Learning Through Experience
Sharing our successes with experiential learning at UNB
Engaged faculty, students support community health with funding help from CEWIL Canada, iHUB funding
Office of Experiential Education
Posted: Aug 30, 2023
Category: Student Champions , Community Partners , Faculty Champions
For years, UNB Faculty of Nursing students and their instructors have been established meaningful partnerships and contributed to community health initiatives in New Brunswick. Recent challenges, combined with some timely funding through CEWIL Canada, created new opportunities for nursing students to make a difference. CEWIL iHUB funding helped Nursing students do more through the experiential...
Read the full postUNB Plus bridges the gaps between the classroom and the workplace through fun, engaging learning modules
Office of Experiential Education
Posted: Apr 25, 2023
Category: Current Opportunities
The Office of Experiential Education (OEE) has created a free online platform for students to prepare for experiential learning, work, and more. The UNB Plus modules are accessible through SharePoint, the same intranet resource students already use to access their student information and Microsoft web applications. Find our site: www.unb.ca/unbplus. While these resources are...
Read the full postEngagedUNB applications open for students
Sandy MacKay and Lee Whelan
Posted: Apr 20, 2022
Category: ExperienceUNB
Get meaningful, paid work experience in your community. EngagedUNB matches you with a community partner for an internship up to 16 weeks long. Set goals for your internship, develop professional skills, network, and reflect on what you learn.ELIGIBLE STUDENTS ARE: From any UNB faculty, study year or campus Returning to UNB in Fall 2022 Equity deserving Able to demonstrate...
Read the full postIndigenous students participate in an experiential education project at UNBSJ
Emily Wheaton and Lee Whelan
Posted: Apr 20, 2022
Category: Student Champions
Hayden Hovey’s goal is to “improve social cohesion” among students and to bring better support to Indigenous students at UNB. The project is part of SOCS 4501: Campus as a Living Lab with Dr. Sarah King and comes after UNB launched the Indigenous self-identification form this week. Around two and a half per cent of the UNBSJ population openly identifies as Indigenous...
Read the full postNew opportunities for students: Catalyst Program
Lee Whelan
Posted: Apr 1, 2022
Category: ExperienceUNB
The Office of Experiential Education has new opportunities for all UNB students to engage in Work Integrated Learning opportunities. Please share these paid internship opportunities with students. The Catalyst Program merges a specially created Business Consulting Course and a paid internship, open to students from both UNB campuses and all faculties (3rd & 4th year and Graduate...
Read the full postStudent creates videos series as part of community-based internship program
Andie Mollins and Lee Whelan
Posted: Mar 30, 2022
Category: Student Champions
This project was supported by the Arts Internship, a community-engaged experiential learning program create by UNB’s Faculty or Arts. Two internship courses, ARTS 3000 (unpaid) and ARTS 4000 (paid) provide arts students with opportunities to develop practical skills and while gaining credit hours they can put towards completing their degree. Andie Mollins, a 3rd year BA student double...
Read the full postUNBSJ students: complete a suvey on experiential education for a chance to win prizes
Ellena Sutton
Posted: Mar 25, 2022
Category: ExperienceUNB
Hello UNBSJ students, experiential education includes a variety of approaches where educators intentionally engage with learners using direct or authentic and real experiences. The Office of Experiential Education has created this survey to learn how to better suit experiential learning to the needs of our community here at UNBSJ. Click the link below to fill out the...
Read the full postJoys of the Journey- Nursing Students on Campobello Island
Sandy MacKay
Posted: Mar 25, 2022
Category: Student Champions
Campobello Island is one of the most remote corners of Canada. This island in the Bay of Fundy is accessible -when the seas are calm- by one ferry to Deer Island and then another ferry from Deer Island to Campobello. Otherwise, access to the island is by bridge from Maine. Travelers from mainland NB must enter the USA, travel through rural Maine and re-enter Canada, crossing the bridge back...
Read the full postCatalyst
Lee Whelan
Posted: Mar 3, 2022
Category: ExperienceUNB
Catalyst is a flagship offering in UNB’s work-integrated learning opportunity catalogue that provides students with consulting-style WIL, tackling pressing challenges for New Brunswick businesses. In 2022, our theme is digital transformation, responding to key labour market and economic development challenges for the Province of New Brunswick. For a PDF of the poster, click here.
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Lee Whelan
Posted: Mar 3, 2022
Category: ExperienceUNB
Compass is a flagship community-engaged learning opportunity offered through UNB’s Office of Experiential Education. The Compass program at UNB supports economic, social, and civic development in rural communities throughout New Brunswick. Interdisciplinary teams of students will work with rural communities and regions to create innovative solutions to pressing challenges in those...
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