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Revisit, Reunite, Relive at Reunion 2018
A message from Alumni Relations.
Show your Waterloo pride and come back to campus on Saturday, September 22 for Reunion 2018 and join in on this year’s festivities. There will be a full day of activities for staff and faculty to enjoy so come out and enjoy with friends, family and coworkers.
Bring your family dressed in their best costumes and join the 33rd annual Fun Run. Share your memories at the President’s Milestone Luncheon with President Feridun Hamdullahpur and at faculty specific events. Show your UWaterloo pride by cheering on the Warriors football team at the Alumni VIP Tent. There’s something for everyone!
Join us and learn about all the amazing things alumni are doing and tell others about all the great things you’ve been up to. Reunion is for everyone with a personal connection to the University of Waterloo including alumni, staff, faculty, students, and community members.
See the full Reunion 2018 schedule and register for Reunion today!
The art of instilling resilience in our students
This is an excerpt of an article by President Feridun Hamdullahpur that originally appeared on LinkedIn.
It’s the start of a new school year, do you know how I can tell? There were thousands of nervous and proud parents shopping with excited students taking over every grocery store in town this past weekend getting ready for the start of term.
There is something special about the start of Fall term. The change in weather. The excitement of our new Waterloo Warriors starting the next step in their life’s journey. The limitless opportunities in front of them. This feeling cannot be replicated.
Opportunities abound for our students. But with opportunity comes the challenges of making a new reality.
Each generation is faced with its own unique issues both socially and economically. The Generation Z cohort who make up the vast majority of our student body is no different. Articles and pundits like to point to anecdotal stories of Millennials and Generation Z youth not understanding the real world and not realizing how good they have it.
This rhetoric is frustrating, false and overblown.
Is Generation Z facing different challenges to past generations? Absolutely. Are they lazy? Absolutely not.
Our youth have unparalleled potential, drive and opportunity to shape a peaceful and prosperous future for all. But they are also faced with a world that is more competitive, connected and global.
The rates of those with a post-secondary education have skyrocketed. In 1970, 9.66% of Canadians completed a post-secondary education. This jumped to 22.76% by 2010. The United States, Ireland, South Korea and Russia all have higher rates than Canada.
With a global economy that is more interconnected than ever, regardless of tariffs and emerging trade barriers, our youth are facing a world that requires more education, more creativity and more exceptionalism to even compete in today’s economy let alone lead a future economy.
Let those pressures sink in for a moment. It’s a lot to take in for any one.
What our students are in desperate need of is support and the development of resilience to setbacks that come their way.
Building Resilience Starts with Culture
Studies have shown that resilience among university-aged students is in decline. This trend is not caused by any one action or inaction, but the factor that repeatedly comes up is that as our students develop they are rarely given the opportunity to explore, try, fail and then attempt to problem solve the issues on their own.
The pressure on youth to get the right answer as quickly as possible by following a preset, linear path intensifies with every passing year and is limiting their opportunities to learn how to cope.
This inability to cope with challenges can be debilitating if our youth haven’t developed that skill of resiliency. Resilience isn’t about being tough, it’s about acknowledging that stuff happens and when it does, figuring out how to move forward in a productive way.
The problem with resilience, however, is that instilling it in our students takes more than a 2-hour seminar and a handful of Instagram tips for weathering a tough time. It takes a culture change and the mental health supports to help those students in need as they develop their own process for coping with challenges.
At Waterloo, we give our students the room to think, explore, challenge the status quo and be okay with setbacks that will happen along the way. As we do that we are developing talented individuals who are not afraid to try new things like start a business or look globally when developing an idea. It frees them to tap into their creativity and build a future that doesn’t yet exist.
Read the rest of the article on LinkedIn.
Changes to credit card security requirements
A message from Finance.
This is a reminder to all staff and faculty of recent changes to credit card security requirements.
The University of Waterloo is now prohibited from writing down credit card information and cannot request it in writing from credit card holders. Similarly, credit card numbers should never be requested nor sent via email. Transcribed, printed, or emailed credit card information submitted to payment processing areas will not be processed and must be shredded to ensure the safety and security of the card information.
It is the University’s responsibility to ensure that all personal and payment information is protected in accordance with Payment Card Industry standards. Failure to do so may result in significant fines to the University, or the revocation of the University’s ability to process credit card payments.
If you have questions regarding these security requirements, please contact your Department/Faculty Financial Officer to inquire about what is being done to help accommodate these requirements.
Reminder: President's Lecture; other notes
There's still time to register for the upcoming President's Lecture that features Dominic Barton in Conversation: Dimensions of Global Disruption.
Barton, the University of Waterloo's 11th Chancellor, is global managing partner emeritus, McKinsey & Co.
The President's Lecture will take place on Friday, September 21 at 9:30 a.m. in the Humanities Theatre. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. Register on Ticketfi. Admission is free.
The University of Waterloo Recreation Committee (UWRC) is seeing ghosts. Actually, they want you to see Ghost: The Musical, which is playing on Saturday, October 13 a 7:30 p.m. in the St. Jacob's Country Playhouse. For ticket information and other unchained melodies, email Shirley at schatten@uwaterloo.ca. Tickets must be purchased by Wednesday, September 12.
The University Club is hosting a Welcome Back Barbecue on Wednesday, September 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. that features ribs, burgers, shrimp skewers, and veggie kebabs, among other delicious menu items.