Past Announcements
Important Message for the StFX and Antigonish Community
- NS Health will be holding an Upper Respiratory Mobile Clinic in Antigonish this Wednesday March 12th.
- The clinic will run from 5-8pm with phone lines opening at 2pm the day of the clinic. Phone number for booking is 902-863-2830 Ext 4249.
- Note: This is not a drop-in clinic.
- Location is the Diabetes Centre on the 2nd Floor Antigonish Health & Wellness Centre at St. Martha’s.
Many people in the community are experiencing influenza and other upper respiratory illnesses and our local emergency department is overwhelmed, with long wait times. If you are experiencing upper respiratory symptoms and need to see a doctor, please take advantage of this mobile clinic on Wednesday evening.
At StFX, we believe that students have the right to make informed decisions about their alcohol consumption.
The Substance Use and Health in Emerging Adulthood (SHEA) Lab in partnership with the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is piloting a new alcohol education campaign called "Your Drink. Your Call."
Join us on Tuesday March 11th from 11am - 2pm in the Mulroney lower bowl for the "Your Drink. Your Call" launch event. We will be sampling non-alcoholic beverages, answering questions about Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health and promoting a culture of knowledge and choice when thinking about alcohol.
What you choose to drink and when you choose to drink is Your Call. Join us on March 11th!
Your Drink. Your Call.
Resources:
knowalcohol.ca
https://www.ccsa.ca/canadas-guidance-alcohol-and-health
Save the Date for our Annual Red Dress Learning Lodge!
DATE: March 5th, 2025
TIME: 6:00-9:00 PM
LOCATION: Schwartz Auditorium
Everyone Welcome!
Speakers to be announced shortly along with events for the week!
We have been advised that there is a watermain break in front of 118 St.Ninians St. and the Town of Antigonish Public Works Department will be performing repairs today. They will be restricting vehicular traffic to St. Ninians St. from Martha Dr., Cathedral Way, and Notre Dame during these repairs.
Facilities Management regrets any inconvenience this may be causing.
The X-Women will meet Cape Breton in the AUS quarterfinal game Friday at 1:00 pm, while the X-Men will play the winner of MUN-UNB in the semifinals Saturday at 3:00 pm.
The 2025 Bell AUS Basketball Championships will be hosted by the AUS conference at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S., Feb. 28 to March 2. Each doubleheader will feature one women's game and one men's game.
The championship schedule is as follows:
Friday, February 28th
- Women's Quarterfinal #1: Cape Breton (5th) vs. STFX (4th), 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 1st
- Women's Semifinal #1: Winner of QF1 vs. Saint Mary's (1st), 1 p.m.
- Men's Semifinal #1: Winner of QF1 vs. STFX (1st), 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 2nd
- Women's Championship Game: Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2, 1 p.m.
- Men's Championship Game: Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2, 4 p.m.
All games of the championship will be streamed live on AUStv.
For more information on the 2025 Bell AUS Basketball Championships, visit the event website at: www.AUSHoops.ca. Single session tickets will become available through Ticketmaster Monday at 11 a.m. here.
The 2025 INDOCHINO U SPORTS Women's and Men's Final 8 Basketball Championships are being hosted together March 13-16 in Vancouver, B.C.
The Atlantic conference is guaranteed only one berth in each championship, which will be awarded to the AUS champions.
Get ready STFX — X-Women Hockey is back on home ice!
The X-Women are hosting games one and two of the AUS Semifinal Series against St. Thomas at the Keating Centre Friday & Saturday night! Time to make some noise for the blue & white when the puck drops at 7:00pm!
All STFX students are eligible for a FREE ticket at the box office on game day! Secure your seat & we’ll see you at the arena — GO X GO!
Please join us as we celebrate African Heritage Month!
This year's provincial theme, Legacy in Action: Celebrating Black Brilliance, highlights the enduring legacy of excellence, resilience and innovation demonstrated by people of African descent throughout the centuries in our province. In recognition and in celebration of our rich history, everyone is encouraged to attend the following events:
Date | Time | Location | Event |
January 30 | 10:00am | Chisholm Park | Town Flag Raising |
February 4 | 11:00am | Joyce Family Atrium (MULH) | StFX AHM Launch Celebration |
February 6 | 7-9pm | Bloomfield Hub | African Drumming |
February 8 | 6&8pm | Coach K Court | AHM Basketball Games |
February 11 | 10am-2pm | Ancestry Tracing Event | Town Library |
February 13 | 4:30-7:30pm | AHM Sodexo Dinner | Morrison Hall |
February 26 | 8-9pm | Black X-cellence Panel | Zoom |
February 28 | 6-9:30 | AHM Black Student Gala | TBD |
African Heritage Month Calendar African Heritage Month Events
UPDATE as of 12:00 PM: Power has been restored to all campus buildings. Classes will resume as planned.
Please be advised that an unexpected power outage has occurred affecting some buildings on campus. The situation is being investigated. A list of the affected buildings is below for your reference.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT CLASSES IN UNAFFECTED BUILDINGS WILL CONTINUE AS PER SCHEDULE.
Operations, including classes in affected buildings are cancelled, resuming operations at 12:00 PM (noon) today, Friday February 28.
BUILDINGS WITH NO POWER AFFECTING CLASSES:
- Annex
- J Bruce Brown
- Keating Centre
- Nicholson Tower
- Saputo Centre
The Alumni Aquatic Centre has resumed operations for swimming lessons and the PHAST practice this evening. There will be no open swims tonight, 28 February 2025. Regular hours will resume tomorrow, 1 March 2025.
In celebration of African Heritage Month, we welcome StFX students, faculty, and staff to join us virtually for the third annual: Black X-cellence Panel.
DATE: Wednesday, February 26th 2025
TIME: 8pm Atlantic
LOCATION: Virtual
This online panel will include an inspiring conversation between five Black StFX alumni from across the decades on their experiences at StFX and their careers. Panelists include:
- Buttons Ashe-Henry (BA '94, BEd '95) - Elementary School Teacher in the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board; MVP of the 1994 X-Women Basketball Team.
- Peter Thurton (BA '84)– recently retired Business Law attorney, who has represented large corporate clients such as Manulife Financial, CIBC, Royal Bank Insurance, & Enbridge; Lecturer on corporate ethics and governance at the Rome Business School, Italy.
- E.L. Adams II (BA '03) - Child Psychologist with his own practice and therapy groups; presentations on Mental Health, Mood, and Music; X-Men Basketball team 2x National Champion.
- Sharonne King (BBA '22 ) - StFX’s International Recruitment Officer; winner of the Trudy Eagan Women in Business Award and the McKenna Centre's Racial Justice Leadership Award.
- This conversation will be hosted by StFX alumnus Kwame Osei '10, '12, who is a motivational speaker, author, former X-men and CFL player and finalist on the Amazing Race Canada. Kwame is the co-founder of the LIFT Bursary, established to support Black student leaders at StFX.
This will be a powerful conversation - we hope you can join us!
*Exciting News! StFX is delighted to announce that these Black X-cellence conversations have inspired the establishment of the first-ever Black StFX Alumni Chapter. If you identify as a Black alumnus, please fill out this survey to share your feedback on the Chapter’s focus and activities.
This event is brought to you by: StFX Alumni Office, StFX Alumni Association, StFX Black Student Advising Office, StFX Office of the Associate Vice President, Research, & Graduate Studies, and the LIFT Bursary for Black Student Leaders
The Angus L. Macdonald Library is seeking qualified students to join our team for the 2025-26 academic semester, as well as 1 student to work with us full-time (35 hours) from April 28th, 2025 to August 29th, 2025. We offer:
- Flexible scheduling
- Shift switching
- Competitive wages
- Hands-on training
- Teach you how to use the library to help others and yourself
- Plus much more...
Job Description & Position Details:
Deadline to apply is 4:30pm on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025.
AMANDA COCKSHUTT (she/her)
ACADEMIC VICE-PRESIDENT & PROVOST
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia · Canada
I acknowledge that StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
The Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership is pleased to announce that the Hon. Maryam Monsef will deliver the 2025 McKenna Scholar in Residence Lecture on February 25, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in McKenna Hall. In this Lecture, Maryam Monsef speaks to the “how”, as well as to the challenges and opportunities that exist in building programs and policies that advance greater belonging, while enhancing the bottom line and social impact of organizations.
To the campus community,
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Erin Morton as the next Associate Vice-President, Research, Graduate, and Professional Studies (AVPRGPS). Dr. Morton is a distinguished scholar and experienced academic leader with a strong track record in research, graduate education, and strategic academic initiatives.
Currently serving as Dean of Arts at StFX, Dr. Morton has played a pivotal role in shaping the university’s academic landscape, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening research capacity within the institution. With an extensive background in research leadership, she has been actively involved in advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education. A historian of art and culture by training, her research interests span visual and material culture studies, critical cultural theory, and Atlantic Canadian studies, and she has contributed significantly to academic discourse through her three published books with McGill-Queen’s University Press, editorial leadership at Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, and mentorship of nearly 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University.
As AVPRGPS, Dr. Morton will oversee research services, graduate programs, and professional studies at StFX, leading efforts to expand research capacity, enhance graduate education, and foster external partnerships. She will work closely with faculty, students, and external stakeholders to position StFX as a national leader in research and professional studies, bringing deep institutional knowledge and a forward-thinking approach to research administration and graduate education.
Dr. Morton’s deep knowledge of research administration and graduate education, combined with her commitment to fostering a collaborative research environment, make her an outstanding choice for this role. Her vision and leadership will be instrumental in advancing StFX’s strategic priorities in research excellence, innovation, and graduate studies.
On behalf of the university community, I would like to extend thanks to the search committee for their time spent working with KBRS Executive Search on this critical hire for the university.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Erin Morton on her new role as Associate Vice-President, Research, Graduate, and Professional Studies. She will begin her new role starting on July 1, 2025.
Amanda
AMANDA COCKSHUTT (she/her)
ACADEMIC VICE-PRESIDENT & PROVOST
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia · Canada
I acknowledge that StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
With the impending weather, the Angus L. Macdonald Library will be closing at 5:30pm today, Thursday, February 13th, 2025, along with the rest of campus. We regret any inconvenience. Stay safe tonight!
Thursday January 30th, 2025
6:30p.m.
120 Dennis Hall
Coady West, St. Francis Xavier
Free Event
Everyone is welcome
Join author Andrea Currie, Dr. Jane McMillan, special guests and members of the Indigenous Students’ Society in conversation with the wisdom shared in Finding Otipemisiwak.
Books available for purchase and signing $20.00.
ABOUT THE BOOK: A Sixties Scoop survivor’s journey back to her Nation and the truth of who she is
“Weaving myriad forms—poetry, family history, personal
essay, cultural criticism—Andrea Currie tells her story with mercy and force, revealing the warp and weft of the racist system that codified the robbery of Indigenous children through the Sixties Scoop and the devastating consequences for those children, their families, and their communities.…Finding Otipemisiwak is a necessary, searing, and luminous gift of a book.” —Rebecca Silver Slayter, author of The Second History
ANDREA CURRIE is a writer, healer, and activist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist working in Indigenous mental health and has accompanied the We’koqma’q Residential School Survivors on their healing journey for the past twenty years.
Many thanks to the Ulnooweg Foundation & the Deveau Centre for Indigenous Governance and Social Justice and the Indigenous Students’ Society @ X.
Campus cleanup crews continue to work diligently to clear snow, making campus accessible and safe to reopen. As of this 8:30 AM this morning, while much progress has been made, the wind continues to blow snow back onto pathways, walkways and roads. There is still more snow removal that must occur before the university can safely resume full operations.
StFX University will remain closed, reopening at 2:30 PM, Thursday, January 30, for cleanup crews to continue their work. Essential services will remain open.
Online classes will continue as per schedule unless notified otherwise by the professor.
Faculty, Staff and Students:
Here are some reminders about staying safe on our campus during the winter months.
Snow Clearing Safety
For your own safety and that of our snow-clearing employees, please be careful when walking near plows, snowblowers or other equipment being used to keep walkways, roads and parking lots clear. Give the equipment the right-of-way, unless the operator makes eye contact and signals you to pass. In winter conditions, it is difficult for the equipment operator to see their entire surroundings and your assistance is needed to help keep everyone safe.
Trucks and Walkways
If you park a truck on campus, please do not back-in so far over walkways that the truck is impeding the clearing of snow. See the attached photo for an example of this type of parking to be avoided.
Safe Winter Walking
Please review our Safe Winter Walking Alert. Our seasonal reminder about the importance of walking safely on campus during winter conditions.
Len and Cub exhibition opening reception & curator's talk
Thursday Jan. 9, 7 pm
Please consider yourselves warmly invited to the opening reception for the exhibition Len and Cub, on at the StFX Art Gallery until Feb. 1, 2025.
Leonard "Len" Keith (1891-1950) and Joseph "Cub" Coates (1899-1965) were two young men living in the rural village of Havelock, New Brunswick, who formed a relationship during the early 20th century. While keeping their attraction for each other hidden, they privately captured their relationship via photographs, producing one of the oldest known surviving photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes. These remarkable archival images, held at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, are as important socially and historically as they are unique in the photographic canon of eastern Canada.
Len and Cub is curated by Meredith J. Batt and Dusty Green and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Queer Heritage Initiative of New Brunswick.
At 7 pm, opening remarks will be delivered, and curator Meredith J. Batt will give a talk via Zoom, projected in the gallery. Refreshments will be provided.
Admission is free for all.
HOURS
Jan. 9 - Feb. 1, 2025
Wed. 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Thrs. 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Fri. 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Sat. 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Extended hours
Thurs. Jan. 9, 2:30 - 9 pm
Call For Applications
The Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries is sending out a call for applications for the AtlanticOER Development Grants. Funding is provided by the four Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island).
What are Development Grants?
AtlanticOER Development Grants are intended to provide financial support to instructors in the Atlantic Region with the process of creating and adapting new Open Educational Resources. Our goal is to support instructors to increase the availability of quality, free, openly licensed resources to support student learning.
There are three different tiers of funding that you can apply for, depending on the scope of the project. The tiers are as follows:
Tier 1: Creating an Open Textbook (up to $7,000)
This funding is intended for the development of a new open textbook. The topic should not be covered in an already existing open textbook. This tier is meant for creation projects at a larger scale.
Tier 2: Adaptation of an Existing Open Textbook (up to $4,000)
This funding is intended for substantive adaptation projects. Sometimes, it can be possible to find an open textbook that covers foundational knowledge, but which needs to be adjusted. For example, the textbook might need adjustments to ensure it adheres to local educational standards, adjustments might be made to make it relevant to the local context (eg, an American business textbook may need adjustments to make it suitable for a Canadian business context), or new examples and interactive elements may be added to a book.
Tier 3: Creation of Ancillary Materials (up to $1,000)
This funding is intended for smaller creation projects. Ancillary materials can be defined as course materials that are meant to supplement and support a textbook. Examples of ancillary materials include: slide decks, interactive tutorials, and quiz and test banks. Often, ancillary materials can enhance student learning.
Who Can Apply?
Applications are open to individuals who are affiliated with a CAAL-CBPA member institution. In the case where an application is being submitted by a team, at least one team member must be affiliated with the member institution. The proposed OER must be intended for a credit bearing course at the member institution and at least one applicant must be affiliated with the course.
What Can Funding be Used For?
Funding can be used for the following activities:
Support: funding can be used to financially support the hiring of another individual, such as an undergraduate research assistant, to assist with the project. Activities may include support uploading content into a Pressbook, technical expertise, support with designing any graphics that may be required.
Events: funding can be used to finance events, such as sprints, that are used to generate the content for an OER. The funding can also be used to finance resources for the events such as facilities and refreshments.
Funding cannot be used to pay the instructor for their work on the project nor can it be used to fund any administrative overhead. As part of the application, you will be asked to outline your expenses and a rationale for each expense.
Application Requirements
A description of the proposed OER and the gaps that exist in already-existing openly licensed materials on the same subject.
Detailed assessment of the costs, including an itemized list of expenses along with a description of each expense.
A detailed timeline for the project, including milestones.
An assessment of the potential impact of the project on student experience and learning. Impact should include projected student savings.
A plan for maintaining the currency and relevancy after the end of the grant period.
Completion of required forms.
Applications can be submitted in either English or French. Applications submitted in French will be translated into English by the selection committee for the adjudication process.
Application Timeline
Applications are open starting on January 6th 2025. The application period will close on February 14th 2025. Review of the applications will start immediately thereafter. Successful applicants will be notified mid-March. At this time, successful applicants will be told which tier of funding they have qualified for and will be given a detailed document that outlines the expectations of grant recipients. Funds will be disbursed to the lead applicant’s institutional grant office or equivalent as a full lump sum in April.
