ACADEMIC DEADLINES
September 12: OSAP deferral deadline. Late payment charges and late registration charges applied to the student account on or after this date for eligible OSAP students.
September 13-15: Full and late summer deferred final examinations held.
September 17: Last day of registration for fall term and fall/winter courses. Last day to change courses or sections (including auditing) for fall term and fall/winter courses.
September 17: 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 fall 2019 and must register for the fall 2019 term.
September 30: Last day to withdraw from fall term and fall/winter courses with a full fee adjustment (financial withdrawal). Withdrawals after this date will create no financial change to fall term fees and will result in a permanent notation of WDN appearing on your official transcript.
October 11: December examination schedule (fall term final and fall/winter mid-terms) available online.
October 14: Statutory holiday. University closed.
October 21-25: Fall 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.
TRAINING & CAREER WORKSHOPS
Some Grad Navigate workshops are now posted. Stay tuned as more will be added. Please note that online training modules or workshops advertised outside of Grad Navigate do not count towards paid training hours for TAs.
September 28: EDC’s TA Training Day
September 23: Media Training
September 26: Essentials of Productive Teams (Mitacs). To learn more and register for this course, please click here.
October 24-25: Foundations of Project Management I (Mitacs) To learn more and register for this course, please click here.
Mitacs also 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.
AWARDS & COMPETITION DEADLINES
September 9: Carleton U. deadline to apply for a Rhodes scholarship
September 27: Deadline to apply for an NSERC doctoral award
September 30: Deadline for the Donor-Funded Awards.
October 1: Deadline to apply for a SSHRC doctoral award
October 1: Deadline to apply for a CIHR doctoral award
November 15: Deadline to apply for a Fulbright scholarship
November 15: Deadline to apply for an OGS
December 1: Deadline for master’s students to apply for a Tri-Council award
EVENTS
October 10: Psychology Mental Health Day
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). You can 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.