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May is Sexual Violence Awareness Month (SVAM) in Alberta, and to bring to light the importance of consent within our community, the University of Calgary, Bow Valley College (BVC) and Mount Royal University (MRU) collaborated to build a new workshop that focuses on creating communities of care. Rethinking Consent: Creating Communities of Care,
is a two-part workshop that aims to promote the necessity of consent when forming all of our relationships, not just intimate ones.
Carla Bertsch, UCalgary’s sexual violence support advocate, spoke with the
Gauntlet on the new workshop she’s been working on and the collaboration UCalgary has had with the two other Calgary based universities.
Returning Students’ Union (SU) Faculty of Science representative Chaten Jessel has been working hard this past year, creating community initiatives in support of undergraduate students at the University of Calgary.
Three of these projects were in collaboration with other SU representatives from the 2019–20 school year Manpreet Sahota and Pragya Chopra and will carry on into Jessel’s second term as faculty rep. These projects include the Earth Science (ES) 160 study space renovation, the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (IDEA) Awards and the Open Education Resource Fund (OERF).
The $35,460.22 ES160 renovation will provide students with 25 new study carrels with access to outlets and a study lamp. Along with other space improvements like white boards and new paint, this initiative hopes to reduce the severe lack of study spaces on campus and will allow all students to effectively complete their academic work when it is deemed safe to return to campus.
Posted: Apr 23, 2021 4:00 AM MT | Last Updated: April 23
Semhar Abraha with the University of Calgary Students Union and Chaten Jessel one of the students behind the initiative, say Alberta lags behind other provinces in adopting free course resources.(Submitted by Abraha and Jessel)
Last month the University of Calgary announced new funding available for different co-op and internship placements for external employers as part of the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP).
According to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) the program aims to provide post-secondary students across the country with the opportunity to have “paid work experience related to their field of study.”
A UCalgary news article welcomed the funding, noting that it comes at a time when “both students and employers find themselves navigating challenging economic conditions.” These challenging conditions were brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic which is impacting the student population in Alberta and across Canada.