UPEISU Votes in Favour of 2018-19 UPEI Operating Budget The University of Prince Edward Island Student Union has voted in favour of the UPEI 2018-19 Operating Budget at the Board of Governors meeting of May 17, 2018. This budget has seen a hike in tuition and other student fees of 2% for...
The UPEI Student Union has partnered with Student Organizations from all across Canada to release a joint publication on campus sexual violence, entitled Shared Perspectives: A Joint Publication on Campus Sexual Violence Prevention and Response. The 2017-2018 UPEISU Vice President Academic and External Taya Nabuurs contributed to this publication, in which...
From February 6 - February 8, 2018, the UPEI Student Union is coordinating a letter-writing campaign advocating for better mental health resources on campus. We want to flood the offices of our provincial MLAs with letters from students explaining why these resources are important and why they are needed on...
The following results are not official until the UPEISU council approves them on January 28, 2018. Chelsea Perry: 432 Justin Clory: 377 Abstentions: 59 Total votes: 868...
At the December 3, 2017 University of Prince Edward Island Student Union (UPEISU) council meeting, council voted to move forward with renovations to the UPEISU campus pub, The Wave. Since 2002, The Wave has occupied a large restaurant-style space in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre. The renovations, which were...
It has come to the attention of the UPEI Student Union that a person or group has been putting up posters in public spaces around Charlottetown, including in very close proximity to the UPEI campus. These posters utilize racist tones, and include statements such as “Stop the ethnocide of ‘old...
On Sunday, January 7, 2018, Hammad Ahmed announced his resignation from the position of President and CEO of the UPEI Student Union. A scanned copy of his resignation letter is provided below. The UPEI Student Union would like to thank Mr. Ahmed for his contribution to the organization and to the...
4 December 2017 EDIT (5 December 2017): the Surveyor Online has published a corrective statement from the UPEISU linked to the original article. It has come to the attention of the University of Prince Edward Island Student Union (UPEISU) that on October 17, 2017, the Surveyor Online published an article regarding the...
The UPEISU thanks the Cadre for this piece. Please see the original story on the Cadre's website. Vice President Academic and External Taya Nabuurs and Policy and Research Coordinator Colin Trewin presented the UPEISU’s policy priorities to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island’s Standing Committee on Education and Economic Development on October...