Month: December 2024

What is Campus Kodos?

Campus Kudos celebrates and acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of our talented and hard-working faculty, staff and students.

President Kevin Hall will recognize the people receiving Campus Kudos at informal celebration events throughout the academic year.

Kudos are shared with our campus community so we can all learn more about the great things happening at UVic and the people that make up this institution.

This year Uvic Childcare was nominated for Campus Kodos, the nomination was done by one our parents from Cedar Place!

thank you to everyone who made all of our commitments possible last year.

Please see below:

https://www.uvic.ca/faculty-staff/pay-benefits/recognition-and-service/campus-kudos/index.php

Kim Ainsworth, Sadaf Soheilsayar, and Michelle Mason – Child Care Services Administrative Team

• Successfully oversaw the opening of the new Queenswood Child Care centre, including staff hiring, and outfitting two new centres.
• Their work ensures affordable, high-quality childcare and they are committed to fostering a strong sense of community and belonging.

“Collective thinking is not “thinking the same” as others. Rather, when we engage in collective thinking, we bring our own ideas into conversation with the ideas of others (e.g. artists, poets, philosophers, educationalists and so on) whose perspectives and experiences might be wildly different than our own. Even if people come from similar backgrounds, we may approach problems or tensions from different angles. This is why collective thinking-or thinking with others-can be a powerful way to question our habits, consider alternatives and create new ways of thinking, doing, and being together.” (Smith, Mann, Jeong, Monpetit, Pacini-Ketchabaw, 2024, p. 1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference:

Smith, T., Hann, C., Jeong, M., Montpetit, M., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2024). Catalogue of Wanderings: Wandering With/In Conversations with Young Children, (Volume 2). ECPN.