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Submission guidelines
Concur automated workflow coming June 1
A message from Finance.
Finance is working with Concur to automate the expense approval workflow within Concur. Beginning June 1, 2021, Concur will automatically pull appropriate Supervisory information from Workday and Financial Approver information from Unit4 to route claims for expense approvals automatically.
In order to allow the transition from the ‘old’ manual workflow to the ‘new’ automatic workflow, all claims in process (submitted) must complete the existing manual approval workflow before the new workflow goes into effect.
To facilitate this, Concur will prohibit any submissions of expense reimbursement claims from May 17 to May 31 to allow existing claims to finish being processed. All non-FPER claims that Claimants wish to have processed before the submission block goes into effect should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than end of day, Sunday, May 16, 2021. Unsubmitted claims will not be affected.
Non-FPER claims still pending approval at the end of the day on May 31st will be sent back to the Claimant for resubmission once the new workflow is activated on June 1st.
We ask that Approvers be diligent in approving claims within Concur so that the workflow can be cleared quickly for transition.
FPER claims that were submitted prior to April 15 (the FPER submission deadline) may be corrected and resubmitted, where required, until end of day, Sunday, May 16, 2021 at the latest. Please note, Concur will not be reopening for submission of any 2021 FPER claims after June 1. FPER submissions will remain closed for rollover recalculations until the normal July reopen date for the new year only.
Full details on the new workflow can be found on the Finance website and Finance Resources news site.
Keep Learning Team provides remote teaching drop-ins and support
A message from the Keep Learning Team.
Looking for support in creating your Spring 2021 remote course? The Keep Learning team is here to help. Many of our past events have been recorded and are available for viewing.
Events and Workshops
- Upcoming: Spring Remote Teaching Drop-in Support with your CTE and CEL colleagues
Teaching Assistant Support
- LEARN for TAs May 5 and May 18
- Teaching Assistant Training (CTE)
- TA Resources
One-on-one support:
- For course design support, email remoteteaching@uwaterloo.ca. Staff from CTE, CEL and the Library monitor this email from Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- For technical support with LEARN and other supported educational technology tools, email learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca.
- Visit the Crowdmark website for Crowdmark support.
- For answers to copyright questions, email copyright@uwaterloo.ca.
Online Resources:
- Editable templates for your course are now available in LEARN.
- Visit Strategies for Remote Teaching for a helpful course design starting point.
- The Copyright website provides answers to the most frequently asked copyright questions about remote teaching.
- Facilitating Engagement: Facilitating Online Courses in Higher Ed on CEL's Open Resource site provides an in-depth exploration of online teaching through the lens of student engagement.
- Bookstore or library? See Textbooks, Readings, and Course Content.
- For a self-paced experience that guides you through building your online course, check out iReCoDE - Independent Remote Course Design Essentials
- Register for the Instructor Resources for Student Success LEARN site, offered by the Academic Integrity Office.
Tips on accessibility and academic integrity are also available to help you set your students up for success.
2021 Arts Awards recipients named
This is an excerpt of an article originally featured on the Faculty of Arts website.
Nine years ago when the Arts Awards were established by Dean Douglas Peers, we couldn't have imagined the challenge that teaching, working and learning in a pandemic would bring. Our remarkable community has more than risen to that challenge, and we had a record year for nominations for the Arts Awards for Service, Teaching and Research.
Please join us in congratulating this year's recipients:
Excellence in Service
Rita Cherkewski (Graduate Studies and Research)
If you work in the grad world at the University of Waterloo, you know Rita. She is one of the most respected graduate officers on campus and went above and beyond to assist many during the remote shift. Her exceptional service and unwavering commitment to graduate students is the embodiment of what makes UWaterloo and the Faculty of Arts great.
Richard Eibach (Psychology)
Over seven years as associate chair, Richard has been extraordinarily devoted to Psychology's huge undergraduate program. Every decision he makes has student experience at its core. His dedication extends beyond campus, addressing violence and discrimination experienced by members of LGBTQ2+ communities. He is a cherished instructor, advocate, colleague and friend to everyone, and most especially to students.
Kayla Lorentz (Arts Undergraduate Office)
During the shift to remote learning, and in Kayla’s first few months as Manager of Academic Advising, she had to handle an astounding number of truly unprecedented challenges. With phenomenal grace and good judgement, she takes great care to balance students’ needs for more complex support with the well-being of the Arts advising team.
Kim Nguyen (Communication Arts)
Kim provides exceptional service and leadership within the university, including work on the FAUW Equity Committee, the President's Anti-Racism Task Force, W5’s Writing Retreat, and as Faculty representative for W3+, and the Indigenization Working Group. Notably, she led transformational changes in the W3+ organization to become more inclusive of gender, racial and sexual diversity.
MFA thesis exhibits and other notes
Just in time for World Art Day, the Department of Fine Arts is inviting you to check out the work of Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates Racquel Rowe and Karice Mitchell in partership with the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG). "While MFA thesis exhibitions will be installed on site, the gallery remains closed in response to the ongoing pandemic and current lockdown," says a note from UWAG.
Racquel Rowe
The Chicken Is Just Dead First
The Chicken Is Just Dead First is a euphemism borrowed from a series of short stories by Zalika Read Benton called Frying Plantain. The collection details the life of a first generation Canadian of Jamaican heritage. It sums up the differences between island life and living in Canada. Exploring the notion of compulsory visibility and subverting dominant ideologies, the exhibition embodies and embraces the differences and similarities between the various black experiences across the diaspora. Engaging in critical conversations around race to furthers ones’ own ability to break away from colonial representations.
Racquel Rowe is a performance artist who explores the way history has shaped modern day depictions of Black people, culture and thus how these things affect her lived experience. Rowe is based in Waterloo, Ontario but hails from the island of Barbados where most of the inspiration is drawn for her current body of work.
Karice Mitchell
1b, black legs, 52"
1b, black legs, 52” is an effort to reconcile with history. Through the re-contextualization of black pornographic images primarily using digital-based processes, this exhibition serves as a re-imagining of what black women’s futures could be. By creating images that are hyper-visible in presentation yet ambiguous in their representation, these works seek to foster images of the black female body that demand to be seen and understood removed from the historical construction of blackness that has been upheld and perpetuated through white supremacy. Giving the black female body new meaning we can begin to foster new possibilities for it to be understood differently and to exist in its multiplicity. This show cultivates space for black women and their sexuality to be unapologetically represented while also allowing ourselves the grace to acknowledge the historical legacy of racism in an effort to subvert it, ultimately, striving towards reclaiming our agency.
Karice Mitchell is a photo-based installation artist whose practice uses found imagery and digital manipulation to engage with issues relating to the representation of the black female body in pornography and popular culture. Her work seeks to re-contextualize pre-existing images to reimagine the possibilities for black womanhood and sexuality detached from the white gaze and patriarchy.
"Please join us in celebrating the work of our MFA candidates during this time of transition," says UWAG. Both exhibitions open virtually on April 15 with updated exhibition documentation to be posted on April 19.
Elaina Mohr, a Bachelor of Arts Student with a Major in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Minor in Religious Studies, has been selected to present at the 2021 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, which is taking place from April 15 to 17. This year’s conference will take place virtually, in a fully online format, and focuses on the theme, “Beyond the Surface: Moving the Needle on Global Peace."
Mohr will give a presentation entitled, “Living in spaces of reconciliation: An analysis of the role of communal living space in reconciliation processes in post-conflict Northern Ireland,” on Friday, April 16, at 4:30 p.m. EST. Mohr’s paper will emphasize, “the role of intentional communal living space in reconciliation.” Mohr was selected to present from a pool of 56 proposals submitted by students or student teams. She is one of over 50 students from 19 colleges and universities around the world who are presenting their own research, practice and projects in the interdisciplinary field of peace studies during the conference.
The Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, endowed by Joan B. Kroc and sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is an annual event organized by students and for students. Its mission is to provide space for students from all colleges and universities to dialogue about peacebuilding, social justice, and conflict transformation. Each year, the event draws hundreds of students from across North America and around the world.
In other news, Professor Bessma Momani of the Political Science department recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post about the current political situation in Jordan.