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The School of Contemporary Teaching & Learning (SCTL) recently launched a new faculty development program for part-time/partial-load faculty known as the Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP). The Teaching Effectiveness Program is designed to support emerging educators discover their teaching practice by exploring the fundamentals of teaching.

SLC Employee Awards recognize and honour SLC’s outstanding faculty, administrators, support staff, and student employees. The deadline to nominate someone who has made a difference at the College for a 2023 SLC Employee Award is Friday, April 7 by end of day. Recipients of the 2023 SLC Employee Awards will be announced at the Learning Connections Conference on May 17. 

The symposium on June 7, 2023, will be discussing how the nursing profession is moving forward in a post COVID health care system. Diving into how nurses, faculty and students are overcoming challenges using innovative strategies looking at building resilience and self-care, and how to promote diverse and strong workforce that can respond more effectively to patients 

When Sean Ozeer, who hails from Mauritius, chose SLC to continue his studies in the Digital Marketing Communications Graduate Certificate program, he’d never heard of Kingston, let alone St. Lawrence College. The Island of Mauritius is among the new countries where SLC Recruiters have launched an awareness campaign to attract and recruit students to study at SLC.

Jessica Hogan, a third-year Bachelor of Science - Nursing (Honours) student at the college’s Brockville campus, is part of a research team looking at the factors that could help nursing students choose gerontology as their specialization after graduation.  She presented findings of their research, “Nurturing Nursing Students in Long-Term Care: A Mixed Methods Study”, at the 2023 Kingston Nursing Research Conference on March 9.

Imagine using dry, room temperature air in your dryer instead of energy consuming and expensive heat. That concept and technology was the subject of an applied research project between SLC, industry partner SunBrine, with funding from Mitacs, and QSBRI, a Kingston-based clean technology company.