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Staff and faculty in advising roles can now register for the 2024 Advisor Conference.

Senate has approved delisting and inactivating the Global Experience Certificate (GEC) as of August 31, 2024. 
 

The 10th annual Advisor Conference is going to be bigger and better than ever — and you could be a speaker at it.

The Student Success Office’s Peer Success Coaching program is being recognized by the Canadian Tutor Standards for providing students high quality learning support.

A helpful guide about what learning support is offered and what options might be best suited for common challenges.

In 2020, the University of Waterloo assembled the President’s Anti-racism Taskforce (PART), making a public commitment to address systemic racism across its campuses. Two of PART’s recommendations called on the Student Success Office (SSO) to evaluate existing peer mentorship programs and implement a mentorship offering for incoming students identifying as Black, Indigenous, Racialized, 2SLGBTQIAA+, and/ or those from other historically underrepresented groups.

In January 2023, Tara Kleinsteuber joined the SSO to action this work. As a student equity specialist, Tara’s role was to re-imagine what community-care focused mentorship could look like. Just five short months later, the SSO welcomed the first cohort of student participants and leaders to the new Connection Collective program.

With the support of the Student Success Office, WUSA, Graduate Student Association, all six faculties and over 1000 student leaders, the University of Waterloo welcomed more than 6000 new students to campus during Orientation. Events for international, exchange, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as parents and supporters, ran from Thursday August 31 to Saturday September 9, 2023.  

With lessons learned from last year’s return to in-person events and incorporated student feedback, an engaging roster of events was offered to the newest members of the Warrior community.