ACADEMIC DEADLINES
January 18: Last day for registration for winter term courses. Last day to change courses or sections (including auditing) for winter term courses.
January 18: Graduate students who have not electronically submitted their final thesis copy to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs will not be eligible to graduate in Winter 2017 and must register for the Winter 2017 term.
January 20-22, 27-29: Fall-term deferred examinations will be held.
January 31: Last day for a fee adjustment when withdrawing from Winter term courses or the Winter portion of two-term courses (financial withdrawal). Withdrawals after this date will create no financial change to Winter term fees.
February 17: April examination schedule available online.
February 20: Statutory holiday, University closed.
February 20-24: Winter Break. Classes are suspended.
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
Now-Summer, 2017: O-Train Construction Work
January 20: Deadline to enter the Green Revolving Fund competition
January 25: Research Data Management & Portage Network
January 26: Claudia Schröder-Adams’ research documentary, Arctic Greenhouse will be shown at 8 p.m. on the Canadian Museum of Nature. More information View movie trailer
February 6: Deadline for papers “Pathways & Intersections: Navigating the Social”. 5th annual Sociology/Anthropology Grad Student Caucus.
February 10: Deadline to enter Digifest Student Showcase
February 23-26: 14th Canadian International Model United Nations (CANIMUN) conference
February 24: Deadline to apply for a two-week study program in India
February 27: Deadline to enter CU75 Community-Academic Expo
March 15: Carleton’s Three Minute Thesis competition
March 30: 2017 Linguavision Song Competition
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 Media Training workshops – you need to register in advance. Please click on the session for more info.
Monday, Jan. 23 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 617 Southam.
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, there are two training sessions: Feb. 15 from 1-3 p.m. and Feb. 16 from 10-12 a.m.
AWARDS & COMPETITION DEADLINES
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
January 20: Deadline to enter the Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge
January 31: Deadline to apply for the ThinkSwiss scholarship program
January 31: Deadline to apply for a DAAD RISE professional internship 1:
February 1: Deadline to apply for a Mackenzie King scholarship
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
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 is Jan. 1, 2017.
“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.