ACADEMIC DEADLINES
February 17: April examination schedule available online.
February 20: Statutory holiday, University closed.
February 20-24: Winter Break. Classes are suspended.
March 1: Last day for UHIP refund applications for International Students who will be graduating this academic year.
March 1: Last day for receipt of applications from potential spring (June) graduates.
March 1: Grad students expecting to graduate at the Spring Convocation must submit their thesis to their supervisor, in examinable form, by this date
March 10: Last day to request formal exam accommodations for December examinations to the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities. Late requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
March 20: Last day to pay any remaining balance on your Student Account to avoid a hold on access to marks through Carleton Central and the release of transcripts and other official documents. An account balance may delay Summer 2017 course selection.
For a complete list of all official academic and financial dates and deadlines, please go to the Registrar’s website. For all financial matters, go to Student Accounts.
EVENTS/OTHER
February 23-26: 14th Canadian International Model United Nations (CANIMUN) conference
February 24–March 31: 4th Annual FPA Research Month
February 24: Deadline to apply for a two-week study program in India
February 27: Deadline to enter the CU75 Community-Academic Expo (to organize a panel, workshop or presentation)
March 2-4: Visions for Canada 2042 conference
March 15: Carleton’s Three Minute Thesis competition
March 30: 2017 Linguavision Song Competition
April 7: Deadline to submit activities/positions to the Co-Curricular Record
April 28: Deadline to enter a poster project in the CU Academic Expo
For information about Carleton events, go to the university events calendar. For information about events targeted at or promoting graduate student research, go to Grad Research Link.
TRAINING & CAREER WORKSHOPS
Grad Navigate workshops are posted for this term. You can always access online training through MyGradSkills.ca. Please note that these online training modules workshops do not count towards paid training hours for TAs.
You might want to consider the next Media Training workshop – you need to register in advance. Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in 617 Southam.
For those entering the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, the two training sessions are being held today and tomorrow – if you want to attend and haven’t registered, just show up: Feb. 15 from 1-3 p.m. and Feb. 16 from 10-12 a.m.
AWARDS & COMPETITION DEADLINES
February 20 (4:30 p.m.): Deadline to submit a nomination for the 2016-17 Carleton U. Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement
March 6: Deadline to apply for the Adrian D.C. Chan award for Volunteer and Community Service
March 6: Deadline to apply for the Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program
March 6: How would you make Ontario better? Deadline to enter the Lieutenant Governor’s Visionaries Prize.
March 10: Deadline to apply for a Dan David scholarship
March 12: Deadline for PhD students to register for the Fields Institute inaugural thesis competition
March 31: Deadline for Mitacs international research awards
Mitacs offers several funding opportunities for graduate students. You can apply any time, except there are two deadline dates each year for the Mitacs Elevate program. Check out:
(a) Mitacs Accelerate (Funding starts at $15,000 for research internships with industry or non-profit partners)
(b) Mitacs Elevate ($57,500 annual grant for two-year postdoctoral fellowships with industry or non-profit partners).
(c) Mitacs Globalink Research (Travel funding for research projects with international universities)
(d) Mitacs Step (Professional development workshops facilitated by industry leaders
Note: For information about Carleton awards, go to our awards and funding website.
TA DEADLINES
The deadlines to apply for a Leave From Duties are: April 30 (summer term) (access form via Carleton Central), Aug. 31 (fall term) and Dec. 31 (winter term).
Deadline to apply to be an “out-of-priority” TA for the fall term 2017 is Sept. 1 and for the winter term 2018 is Jan. 1.
“Pedagogical” training hours must be completed by March 30 for a full academic year TAship or a winter-only TAship and by Nov. 30 for a fall-only TAship.
TAs – Please note that it can take up to two weeks before your attendance at workshops is recorded. You are strongly encouraged to track your progress independently of the TA Management System in order to ensure its accuracy. In the event of a discrepancy, you are responsible for ensuring your training is captured in Carleton Central.