According to the Committee on Student Mental Health (CoSMH), almost three-quarters of recommendations from the March 2018 President’s Advisory Committee on Student Mental Health’s (PAC-SMH) report are either in progress or have been implemented. That amounts to 26 out of 36 recommendations in total.
While studying for my Arts degree, I explored a number of different career paths, but none really seemed right for me.
After graduation, I found myself unsure of what I wanted to do, so I started working as an Administrative Assistant while I figured out my next steps. As it turned out, I had found my calling, and a natural companion to my Arts degree. Administration has allowed to me to channel my love for organization, systems and processes, and combine them with my love of helping people and making a difference in my community.
Taking things to an extreme is something that I have always enjoyed.
Before heading to university, I spent a year learning basic stunts, jumping out of four-story buildings, and learning how to skydive, all well before YouTube was popular. While spinning through the air is entertaining, as a performer I was going to need to learn much more. I enrolled at the University of Waterloo as my career seemed to have no real path unless it was directed by gravity.
Banner photo by Tomasz Adamski
It all began as a more profound way of thinking about community.
Now, with over three decades and numerous subsequent projects to its name, The Working Centre is a local legacy beaming brightly from the heart of downtown Kitchener.
Founded by Waterloo alumni Stephanie Mancini (BA ’82) and Joseph Mancini (BA ’81, MA ’82) in the spring of 1982, The Working Centre serves as an ongoing response to unemployment and poverty within the community.
Congratulations to all of the Waterloo students who graduate this week!
As we prepared for convocation, we turned to social media to ask for five words of wisdom for our newest alumni — no more, no less.
Waterloo grads submitted some terrific advice. Thanks to everyone who shared their life hacks for a chance to win a Waterloo prize pack. Here are the five recipients.
We often hear from entrepreneurial alumni who cite their communities and networks as an important component of their journey, whether that community was found in the Velocity program or elsewhere. Below, you’ll find four great examples of entrepreneurs who benefitted from Waterloo’s entrepreneurial community and Velocity program, and see how they give back through the Startup Pledge.
While fall is undoubtedly a bustling time on the University of Waterloo campus, for many Warriors who have reached the convocation milestone, it is also a time to reflect and celebrate the proud ending to a significant chapter in one's life.
In June of 1971, after finishing his bachelor’s degree in pure math, Joseph Liu (MMath ’72, PhD ’76) left Hong Kong to study computer science at Waterloo. He had never been to Canada or flown in a plane. And he had never seen or used a computer.
“I guess I was young and fearless,” he says. “I didn’t book much of anything in advance. I just arrived at the Toronto airport and told a car service I was going to the Computer Science Department at the University of Waterloo.”
“I was born in the Caribbean and come from a very diverse ethnic background,” says Indra. “As a child I was fortunate to travel quite a bit, so I have always enjoyed learning about other cultures. The International Development program allowed me to take what I’m passionate about and apply it to create positive change in places where social, economic and environmental challenges threaten the very existence of the people who live there.”
If you’ve been following social media during election season, you might despair at people’s ability to discuss the issues without resorting to insults or outright hostility. While civil communication is necessary for democracy, is the discourse actually changing anyone’s mind?
Rather than thinking about communication as the transmission of information from one person to another, professor Robert Danisch says we need to think of communication as a practical art of producing effects on others.