ACLC - Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture - at UPEI

Hello folks,
Are you looking for a full-time job in the summer?
UPEI GeoREACH Lab is hiring Student Assistants for the project "Animals and the Circular Economy."
The work is 37.5 hours per week in person, but the schedule gets increasingly flexible over the summer (eg. days or a week off if needed, the ability to bank hours, etc). Please contact Dr. Joshua MacFadyen ([email protected]) if you have any questions.
https://www.upei.ca/hr/competition/59s22

We would like to congratulate ACLC student Cristian Ho for winning last month's ACLC logo contest. The logo consists of the elements of the short form "ACLC," and the mint green color represents tranquility to many people.

We'd like to thank everyone who submitted their artwork and our judges for taking the time out of their busy schedules to decide on a winner.

Stay tuned for more contests like these in the fall. Till then, have a great summer, everyone! ☀️

Some highlights of Leslie's session last Friday!

ACLC would like to thank everyone who attended.

𝐈𝐧-𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭❗❗❗

We're excited to announce that ACLC’s new Practitioner in Residence Leslie MacLean will be joining us in-person this Friday, 11 March. She'll be talking to students about her dynamic career as a federal public servant and her thoughts on leadership and work in a post-pandemic time.

Join ACLC 3060 “Putting Arts to Work” on Friday morning (9:30-10:45am) for a session open to all ACLC students.

How did a rural English Literature student from PEI achieve so much in some of the most critical leadership spaces in the nation's capital? From her family homestead in West Prince PEI to central positions of power in Ottawa and around the world, Leslie will tell her story of leadership, challenge, and opportunity.

Then, sign up for a “Coffee/Tea with Leslie” on Friday afternoon (between 1:30-4pm), if you would like to chat with Leslie at the Fox & Crow, either 1-on-1 or with a friend. We will send you a follow-up poll so you can choose a time and indicate if you’ll be bringing along another student.

Sign up for either or both sessions using the link below! 👇

https://forms.gle/XQ95KdesXKmWUtRj9

ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢📢

Our family is growing!

ACLC is proud to introduce our new practitioner in residence - 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧

Ms. Leslie MacLean is a recently retired Deputy Minister who started as an arts undergraduate at UPEI (BA in English) and then went on to receive her master's in English from the University of Toronto.

She retired in 2021 after 35+ years of public service to Canadians across a broad range of policy and program delivery, operations, communications and government agency roles.

So, what does this mean for ACLC students?

Well, if you've ever thought about working for the government or getting a job in public policy, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Leslie will be working directly with our upper-level ACLC students who would like to improve their resumes and skills with an aim to work in government or other leadership roles.

Don't forget to sign up to meet her this Friday (11 March) using the link in our bio.

And let’s all give Leslie a warm ACLC welcome!

Dudley Laws was a civil rights activist born in Jamaica and migrated to Canada in 1965. As a civil rights activist, he called out a lot of what was wrong with the Canadian justice system at the time, specifically the racial biases towards black people.

In 1988, after the fatal shooting of Lester Donaldson by Toronto police, he co-founded the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) along with Charles Roach, Sherona Hall, and Lennox Farrell. The BADC was an organization calling for an end to “police investigating police” in suspected cases of police wrongdoing.

As an immigration consultant in the 1980s and 1990s, Laws advocated for immigrants from the Caribbean and refugees. He also helped establish the Black Youth Community Action Project and supported changes to benefit Black inmates in the prison system.

Dudley Laws was called the ‘Voice of the Voiceless, ‘and his impact on Canadian history will never be forgotten.



📸 National Post

"𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑝."

Oprah Winfrey is a former news anchor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and media personality who's had massive success in her career and received many accolades for her charitable endeavors.

After working as a news anchor for CBS at the tender age of 19, she moved to Chicago to host the AM Chicago show, which later became the Oprah Winfrey Show. In its first year, the show received three Daytime Emmy Awards in Outstanding Host, Outstanding Talk/Service Program, and Outstanding Direction.

When Forbes published its list of America's billionaires for 2003, it disclosed that Oprah Winfrey was the first African American woman to become a billionaire.

In 2007, she opened a $40 million school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa. She became an outspoken crusader against child abuse and received many honors and awards from civic, philanthropic, and entertainment organizations.

Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by President Barack Obama in recognition of her philanthropic efforts.

She won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 2018, where she gave an impassioned speech—in which she called for racial and gender equality—was widely seen as one of the ceremony's most memorable moments.

In 2007, several media outlets regarded her as the most powerful woman in the world.

🚨🚨 Calling all Graphic Designers and Digital Artists!!! 🚨🚨

It's about time ACLC gets a new look and we want you to be a part of it!

All you have to do is design a logo for ACLC's social media and you could win a UPEI swag bag and cool merch with your logo on it.

Contest rules:
🔴Only one submission per student.
🔴Original artwork by the student.
🔴Artwork must be in JPG/PNG format.
🔴Contest ends on the 24th.

Send us your artistic masterpiece to 𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗰𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺@𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗶.𝗰𝗮 with the subject line: ACLC Logo Contest. The email should include your full name, major, year of study and Instagram and/or Facebook handle.

DM us if you have any questions or inquiries.






*This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

𝘔𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺, "𝘒𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘢, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵."

And indeed, she did...

From becoming the first Black American to serve as California's Attorney General to being appointed as the first female Vice President of the United States, Here are 3 things about Kamala Harris you probably didn't know about:

➊ She visited India as a child and was heavily influenced by her grandfather, a high-ranking government official who fought for Indian independence, and grandmother, an activist who traveled the countryside teaching impoverished women about birth control.

➋ One of her signature accomplishments as attorney general was creating Open Justice, an online platform to make criminal justice data available to the public. The database helped improve police accountability by collecting information on the number of deaths and injuries of those in police custody.

➌ She's an enthusiastic cook who bookmarks recipes from the New York Times cooking section and has tried almost all the recipes from Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food. Her go-to dinner entree is a simple roast chicken. Simple, wouldn't you say?

Next week, we will be featuring another revolutionary leader whose work is shaping history today. Who do you think it is? Let us know in the comments below.

🌈Employment opportunities for our 2022 summer season!

Please forward a resume to [email protected] if you would like to join “The Dunes” team!

✨Deadline to apply is Friday March 4th, 2022✨