Development and External Relations Update

The Development and External Relations office UPDATE is a monthly summary of activities in the section and is published for your general information. If you have questions, please contact Jim Goit or call at (902) 893-7950

• AgriTECH Park
• External Relations
  • The Development and External Relations office hosted the NDP candidates meeting and coffee break in the Library. The party ultimately won the election.
  • Laurie and Jim attended a meeting on the BioAccelerator facility at ATP. The proposal is to fund a new facility for research and development
  • Laurie Sandeson and Jim met with John Sullivan regarding IT at AgriTech Park
  • Jim attended a reception for retirement of Dr. Harold Cook at Dal Medical School.  Dr. Cook is an NSAC alumnus.
• Marketing
  • Executed materials related to NSAC Spotlight, NSAC's new recognition program for students, staff and faculty;
  • Continued development of brand development activities for the year;
  • Negotiated project scope for applicant and competitive intelligence studies for NSAC;
  • Began discussions with Canada Post to improve direct mail capacity at NSAC;
  • Began creative process to establish look/feel for Vet Tech promotional material;
  • Identified new opportunity to improve learning outcomes in our classrooms via document design and printing methods
• Communications and Alumni
  • Jim and Alisha attended the national CCAE conference in Hamilton.
  • Jim and Alisha hosted an Alumni meeting at University of Guelph. There was a good turn out.
  • Jim and Alisha organized and participated in a Truro area alumni gathering and golf game at River Run Golf Club.  It was a successful event.
  • Jim attended the Class of ’56 reunion at Liscombe Lodge.
• 74 Found/changed alumni records this month
• Development and Fund Raising
  • Mr Sodhi who did this month and Jim attended his memorial service.  He worked with the family on a new memorial scholarship.
  • Jim met with several new prospective donors and developed a proposal for a new scholarship.
  • The annual meeting of the NSAC Foundation and Alumni Association were held during the month.  There was significant preparation time and follow-up to these meeting.
  • There was a great deal of work on the Datatel conversion and setup project. Training was completed and the new system went live mid month.
  • Jim and Mike had a demo of a web based Scholarship program.  It was more suitable for the Awards office and was referred them

• Website
  • Visix channel player has been installed in Cox. Monitor should be in place in July.
  • Visix screensavers (10) and server component has been ordered.
  • New frontpage tweaks continue and should be up and running in July.
  • Mike did a demo of web editing for Engineering staff.
  • Openhouse and New Student Orientation pages are up and running.
  • Mike with with Roseanne at Career Services to develop a new online job posting form, as well as help prepare the Career Fair site for January.