Current News

CIRPA-ACPRI extends our deepest condolences to all members of our post-secondary community who are mourning the loss of students and colleagues who were aboard Ukraine International Airlines flight 752. Nothing can replace this tragic loss, and we ask all our members to support one another during this difficult time.

The CIRPA Board of Directors is pleased to share the following election results:

• President: Stephanie McKeown, University of British Columbia (elected by acclamation)
• Vice-President: Miranda Pearson, University of Regina
• Treasurer: Carmelinda Del Conte, Mohawk College (elected by acclamation)
• Member-at- Large: Neil Chakraborty, University of Toronto
• Member-at- Large: Stephen Childs, York University
• Member-at- Large: Dawn Macdonald, Yukon College

I will take this opportunity to congratulate the incoming members of the board and offer my sincere thanks to the other candidates for running in this year’s election.

Best regards,

Cameron Tilson

Chair, Nominating Committee and Past President

CIRPA is very pleased to invite you to join York University’s Stephen Childs and Patrick Cernea on May 22, 2019 as they share the session that nabbed them the 2018 CIRPA Conference Best Presentation Award. To register for the one-hour webinar, which starts at 10 a.m. Pacific/11 a.m. Mountain/12 p.m. Central/1 p.m. Eastern/2 p.m. Atlantic/2:30 p.m. Newfoundland and Labrador, please click here and provide your name, e-mail address and the name of your institution or company. Thank you. For more information about the webinar, please see the short write-up below.

 Your institutional surveys are sending you a message, but are you able to filter out the signal from the noise? Surveys such as NSSE are large-scale undertakings by your institution, but is the information collected being put to good use? While static reports can be useful, they can sit gathering virtual dust. To get the message out, you need to provide a way to explore the data. Prepare your survey data for Tableau using R and create engaging and useful visualizations of your survey data. Level up your survey data and put it in front of decision-makers at your institution.

The Board met in Montreal where we had a chance to give the Hotel Omni a bit of a test drive in advance of the conference, and it did not disappoint! Huge shout-outs to Cameron Tilson, Neil Chakraborty, and everyone on the local arrangements and program planning committees, because they are doing an amazing job!

Despite the snow that greeted us at the airport, we had a wonderful time and are predicting that Montreal will give us a conference to remember. You’ll want to pack your walking shoes and your dancing shoes – and maybe your French-English dictionary (or preferred translation app). Plans are underway to make this a truly bilingual conference that is inclusive of francophones, anglophones, and those who’d like to reach out to our colleagues across the language barrier.

We also reviewed the CIRPA communication plan, our membership categories, our professional development activities such as webinars, and of course our interim financials. Watch for more information coming soon about all those topics.
Meanwhile, if you’re thinking about submitting a proposal to present in Montreal, please reach out to Neil. He’ll be happy to help if you have questions or are unsure how your idea can best fit with this year’s “circus” theme. Presentations in French are particularly welcomed.

See you in Montreal!