In fifteen years of Indigenous services at St. Paul’s University College, there have been various Indigenous camps offered on campus, but last week was the first Indigenous Leadership Entrepreneurship and DesignThinking (LEAD) camp ever offered here—or anywhere.
On April 9th, GreenHouse celebrated its 17th cohort of social innovators and entrepreneurs at the Social Impact Showcase. As part of this celebration, GreenHouse awarded grants from its Social Impact Fund.
Vaiva Dzemionas, BSW student, loves music. She’s been playing since she was five years old and was trained in voice as a teen. Vaiva is also a talented composer and enjoys combining her musical skills to create beautiful melodies.
We are thrilled to announce that the guest rooms at St. Paul’s are a recipient of the 2018 Booking.com Guest Review Awards.
St. Paul’s economics professor Teferi Mergo says, “I grew up in Ethiopia during a very turbulent time, surrounded by serious economic hardships and socio-political upheaval.” This experience sparked his interest in development economics, a subject he teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, jointly appointed at St Paul’s and in the Economics Department.
The St. Paul's University College community was saddened to learn of the passing of William (Bill) Klassen who served as Principal of the College from 1989-1994.
The annual Blackforest Coffeehouse has long been a musical tradition at St. Paul’s. But last year, the organizers decided to add an art gallery to the event—and were delighted to discover that not only is St. Paul’s home to many talented musicians but also to a wide variety of gifted visual artists.
Principal Richard Myers is pleased to announce that the Jackman Reading Room is now operational. The initial collection of fifty volumes has been delivered and is ready to be read!
It was supposed to increase accessibility, but it also “opened the door” to so much more.
The Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre at St. Paul’s opened in 2012, providing a welcome space for the sharing of Indigenous knowledge, culturally relevant information and support services for all members of the University of Waterloo community, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, staff, and faculty.