The Office of Indigenous Initiatives is pleased to share its annual review of Indigenous successes and accomplishments across McGill in 2022. The Faculty of Education's Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) is prominently featured among these successes:
McGill IT has put together a list of tips and tricks for the holiday season to help keep your devices on the nice list and ward off any naughty cyber attacks. Check out these four key tips and additional resources to help protect your digital world: https://www.mcgill.ca/cybersafe/article/have-cybersafe-holiday.
Did you know... McGill students have access to 20 GB FREE personal file space on OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud file storage component of the Office 365 package.
Important: New OneDrive storage capacity
Please note that students admitted on and after December 11th, 2023, receive 20GB of storage for McGill's OneDrive as well as 20GB storage for McGill's email (Outlook).
For now, the storage capacity allotted to students admitted before that date will not be affected.
Congratulations to Stephanie Leite, a second-year PhD student with DISE's Leadership and Learning for Sustainability lab, who has been named one of the 2022 recipients of the prestigious Vanier CGS award. Vanier awards are granted to highly qualified doctoral students who demonstrate academic excellence, research potential, and leadership.
A celebratory evening was held to celebrate the graduation of the 28 locals who completed their McGill University Bachelor’s of Education studies on October 22.
The graduates were a part of a special program where they studied in the Kahnawake, with instructors from the community.
Read the full Kahnawake News article here.
Watch the livestream of the Fall 2022 Convocation Ceremony.
For more information on Convocation, visit McGill's Graduation and Convocation website.
Dr. Shaheen Shariff, DISE, Dr. Christopher Dietzel, and Safia Amiry are working on an edited collection about the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this collection is to identify and analyze ongoing and emerging pandemic-related challenges and develop realistic guidelines and suggestions for a post-pandemic world.
On Orange Shirt Day/National Truth and Reconciliation Day, September 30, McGill Faculty of Education held its fourth annual Skátne Entewathahíta / We Will Walk Together event.
The Office of Sustainability, in partnership with the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has created an opportunity for faculty and students to enhance sustainability in the curriculum.
The Sustainability Education Fellows Program is a cross-campus initiative, supported by the Sustainability Projects Fund, that will bring together faculty and students to advance sustainability in the curriculum and pedagogy at McGill.
This past November, Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies, Claudia Mitchell, was awarded the 2022 José Vasconcelos World Award of Education. Dr. Mitchell was present for the 37th World Cultural Council (WCC) Award to receive this honour at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and to give her acceptance speech.
Dr. Joseph Levitan, DISE, with Dr. Marc Brasof, have a new volume out entitled, "Student Voice Research: Theory, Methods and Innovations from the Field" published by Teachers College Press.
This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice.
Meiting Chen $1,000
Kim Abi Zeid Daou $7,800
Shamnaz Arifin Min $7,800
Lea Abi Zeid Daou $7,000
As the window to mitigate the impacts of climate change closes, Faculty of Education’s Professor Blane Harvey shares his thoughts on the University’s power to create transitions and transformations.
Dr. Mindy R. Carter, PhD from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has published a new book "Smallest Circles First: Exploring Teacher Reconciliatory Praxis through Drama Education" which is now available from University of Toronto Press.
Page count is 186 and is available to order:
ISBN 9781487523831
McGill’s Faculty of Education, Philip Cutler, BEd’13, created the company Paper, which he co-founded with Roberto Cipriani, BSc’08. It quickly became one of the largest online tutoring services in the U.S., hired by public school districts in over 30 states, as well as four provinces in Canada, to assist their students (mostly middle school and high school).
