ACADEMIC DEADLINES
November 25: Winter Payment Deadline. Click here for important payment information. Late charges may be applied to your student account any time after this date
November 30: Information session for those interested in becoming a Residence Fellow (12 noon in Fenn Lounge, CO)
December 1: Last day for receipt of applications from potential winter (February) graduates
December 1: Last day to submit the final draft of your Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation to your supervisor in order to graduate in the winter term.
December 9: Fall term ends. Last day of fall-term classes. CLASSES FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE!!! Last day for academic withdrawal from fall term courses..
December 9: Last day to pay any remaining fall tuition fees to avoid a hold on access to marks through Carleton Central and the release of transcripts and other official documents.
December 10-22: Final exams
December 11: Information Session to be a Residence Fellow (7 p.m. in Fenn CO)
December 24 (noon)-Jan. 2: The University and FGPA will be closed for the holidays, re-opening at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 3.
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
November 29: Giving Tuesday. Join Carleton’s Day for Good today.
Now-January 10: New Subway Outlet in Athletics
Now-Summer, 2017: O-Train Construction Work
November 17: Fall Showcase of Literary and Dramatic Arts
November 18: Shannon Lecture Series: Dr. Maureen Lux on “A Social History of Indian Hospitals in Canada”
November 21: Swiss-Canadian Polar Research Symposium
November 30: 2016 Quality Showcase
December 10: Holiday Skate on campus
January 5: Deadline to apply to the Carleton Community Art Exhibition
January 20: Deadline to enter the Green Revolving Fund competition
February 10: Deadline to enter Digifest Student Showcase
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
There are still a few Grad Navigate workshops that are available to claim your pedagogical training hours for the fall term. If you are a fall-only TA, you need to complete your training by Nov. 30. Check out these remaining workshops:
Media Training: Nov. 18
AcWriTreats: November 18-21 (Academic Writing Retreat)
AcWriTreats: November 25-28
Dec. 6-10: PhD Dissertation Writing Bootcamps. Mornings from 9 to 12. Afternoons from 1 to 4.
Registration is now open for the winter 2017 cohort of Preparing to Teach, the EDC’s 10-week course for upper-year PhD students who are preparing to teach at the undergraduate level. Registration info is available here,
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.
AWARDS & COMPETITION DEADLINES
Note: Students and departments will be notified in mid-December of the status of their application for a donor funded award.
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
November 20: Deadline to apply for a Contract Instructor Teaching Award
November 20: Deadline to apply for a Contract Instructor Teaching Innovation Grant
December 1: Deadline to apply for an OGS and Tri-council Master’s award
December 7: Deadline to apply for a Gates Cambridge scholarship
December 20: Deadline to enter The Global Challenge
December 31: Deadline to enter the Chief Statistician of Canada Infographic Challenge
January 31: Deadline to apply for the ThinkSwiss scholarship program
January 31: Deadline to apply for a graduate student open access award
February 1: Deadline to apply for a Mackenzie King Scholarship
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: Dec. 31 (winter term), April 30 (summer term) (access form via Carleton Central) and Aug. 31 (fall term).
Deadline to apply to be an “out-of-priority” TA for the winter term is Jan. 1, 2017 and for the fall term 2017 is Sept. 1.
“Pedagogical” training hours must be completed by Nov. 30 for a fall-only TAship and by March 30 for a full academic year TAship or a winter-only TAship.
TAs – Please note that it can take up to two weeks before your attendance at workshops is recorded. This is because this process is manual and time-consuming. 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.
