ACADEMIC DEADLINES
October 22-26: Fall break. Classes are suspended.
November 25: Winter term payment deadline. Click here for important payment information. Late payment charges and late registration charges applied to the student account on or after this date. Interest charges begin to accrue on January 1.
December 1: Last day for receipt of applications from potential winter (February) graduates.
December 1: Last day for graduate students to submit their supervisor-approved thesis in examinable form to their department.
December 7: Fall term ends. Last day of fall term classes. Classes follow a Monday schedule. Last day for academic withdrawal from fall term courses. Last day for take home examinations to be assigned, with the exception of those conforming to the examination regulations in the General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar. 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 8: No classes or examinations take place.
December 9 – 21: Final examinations in fall term courses and mid-term examinations in fall/winter courses may be held. Examinations are normally held all seven days of the week.
December 25, 2018-January 1, 2019: University closed.
January 2, 2019: University reopens at 8:30 a.m.
January 7: Winter term classes begin.
January 14: OSAP deferral deadline. Late payment charges and late registration charges applied to the student account on or after this date for eligible OSAP students.
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 2019 and must register for the winter 2019 term.
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
October 18: FPA’s Author Meets Readers – Diaspora and Media in Europe
October 18: Psychology Mental Health Day
October 19: Shannon Lecture with Steph Halmhofer “#InventedFantasies – Using Social Media to Talk About Pseudoarchaeology”
October 25-26: (For senior PhD students) Scott White from The Conversation will address faculty and PhD students. There are five sessions to choose from.
October 30: Here Be Dragons Artists and Curator Walk-Through
October 30: 2018 Peeter Kruus Memorial Lecture
November 7: Immigration Workshop: Study Permit Renewal (for international students)
November 8: 2018 Quality Showcase
November 8: LinkTank: A Networking Night for FPA Graduate Students
November 13: Career Workshop: Marketing Your International Experience
November 15: FPA’s Author Meets Readers – A Family Matter
For information about Carleton events, go to the university events calendar.
TRAINING & CAREER WORKSHOPS
Check out media training sessions for this fall.
Click here for list of mandatory health and safety workshops
Grad Navigate workshops for the fall term are now posted. You can always access online training through MyGradSkills.ca. (Please note that these online training modules do not count towards paid training hours for TAs.)
AWARDS & COMPETITION DEADLINES
October 25: Deadline to apply for the IBM PhD Fellowship
November 15: Deadline to apply for a Fulbright award
November 15: Deadline to apply for an OGS
November 15: Deadline to submit entry to the National Essay Challenge: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. But you must email the group in advance to access the group.
November 15: Deadline to apply for the Richard Van Loon Scholarship
December 1: Deadline for master’s students to apply for a Tri-Council award
July 1, 2019: Deadline to apply for a bursary from the Centre for Research and Education on Women & Work
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)
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) and Aug. 31 (fall term) (access form via Carleton Central).
Deadlines to apply to be an “out-of-priority” TA are as follows: December 15 (Winter term), April 15 (Spring/Summer term) and August 15 (Fall/Winter term).
“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. 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.
