Past+Events

= = GES Annual General Meeting Thursday, September 25 from 12:30-1:30PM in the Grad Lounge (room 103A, Marshall D'Avray Hall). Please come out and help us form our team!

We are seeking executive members for the GES for the 2014-2015 academic year. There are several positions for which you can run:
- President - Vice-President - Secretary - Treasurer - Webmaster - Distance Ed Representative

Involvement with the GES is a great CV builder and gives you the opportunity to learn more about your Faculty and fellow graduate students. Meetings are typically held monthly, and the time commitment is not overwhelming. We hope you will consider becoming involved with the student society! Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday September 25!

**Faculty of Education WIPS- Work In Progress Sessions**

 Works in Progress Session (WIPS) are informal presentations given by Education graduate students, faculty and staff on their ideas and research. Each session has two 15 minute presentations followed by a discussion. Everyone is welcome! Please bring your lunch and join us.
 * Location: room 308, Marshall d’Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton**
 * Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 to 1:15pm**

February 12 February 26 March 26 April 9
 * WINTER 2014:**
 * John Grant McLoughlin – Mathematical outreach: faces and places
 * Phil Lambert – Creating creativity
 * Soudeh Oladi Ghadikolaei – Challenging educational instrumentalism through the works of Rumi
 * Renee Bourgoin – A week at the International School in Geneva, Switzerland: Program structure and teacher professional development
 * Samuel LeBlanc – The virtue of epistemic transparency: Searching for epistemic clarity in an opaque world
 * Sherrie-Lynn Jeannette Dogurga– Nomadic subjectivities– local ideas
 * Brian Beaton – Education and learning opportunities in six remote First Nations
 * Bill Morrison – Schools as a milieu for positive mental health practices

Winter 2014 organizing committee: Mary Blatherwick (mlb@unb.ca) & Linda Eyre (leyre@unb.ca) =

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=The Call for Papers closes on February 21st. The form can be downloaded from []​ =



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 * **Tuesday, February 18, 2014**
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 * **Wednesday, February 19, 2014**
 * 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM || **ATLAS.ti Workshop** Instructor: Ricardo Contreras || [[image:http://www.cvent.com/g/images/pix.gif]] ||
 * **Thursday, February 20, 2014**
 * 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM || **MAXQDA Workshop** Instructor: Julia Schehl || [[image:http://www.cvent.com/g/images/pix.gif]] ||
 * 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM || **NVivo Workshop** Instructor: Cynthia Jacobs || [[image:http://www.cvent.com/g/images/pix.gif]] ||




 * GES UPDATE - October 8, 2013 - From Sarah King, GES President **

A big thank you to all of you who turned out for our Annual General Meeting on Friday. We successfully elected our 2013-2014 Executive so without further ado, allow me to introduce us:


 * President:** Sarah King
 * Vice-President:** Sherrie-Lynn Dogurga
 * Treasurer:** Cynthia Wallace-Casey
 * Secretary:** Katharine Bartlett
 * Webmaster:** Brian Beaton

There are still other ways to get involved with the Graduate Education Society if you're not wanting to be part of the Executive. There are a number of committees on which graduate student representation is required. A short description of the committees and the position requirements follows:


 * GAU (Graduate Academic Unit):** The GES provides one representative to sit on this committee, whose responsibility is to represent graduate student interests in discussions of issues related to the graduate programs in Education. The committee meets approximately once a month, and meetings run approximately an hour and a half. The GES representative would be responsible for reporting relevant discussion points from the meeting to the GES Executive.


 * GSC (Graduate Studies Committee):** A sub-committee of the GAU, the GSC provides a smaller venue for more in-depth discussion of issues raised at GAU meetings. The GSC will seek student and faculty feedback on changes to policies and procedures, etc as needed, and the GES representative will represent graduate student interests in those discussions. The committee meets approximately every 6 weeks, for approximately 2 hours, though there may be further meetings during times when there is a lot to discuss. The GES representative would be responsible for reporting relevant discussion points from meetings and seeking student feedback through the GES Executive.


 * GSA (Graduate Student Association):** This association represents graduate students UNB-wide, and discusses issues relating to graduate students across campus. Education is required to have three representative (counsellors) at meetings, and our funding is tied to our attendance at these meetings so they are obviously very important! Counsellors would be required to attend one meeting a month (usually on Tuesday evenings) and meetings last between 1 and 2 hours. They would also be responsible for collecting our funding cheques and bringing them to the GES Treasurer or President.

If you are interested in getting involved as a representative on any of these committees, please email gese@unb.ca. We look forward to a great year in the Faculty of Education and hope to see many of you at our meetings and social events. Once a meeting schedule has been determined, we'll send it around via email and post it on the fridge in the graduate lounge (103A). If you have anything you'd like to see the Executive work with this year, please don't hesitate to ask! For more information about the GES, consult our Wiki page at: http://unbgese.wikispaces.com.

Best, Sarah King

Reminder: GES Professional Development Awards
March 26, 2013

We would like to remind graduate students that the Graduate Education Society (GES) offers professional development grants to help students in their academic endeavours. An application for a GES grant can be made for any academic work carried out by the student, and is not confined to financial aid towards field research or presentations at conferences. We encourage you to apply if you anticipate incurring any expenses during your graduate work. The application form is available to download from our GES Professional Development Awards page.

We wish you all success in your studies, and I look forward to seeing you at forthcoming GES events.

= =Graduate Education Society - 2013-2014 Meeting Schedule=

Executive Committee Meetings
> 12:30-1:30PM >> November 4 >> December 2 >> January 6 >> February 3 >> March 3 >> April 7
 * Held in Marshall D’Avray Hall Room 103A (Graduate Student Lounge)

Open Meetings
> 3:30-5:30PM >> November 15 >> December 6 (Special Holiday Meeting, details TBA!) >> January 17 >> February 28 >> March 28 >> April 25 (Special End of Year Meeting, details TBA!)
 * Held at The Grad House (676 Windsor Street)

All graduate students in Education are welcome to attend any meetings.
Please forward any questions, concerns, or items for discussion to gese@unb.ca

**NOTES from meetings attended by GES members:**

**Feb 19, 2014 - Notes taken at GAU meeting attended by** Sariné Willis-O'Connor
 * The faculty of education's research ranking is a level 3, which is the same as last year's ranking. The faculty are unsure whether this is based on objective measures or not, as well as how the GRA and GTA money is allocated.
 * A motion was passed to invite Dr. Biden to attend the next GAU meeting to discuss how funding for grad students is decided.
 * The new online system for M.Ed. and PhD application was discussed.
 * A course called Creativity in Education was added to the curriculum.

Information from Committee Reports • Satinder Gil, VP Special Events (also Chair of the Graduate Research Conference Committee) is away for the next month to get married. Amy Carrier (Nursing) presented information about GRC in his place. It is my understanding that she is Co-Chair, but this is unclear. • Carolyn Szuter, VP Academic attended the last Senate meeting and provided the following updates of items that were discussed there: o Information about spring convocation was discussed. Students can email her for information. o The Back to Work Protocol was discussed. Students can email her for more information. o An Accessibility Advisory Report was discussed. Students can email her for more information. o A student was at the Grad House trying to meet with Carolyn, but Carolyn wasn’t there. The student only left their name and student number, so Carolyn has no way of getting in touch with them. Carolyn would like everyone to circulate the information that she can’t locate students from their student numbers. Also, if anyone knows who was looking for her, please tell them to get back in touch. o A question was raised about TA and RA hours and how the longer semester will impact their pay. Carolyn believes that Senate agreed to pay them, but she isn’t sure. She will check and post the answer on the website.  I followed up with her after the meeting, and her response was: Jacqueline Seely and she told me that the school of grad studies is still waiting to hear from administration about funding in this regard. Once everything has been determined details will be shared with students and we will all get an email, either from the school of grad studies or from HR directly. Hopefully we will know in the next few weeks, but it might take some time.
 * Feb 19, 2014 - Notes taken at GSA meeting attended by** A. Katharine Bartlett

The GSA budget was passed with minor changes. The changes include: • Minor changes due to more exact student numbers for SJ. • Student Media Fund increased to $1000. • Accounting Audit and Legal Fees decreased to $6000. • The creation of a dedicated legal fund to accumulate a legal defense fund in the event it is ever required. To do this: o Accounting, Audit and Legal Fees changed to Accounting and Audit Fees. o Accounting and Audit Fees allocated $4500. o Legal Fund allocated $1500.
 * Budget Passed**

There were two points of discussion regarding this bylaw: • Chairing committees is a source of professional development. More students should have opportunities to engage in these activities. It should not be limited to Executive members. o Response: Few students are interested in being on committees. There needs to be greater oversight by Executive members because many committees have budgets and are spending GSA money. • If Executive members are also chairing committees, they could be seen to be double- or triple-dipping on honorariums. For example, the VP Special Events also Chairs the Orientation and Graduate Research Conference committees. o Response: Orientation and GRC are a lot of work. Honorariums are provided to recognize the amount of work involved in organizing the committees. The official chair also has the ability to appoint a co-chair and to share all or a portion of their honorarium. GSA has a line in the budget called “Student Media Fund”. This provides funding to The Brunswickan and a journal (Qwerty?) produced by grad students in the Department of English. We should recommend to AEGSC that they pursue this funding either for printing a proceedings of the conference or for printing the Journal.
 * Bylaw II: GSA Committees passed its second reading**
 * Recommendation**

**Questions? We have some answers… Your FAQ from the GES Executive** At the recent GES meeting, several students asked questions about the impact of the AUNBT strike/lockout on their studies. We passed those questions along to Dr. Sherman, Dean of Education and she was kind enough to take the time answer them. Her answers are below. [|http://www.unblabour.ca] and []both have more information. If you still have questions, you can email gese@unb.ca and we will try to help as best we can.

There has been no break in their placements. Dr. Wagner (dwagner@unb.ca) has sent an email to all students in the Counseling stream to clarify this. Please contact him if you have any questions.
 * //During the AUNBT strike/lockout can students in the M.Ed. Counseling stream proceed with their counseling placements?//**

Faculties do not look after the financial payments like tuition so Laurelle Lavert ( laurelle.levert@unb.ca ) or Financial Services (__ http://www.unb.ca/financialservices/contact/index.html __) might be able to answer this for you. Laurelle is the Assistant VP in Saint John and is the student union contact person. [|http://www.unblabour.ca/students/#finances] also has information about how student loans might be impacted.
 * //Student Loans, SSHRC funding, scholarships, etc. – what might happen?//**

I haven't heard whether we will have compressed or extended semesters. It totally depends on the length of the labour action. The only contingency plans I have seen are for extending terms (adding on a week or two) so that the face-to-face hours and course requirements remain the same.
 * //In a compressed semester will course requirements (i.e. assignments, readings) remain the same?//**

Comprehensive exams are generally allotted a certain time period by whomever is setting the exam. The strike days do not count in those days. You get the same period of time days even if it is a compressed term as comprehensive exams aren't really dependent on terms. You need to complete three exams in a year.
 * //How will comprehensive exam deadlines be affected?//**

The labour action would have to last a very long time for a term/semester to be lost. We have not decided on what to do if it lasts longer than four months as we are still hopeful both sides with negotiate a settlement. Students would not be required to complete a second year of full time residency.
 * //Could the residency requirement for Ph.D. students be affected?//**

TAs are not working now so they would be expected to complete the course work with the prof and the students when the course resumes and will paid the same amount. As we originally committed to them. There are no additional weeks of work. The weeks would, however, be occurring at a different time than originally planned.
 * //If the semester is extended will TA’s be paid for the additional weeks of the course?//**

TAs are getting paid for, say, a 3 credit course worth of work and so whether it is compressed or extended there is the same amount of work. The work may occur outside of the time period when they had planned to do it. Professors will be thoughtful about this as they return to work as everyone will be completing their work at a time different than originally planned when the term started.
 * //If the semester is compressed, without course expectations being reduced it will likely result in additional work for TA’s. Will they be compensated for additional hours?//**

**Upcoming Education Event hosted by AUNBT on Thursday, January 30, 7 to 8pm at 698 McLeod Ave**
The members of The Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers at UNB engage in teaching, research, scholarly, and creative work across a range of disciplines. We would like to share a taste of that work with our students and the public through a series called UNB in an Hour. Each 60 minute session with focus on a theme or question on which six faculty members and librarians will offer brief 8 minute perspectives emanating from their own work. The first of these will take place this Thursday evening, January 30 at 7 - 8 p.m at Strike Headquarters 698 McLeod Ave. The six short talks will all focus on the theme Learning. All are welcome so please pass this along to colleagues, the public, students and any others who might be interested. For more information contact Alan Sears at amsears54@gmail.com

=Letters from GES to Faculty and Graduate Student Association expressing student concerns about the strike=

=UPDATE ON UNB Labour Issues between Professors and Administration= =** For information about the UNB Professors' Union work position: **=
 * The union's web site at []
 * The union's facebook page at []


 * For information about UNB Administration's work position:**
 * UNB Administration's bargaining update site at []

For information about supporting UNB faculty visit any of the following facebook pages: > [] > [] ++++++++ With the outsourcing of UNB student email to Microsoft, this recorded event is very timely for all UNB students, staff and faculty...
 * UNBF Students Supporting AUNBT at
 * UNBSJ Students Supporting AUNBT at
 * WATCH THE RECORDED SESSIONS ONLINE (see below)**

Watch the **[|Teach-in on University e-Services Outsourcing to U.S. Corporations]** **Nov 16, 2013 9AM-4PM** [|iSchool, 140 St. George, University of Toronto]

The University of Toronto is planning to outsource staff and faculty email to Microsoft. This is of concern in light of the recent Snowden revelations because it further exposes communications to warrantless NSA surveillance, with accompanying risks to democratic rights, notably privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of association. Microsoft is partnered with the NSA PRISM program, and its encryption measures potentially compromised. As with any US corporation, Canadians' personal information would be subject to US jurisdiction, where it has no legal protection.

Hear from experts and stakeholders, and join the discussion of internet surveillance issues relevant to all Canadians. If you can't attend in-person, check out the live streaming and web-archive via the [|iSchool’s YouTube channel]


 * Teach-in Program ** []

Morning session is available at ** [] **
9AM Welcome: Seamus Ross, Dean, iSchool, UofT
 * Opening remarks: Andrew Clement, iSchool, UofT, organizer

9:15-10:45AM Session One: **Introductory keynotes**
 * Bob Cook, CIO, UofT: "Proposed project to migrate UofT faculty and staff email to Microsoft Office 365"
 * Caspar Bowden, former Microsoft chief privacy advisor: "How the US crafted secret mass-surveillance laws for foreign Cloud data, without any legal rights or redress"

11AM-12:30PM Session Two: **External experts**
 * Roger Singh, CTO, Scalar Decisions "Canadian options for university outsourcing"
 * Jim Turk, Executive Director, CAUT, “Putting academics at risk – university outsourcing of email and electronic services.”
 * Sukanya Pillay, Executive Director (Acting), CCLA "Civil liberties and state surveillance"
 * Avner Levin, Law & Business Department, Ryerson U "Outsourcing email at Ryerson U"

Lunch 12:30-1:30PM

Afternoon session available at []
1:30-2:45PM Session Three: **Stakeholders**
 * Heidi Bohaker, Department of History, UofT, "States, Power, and Information Technology: Perspectives from History"
 * Scott Prudham, President, University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) "Faculty perspectives on UofT outsourcing"
 * Paul Tsang/alternate, President, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1998 "Staff perspectives on UofT outsourcing"

3-4PM Session Four: Wrap up: Where do we go from here? ___ Live streaming and web-archived via the [|iSchool’s YouTube channel] [|Teach-in Facebook page] [|#UofTOutsourcingUS] Contact: andrew.clement@utoronto.ca
 * Open discussion: panelists TBD, mainly invited from above speakers as available.

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=Other Past Events=

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Calling all Graduate Students in Education! Join the Graduate Education Society (GES) for its first open meeting of the year!** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Date: Friday, November 15 at 3:30PM **at** The Grad House (676 Windsor Street) Come and enjoy some pizza and drinks, meet the Graduate Education Society Executive members, and the opportunity to chat with your fellow grad students in Education. If you have ideas for social events, academic workshops, or support your GES can provide for you, bring those along too! Hope to see you there. Sarah King, GES President, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">on behalf of the GES Executive Committe


 * 2013 Atlantic Education Graduate Student Conference: ** held at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus on ** July 6, 2013 ** with feature keynote speaker Dr. Ted Christou from Queen’s University speaking to our theme: ** Starting Conversations: Emerging Graduate Research in Education ** . We are pleased to announce that our application for a SSHRC Connection Grant was been successful.

Date: April 18th, 2013 - 11:00am Location: Grad Lounge, Marshall d'Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton //* A very productive meeting -- thanks to everyone who could attend! *//
 * GES Discussion on Teaching/Mentoring in the Doctoral Program** - with Dr. David Wagner, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs.

Date: March 12th, 2013 - 4:00pm Location: Grad Lounge, Marshall d'Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton
 * GES Discussion with the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network**

//Dr. Landine currently sits on the Research Ethics Board, and will be presenting and answering questions on the REB process for approval of research at UNB. If you are conducting a research project or thesis, this talk will be invaluable to you!// Date: February 21st, 2013 - 11:00am Location: Grad Lounge, Marshall d'Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton
 * Ethics Workshop with Dr. Jeff Landine**

Date: Friday, February 1st, 2013 at 7pm //*A great success - thank you to everyone who attended!*//
 * Graduate Education Society Social - Wine & Cheese**

"Mixed Methods or Just Mixed Up About Methods: Perspectives on Categorizing Approaches to Research in Education" Presenter: Dr. Alan Sears Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 Location: Grad Lounge, Marshall d'Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton
 * 2012/2013 Qualitative Research Series**

Date: Saturday, July 7, 2012 Location: Alden Nowlan House/Grad House, UNB Fredericton
 * GES Barbecue at the Atlantic Education Graduate Student Conference**

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
 * End of Year Social: Dinner at Sam Snead's Oak Grill and Tavern (in Kingswood Park), Fredericton**

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2012 Panelists: Andrea Schneider, Dr. Ellen Rose, Dr. Melissa White, Dr. Linda Eyre Location: Marshall d'Avray Hall 261, UNB Fredericton
 * Discussion Panel: Interviewing in Qualitative Research **

Date: Monday, January 16, 2012 Events: Meet and Greet, Workshop, Building Tour, Q & A, in Grad Lounge; Dinner at the Grad House, UNB Fredericton
 * GES Winter Orientation **

Date:Monday, January 16, 2012 Presenter: Dr. Emery Hyslop-Margison Location: Grad Lounge, Marshall d'Avray Hall, UNB Fredericton
 * Workshop on CV Preparation and Academic Job Application **