2018 NU News

Congratulations to local educator, Laurie Clayton, who has earned the 2018 Schulich School of Education Associate Teacher Award. Clayton has been teaching with the Near North District School Board since 2000.  This past school year, she taught grades 5/6 at Silver Birches Elementary School.

Major Brenda Tinsley who was conferred Nipissing’s highest distinction, an honorary degree, during the convocation ceremony in North Bay on June 7, 2018.

The Harris Learning Library atrium is currently featuring a mixed media installation by Nipissing Bachelor of Fine Arts alumna, Caitlyn Marion (BFA’18).  The installation was completed as part of Marion’s final assignments for her degree and was originally displayed in the WKP Kennedy Gallery in downtown North Bay.

Congratulations to Schulich School of Education alumna, Erin Hartmans (BEd’18) who was recently awarded the 2018 Dr. David Suzuki Fellowship by the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Laboratory School at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). 

Nipissing’s Bachelor of Social Work program was recently granted Pre-Accreditation Status for a four-year period by the Canadian Association for Social Work Education’s (CASWE) Commission on Accreditation (COA).