Events

In this session, faculty will be shown how work-integrated learning can be used to create meaningful learning experiences for Waterloo students through engagement with industry or community partners in WIL 611: Interdisciplinary Community/Industry Research Project.  

Hosted by: Organizational and Human Development 

Facilitator: Chun Chih Chen 

MS Teams 

In today’s rapidly changing work environment, building strong and impactful work relationships is crucial to innovation, efficiency, and organizational success. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to read, understand, respond to, and manage the emotions in ourselves and others. It encourages self-awareness, internal self-regulation, and the exploration of diverse perspectives. Through effective and authentic communication, emotional intelligence will create positive relationships within our personal and professional lives. 

As the University of Waterloo strives to advance accessibility and disability inclusion on our campuses, consultation and community engagement play a key role in amplifying the equity-denied voices. Where the previous Accessibility Advisory Panel focused primarily on community engagement through one-way communication, the newly proposed Disability Affinity Program seeks to build community space for students, staff, and faculty with disabilities or neurodivergence to facilitate more authentic consultation opportunities.

In this session, instructors are invited to share their ideas and feedback on the development of the Disability Affinity Program as a potential, future space for instructors with disabilities to seek mentorship, peer support, networking, and knowledge exchange.

Join Nadine Fladd (Writing and Communication Centre) and Kari D. Weaver (Library) in this 90-minute online workshop as they discuss the potential and challenges for supervisors of navigating graduate students’ use of generative artificial intelligence for research and writing. Building off their successful Generative AI in the Literature Review: A Workshop for Graduate Students this workshop will share insights from student experience along with recommendations and resources for framing a collaborative conversation with your graduate students. Participants will have the opportunity to consider the myriad ways generative artificial intelligence is being used in research and writing tasks and explore productive and ethical adaptations across academic disciplines.

Outcomes:

• Participants will consider uses of generative artificial intelligence in graduate research and writing.
• Participants will discover recommendations and resources for discussing generative artificial intelligence with their graduate students.

This session is co-sponsored by the CTE, GSPA, Library, and WCC.

Work-Learn (WxL) is the only research unit in the world dedicated to the study and advancement of work-integrated learning (WIL), such as co-operative education experiences. Participants in this session will receive an introduction to who we are at WxL and how WxL has advanced WIL at the University of Waterloo and beyond. This session will include insights into our recent research projects, consulting work, and education initiatives. As much as possible, the importance and value of this work will be presented from a variety of lenses – we aim to highlight how we support all our stakeholders including students, faculty, community and employee partners, various levels of government, and the national and international WIL communities. We will share findings and insights on topics such as the faculty differences that emerged from our Gen Z research, accessibility and accommodations in WIL for students from equity-deserving groups, and the role of student-faculty partnerships in enhancing teaching and learning. Additionally, we will share some of our upcoming education initiatives, such as our training certificate program that is in development, geared towards WIL supervisors.