Volume 9 | Issue 34 | May 16, 2022

Celebrate Our Graduates

Help us celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2022! King's is excited to celebrate Spring 2022 Convocation in person. Convocation will take place on June 22 and 24 and you can find the schedule of events on the Convocation page.

Graduates! Tell us about your King’s experience and your future plans in the Graduation Survey. You could win a degree frame!

Overseas Experiential Learning

Follow the SJPS Students in Rondine

King’s Social Justice and Peace Studies students left for Italy on May 1, 2022! For the first time since 2019, our students have returned to Rondine Cittadella della Pace in Arezzo, an education centre that brings together youth from conflict sites around the world.

Follow their month-long journey on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @KingsRondine.

King's World Wars History Students Attract Media Attention While Abroad

History students enrolled in the experiential learning course The World Wars in History, Memory, and Reconciliation visited historic sites in Belgium and France including Dieppe, Juno Beach and Flanders Fields. The trip has successfully wrapped up and their research will be on display at the Juno Beach Centre Museum until 2023. Congratulations to the students! 

You can read more about their journey in the London Free Press, and listen on CBC London Morning and CBC Ontario Morning. You can also see posts from their experiential learning trip on Instagram @history_at_kings and @kingswarhistory, Facebook and Twitter.

You Still Have Time to Register for Summer Courses!

Summer courses are in full swing, but you still have time to register for courses with start dates in June and July. There are Economics, Philosophy, Sociology and Social Justice and Peace Studies classes with space left, but hurry, as space is limited.

Learn more about summer courses.

Enhanced Access to Accessibility Counselling and Student Development Services

Accessibility Counselling and Student Development has launched a new online appointment booking option and enhanced the way you can access their services! These changes affect the following services:

• Accessibility Services
• Career Counselling
• DARTS (Developing Academic Resiliency, Tenacity, and Skills)
• Learning Skills Services
• Personal Counselling       

Exams Now Centralized in Enrolment Services

As of May 1, 2022, King’s began to transition to a centralized exam office at King’s under the direction of Enrolment Services. This new office will centralize all exam-related functions in one position instead of current process administered by three different offices (ES, ACSD and ADO), which often causes confusion. In addition, all accommodated exams at King’s for students with disabilities will be administered by Western Accommodated Exams, similar to what occurs at Brescia and Huron. The new exam office at King’s will maintain a liaison relationship with Western Accommodated Exams to ensure continuity of support.

Students registered with Accessibility Services (ACSD) will continue to write all their proctored accommodated exams at King’s and there should be little impact to administration and support provided to faculty. Students will still register for accommodated exams in the same fashion, and if they have individual questions they will direct them to accommodatedexams@uwo.ca. Students registered with ACSD have been notified of this change.

The transition will take the next several months, as we seek to align processes and procedures to provide an effective service for students, faculty and staff. We appreciate your patience and support. 

If you have any questions, please contact your Dean of Students, Joe Henry, at joe.henry@kings.uwo.ca.

New Mentorship for King's Student Athletes Recruiting Student Mentors

The Academic Success Program (ASP) Sport at Western is a service that  connects varsity athletes with successful upper-year volunteer peers to give them help with course-specific learning strategies and organizational skills. Starting in September 2022, a satellite of this program will be hosted at King’s by King’s students for King’s athletes. Athletes will find help for taking notes in class, tackling assignments, and managing course loads. 

Student Affairs & Learning Skills Services at King's is currently recruiting King's students to help in the coming academic year (2022 – 2023) by providing weekly drop-in help with learning strategies. Learning Peers providing assistance to our athletes also benefit from the program in a number of ways, including, but not limited to:

• Developing and enhancing their own skills for interpersonal communication
• Becoming more intentional and self aware in their learning by receiving training on different learning strategies
• Learning how to become leaders through helping other students 

Interested students can direct questions to Dr. Adrienne Sauder, Learning Skills Strategist, adrienne.sauder@kings.uwo.ca. You can apply until May 25 on Western Connect.

Western Hosts Asian Heritage Month Speakers

The Office of EDI is hosting two speakers for Asian Heritage Month. 

May 19 from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. - Samya Hasan, Executive Director of Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA).

May 26 from noon – 1 p.m. - Amy Go, President of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC).

Please register and see the description of the speakers and their talks.

Western Hosts EDI Session

This session will introduce the construct and practice of compassion into equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work for students, staff, and faculty interested in EDI at Western University. Participants will be involved in a professional learning community by reading and discussing the book "Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice" by Shakil Choudhury. This event, which runs from June to November 2022, is open to all Western students, staff, and faculty involved or interested in EDI work on campus. 

May 25 at 11 a.m.

Register for this session.

Dr. Burghardt Appears in Documentary

Dr. Madeline Burghardt, Lecturer of Disability Studies, has a role in the documentary, Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children, which played at the Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto during the weekend of May 7-8. The film is about one family's experience of institutionalization. Dr. Burghardt's role concerned her research with institutional survivors and their families.

King's Student-athletes Take Next Step in Pursuing Football Dreams

Congratulations to King’s student-athletes Deionte Knight, Zach Fry, and Daniel Valente, Jr., who were selected in the 2022 Canadian Football League (CFL) Draft, held on May 3, 2022. Knight, a 2nd year, BA Major in History student was drafted in the second round and 10th overall by the Toronto Argonauts. He is a defensive end and is also being scouted by the National Football League (NFL) in the United States.

Read more about these student-athletes.

King's to Provide GBSV Training

As part of a shared commitment to create safe, open campus spaces, Brescia, Huron and King’s University Colleges are launching mandatory gender-based sexual violence (GBSV) prevention training for all student leaders and incoming first-year students.

Read more about this training.

Devant Offers International Students New Career Resources

If you are an international student, you can benefit from King's partnership with Devant, which offers resources and new career development opportunities in Canada for you. To learn more about the partnership between King’s and Devant, please visit our Career Resources for International Students page.

Sign up for Devant.

Upcoming Devant Events

Live Networking Cafe with a Career Coach

May 18 at 6 p.m.

Join Devant team members, Kate & Michelle, for their monthly virtual social! Michelle is a career coach and can answer all your job search questions. Kate moved to Canada from the UK in 2017 and is ready to discuss life in Canada as an international newcomer. 

Register for this free networking cafe. 

Live Workshop: Finding Your Passion

May 25 at 6 p.m.

Are you uncertain about your career path? Attend this live workshop with career coach Michelle, to discuss what a "dream career" means to you and which steps you can take to build it.

Register for this free workshop.

COVID-19 Screening

In keeping with changing regulations and recommendations from the province, Western requires everyone who comes to campus, including affiliate campuses to complete the province's COVID-19 self-assessment. You do not need to complete the self-assessment on days when you don't come to campus.

Visit our COVID-19 FAQ page if you have any questions or are looking for the most up-to-date information.

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Hours of Operation and Contacts



Many of King's administrative offices have adjusted their hours for the summer. Please refer to the Hours of Operation page for the most up-to-date information.