Jan 26th, 2018
A session in Windsor on Thursday, February 1, will provide an overview of the Master of Social Work for Working Professionals program.
Danielle Handsor
The Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp annual exhibit gives local First Nations, Metis and Inuit youth the opportunity to display the artwork that they have created at the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp this year.
Sep 8th, 2015
The Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp will be hosting its annual art exhibit, Art of this Land, on Saturday, September 12
Twenty Aboriginal youth developed their artistic skills at the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp.
Jul 30th, 2015
Twenty Aboriginal youth took part in at the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp which took place July 6 to 24.
Russell Nahdee, coordinator of the Aboriginal Education Centre, beats a dewega, a traditional First Nations drum, during a lesson for a Grade 5 class at St. Peter Catholic Elementary school.
Mar 10th, 2015
A new campus-community partnership combines the grade school curriculum with traditional culture and teachings.
Artist Alex McKay discusses his work with student Michelle Rovere.
Feb 23rd, 2015
Dozens of people turned out February 14 for an art event co-hosted by the Aboriginal Education Centre—and a chance to get creative themselves.
Artist Alex McKay and UWindsor photographer Tory James brought their 12-foot sculpture Treaty Canoe to St. Paul’s United Church. The project is constructed like a birch bark canoe, but made up of paper covered with handwritten text.
These traditional drums are among the works created by local Aboriginal youth participating in the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp.
Jul 14th, 2014
Participants in the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp will display some of their handiwork Thursday on Windsor’s riverfront.
May 26th, 2014
Local First Nations, Metis and Inuit youth are invited to the Turtle Island Summer Arts Camp.
Volunteers receive training to act as mentors to new first-generation university students, Tuesday in the CAW Student Centre.
Sep 6th, 2013
The Connecting4Success program provides mentoring for first-generation students, whose parents have no experience with post-secondary education.
Almost 200 advice gurus assisted more than 200 first-year students with their transition to university through the Educational Development Centre’s Connecting4Success mentorship program this year.
The program targets first generation students—the first in their families to attend university—and matches them with upper-year students in the same program or faculty. Throughout their first year, students meet one-on-one with their advice gurus and attend monthly meetings that focus on common first-year academic, social and personal challenges.
As a student new to Canada, Syeda Fariha found it difficult to adjust to the differing expectations of her professors. She transferred to Windsor in fall 2011 after two years studying economics in her native Bangladesh.
“In the beginning, I had no friends and I was struggling with my studies,” she recalls. “I was frustrated and disappointed.”
However, Connecting4Success and other programs of the Educational Development Centre have helped her gain confidence.