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Diversity Work Team

The Diversity Work Team will be making its debut at the staff conference next week. The team is comprised of volunteers from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Its mandate is to promote and support diversity initiatives for both Departments.

The team is pleased to sponsor conference speaker, Andrea O’Neil. O'Neil's presentation, What's Your Generational Lens. Are you a Traditionalist, Boomer, Gen Xer, Millennial or Cusper?, deals with inter-generational diversity in the workplace.

The team will have a display at the staff conference. Team members include, Lyn Ferns, Jason LeBlanc, Susan Moore and Bruce Osborne. Please stop by to say hello and learn more about the Diversity Work Team.

Staff Conference Reminders

Arrangements have been made for increased handicapped parking for this week's staff conference.

There will be increased parking:
1- by the ramp on the left side (if you are facing the front) of Cumming Hall,
2- in front of Cumming Hall,
3- Cox Institute between the greenhouses in the back parking lot,
4- Cox Institute front of building

A van will be available for those who indicated mobility concerns.There is an elevator in Cox Institute. There will also be reserved seating for those with specific requirements.

If there are any other requests, please speak to conference committee members wearing lime green shirts at the event, or contact Grant Spearman at 893- 6538 or spearmjg@gov.ns.ca

We ask that you respect our scent-free policy for the conference. Many people are highly sensitive to perfumes.

Looking for Good Samaritan

On Friday, a good samaritan helped a woman who had fallen on campus. The woman would like to find the girl who helped her. We know her name is Stephanie, she’s in her 20’s with brown hair and may have been here for an interview. If anyone knows Stephanie, please contact Monica Sani by email or phone at 893-3432.

New Face on Campus

Elaine MacInnis joined the MacRae library staff as the new University Librarian on May 4th. She received her Masters of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie’s School of Information Management. Elaine comes from the University of King’s College library where she was employeed for 22 years. Her experience includes lending services, interlibrary loans, information literacy, collections management, digital collections and emerging trends in library technology. She is an active participant in the Novanet Consortium, the Atlantic Scholarly Information Network (ASIN) and the Atlantic Provinces Library Association.

Elaine can be reached at 893-6670 or emacinnis@nsac.ca Please join us in welcoming her to NSAC.

Bookstore Closure

The bookstore will be closed until May 15th. Reopening on Tuesday, May 19th.

For calculus or statistics books and pesticide manuals please contact the Registrar's Office at 893-6722.

For any other concerns or inquiries contact Heather Dawson at 893-2635 or hdawson@nsac.ca

Library Closure

The MacRae Library will be closed from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 14 due to the Work Well Staff Conference.

Convocation Thanks

A lot of positive feedback has been received on the Convocation program this year. A list of suggestions has been prepared to help with next year's planning. Anyone with comments or suggestions are encouraged to send them to Brian Crouse, Lynn Sibley or Theresa Blois, so they can be included with the final report.

The planning committee would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the 104th Convocation ceremony, specifically:

- Roseanne Chapman — for preparing the script cards to introduce the graduating students
- Elizabeth Johnson, Linda Rovers, Brittany Allum, Angela Brown-Fulton, Debbie Mellish — for serving as ushers
- Jenna Tingley, Jo-Anne Jordan, Marie Law, Sylvia McKoy — for pinning
- Monica Sani and Ashley Shepard — for setting up the photo backdrop
- Sabrina McGee — for media relations and photography
- Nancy McLean — for preparing the student line up
- Darwin Carr — for arranging the class tree and its planting
- Tarjei Tennessen, Steve Russell and Kent Loughead — for participating in the graduation banquet
- Heather Hughes — for assisting with the rehearsal and on-stage presentations
- Sandra Murphy — for preparing the photo list and coordinating award selection

Recruitment Update

This was a busy weekend for the recruitment team. During 4H weekend Janet judged the public speaking event. She also took 40 parents and 4H members on a tour around campus in the rain.

I attended the Nova Scotia International Student Program event at CEC. This event brought together international students from high schools all over Nova Scotia. This is the third year this for this successful event. Universities and colleges were invited to deliver scholarships and awards to graduating students. I had the privilege of awarding an entrance scholarship to Jaeho (Antonio) Choi. He will be attending NSAC in the fall, entering the Aquaculture program.

This weekend also marked the second annual Atlantic Horse Fair at the AgriDome. It drew a large crowd. Many of which stopped by NSAC's booth to ask questions and view the display. Thank you to Carollyn Crewe and Lauranne Sanderson for setting up the display and working at the booth.

I also want to thank Amanda Greaves, who accompanied me to the NSISP event and horse fair.

Until next time,
Ashley

Scholarship Spotlight

Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists Scholarship Presented
Kendra Juurlink, Antigonish, NS, was the 2008 recipient of the $1,000 Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists Scholarship. Kendra is a third year B.Sc.(Agr) Animal Science student. Shown congratulating Kendra is Bob Vair, Executive Director, NSIA.

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