information Services (OASIS) welcomed Chungling (Tracy) Huang as an Administrative Student Affairs Coordinator on January 7.聽
Tabitha Sparks, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Associate Scholar in the Social Studies of Medicine, was recently appointed Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts. In this role, Professor Sparks will oversee and manage all matters related to research, prizes and awards, and graduate and post-doctoral studies in the Faculty.
The Faculty of Arts recently welcomed a new Director of Administration, Richard Courtois. Appointed in December 2018, Richard joins the Office of the Dean to oversee the business administration of the Faculty鈥檚 core operational areas, including Financial Services, HR, IT, Business Development, Communications, and Operations and Services.
After much anticipation, a shortlist of eight impressive titles was announced this week for the prestigious Cundill History Prize, an international history-writing prize administered by the Faculty of Arts at 9I制作厂免费. With $75,000 USD awarded to the winner and $10,000 USD to two finalists, the prize evidences 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 commitment to supporting leading scholarship produced around the globe.
Celebrating its 11th聽year, the Cundill History Prize announced聽a聽record number of submissions for 2018, with more than 400 titles聽accepted, up 25 percent from last year.聽Administered by the Faculty of Arts, the聽US$75,000聽prize will be awarded by聽a distinguished jury of world-leading historians. Five聽jurors were recently named to judge the impressive list of聽titles,聽which includes聽authors聽from richly diverse backgrounds tackling subjects as varied as religion and war, feminism and natural disasters, global finance and music.聽
We are very excited to announce that聽Gabrielle Iakotennikonhrare Doreen will be leading 9I制作厂免费's first ever landbased education field course this summer.
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Over the course of the Winter 2018 and Summer 2018 semesters the Education Collection, currently housed on the second floor the Humanties and Social Sciences Library, will be integrated into the main Humanities and Social Sciences Collection in the McLennan Library Building. This project will increase the visibility and browsability of the Education Collection and will create space for over 100 new study seats.
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Experiential Learning (EL) refers to the active process of learning by doing, in a mindful and intentional manner. According to the Association for Experiential Education, 鈥淓xperiential Learning occurs when carefully chosen experiences are supported by reflection, critical analysis and syntheses.鈥�
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". ()
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