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Supporting student enrolment during a pandemic

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Implementing SEM tactics has been a challenge — along with the abrupt transition to online learning and teaching. But the good thinking behind SEM has helped UVic mitigate impacts of COVID-19 and support student success during a difficult year.

Great tasks ahead for campus, AVP Indigenous

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The spring announcement that Qwul’sih’yah’maht Robina Thomas would serve as the university's inaugural AVP Indigenous follows two decades of change at UVic—and hints, as well, at work still to be done.

COVID-19 health research

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UVic researchers build more resilient communities in the wake of COVID-19.

Co-op Employers of the Year 2020

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Every year, co-op employers in Canada and around the world provide support, mentorship and extraordinary work-integrated learning experiences for students.

Livestream learning opportunity

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COVID restrictions closed UVic’s Phoenix Theatre last March. With a no-performance mandate and limited in-person classes, the Department of Theatre introduced a new learning stream.

BFA exhibit: work created under COVID

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Visual arts students were prepping the BFA grad show when, with less than a month before the opening date, they were informed that a public show would not be possible—now they're shifting it online.

What makes democracy tick?

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UVic’s recent Students’ Dialogue on Democratic Engagement sought to foster student engagement through an innovative technique known as a deliberative mini-public. A practice gaining traction around the world, a deliberative mini-public is a space that brings together a true cross-section of a particular community for the purpose of dialogue on a given topic.

Stories light a dark history of dispossession

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The seven-year, multi-million-dollar humanities research project, Landscapes of Injustice, has culminated in the launch on March 28 of a public database revealing a chilling chapter of history.

Making higher education accessible worldwide

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A passion for music and computers inspired Professor George Tzanetakis to transform his popular UVic course for a global platform so it could reach an unlimited audience.

Co-op Students of the Year 2020

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From Saskatchewan to Northern Alberta to right here in Victoria, co-op students are making vital contributions to communities and organizations across Canada and the globe.

What’s behind the buzz about micro-credentials?

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COVID-19 has heightened the need for varied educational opportunities for people seeking new skills, knowledge and connections to thrive in an ever-changing economy—like micro-credentials.

New eyes on social gaps and opportunities

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UVic professor Ana Maria Peredo saw a new opportunity despite the pandemic to engage her Environmental Studies class with a social investment organization, the Vancouver Island Community Investment Cooperative.

Citizen scientists rise to the challenge

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On the rural properties of 19 citizen scientists in Metchosin, the work of verifying whether flying insect biomass is declining will soon be underway for another season. The Metchosin homeowners involved in University of Victoria entomologist Neville Winchester’s research were first recruited as citizen scientists in 2018.

Climate solutions focus

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Marine ecologist and conservation biologist Julia Baum awarded UVic’s President’s Chair Award for her research and teaching excellence.

"Life Stories" explored through art exhibit

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The latest Legacy Gallery exhibit brings the research of art history & visual studies professor Erin Campbell into the public spotlight through nearly 100 pieces of art & objects from UVic's art collection

Excerpts from Holocaust graphic novel project

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A UVic-based project connecting three graphic artists with four Holocaust survivors on three continents has released excerpts from the collection of three graphic novels.

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