Guidance Counsellor Day
2022 Guidance Counsellor Day – November 23, 2022
2022 Guidance Counsellor Day will be held in-person at Brandon University. If you can’t attend in-person but want to join us, we do have a virtual option via zoom.
2022 Agenda
8:45 Room 233 Health Studies Building (Grab a refreshment in Room 237 next door if you wish before we begin at 9:00 am)
9:00 Welcome – Dr. David Docherty, President
Admissions and Scholarships
9:05 Leanne Barcellona, Director, Recruitment/Retention & Kathleen Richards, Student Success Officer
- Guidance Counsellor Tips – Website, Visit Us
- Application/Admission process and deadlines
- Dual Credit process and deadlines
9:20 Carolyn Vodon, Scholarship Assistant
- Awards (Automatic Consideration, Applied For, Board of Governors)
- Deadlines
Selected Program Overviews
9:35 Health Studies – Tracey Collyer\Carrie McCallum, Student Advisors (Nursing\Psychiatric Nursing)
9:50 BPES – Schad Richea, Chair, Physical Education
10:05 Francophone Studies – Dr. Eftihia Mihelakis, Chair, Francophone Studies and Languages
10:20 Bio Break (Refill your coffee in 237; washrooms are just south of our meeting room on the same (east) side)
10:35 Math and Computer Science – Dr. Rory Lucyshyn-Wright and Dr. Rashed Nekvi
Transition
10:50 Academic Advisors
11:05 Student Accessibility Services – academic accommodations, when to start the process, required documentation
Student Opportunities at BU
11:20 Student Exchange – David Rowland, Director of International Activities
11:35 Undergraduate Research – Dr. Bernadette Ardelli, Dean of Science
11:50 Question & Answer
12:00 Lunch – Eat & Greet
Dine with Recruitment and most of our presenters as well as other staff (Education, Music, IPC, Dean of Students) – feel free to ask any questions during this time.
12:45 Tours (Optional):
Campus Tour OR Residence Tour OR Indigenous Peoples’ Centre (IPC) drop-in*
*The IPC will be open for drop-in until 2:30 pm, so if you want to go on the campus tour or residence tour first and then drop by the IPC afterwards, please do so.