Learning Council Roles
Learning Council may
- Consider and determine the courses or programs to be offered
- Set criteria concerning qualifications for admission, examinations, and evaluations of student performance
- Requirements for graduation
- Determine the degrees, honorary degrees, certificates and diplomas to be granted by University College, and the persons to whom they are to be granted.
- Evaluate existing courses or programs.
- Establish faculty councils and other bodies
- Exercise internal disciplinary jurisdiction over the academic conduct of students, including the power to expel or suspend for cause.
- Make rules and establish procedures for appeals by students on admissions and academic matters, and to establish a final appeal tribunal for these appeals
- Determine curriculum content for courses leading to degrees, certificates, and diplomas.
Members
Chair
Vice-Chair
President & Vice Chancellor
Chancellor
Council of Elders Representative
Governing Council Representative
Connie is a long-time educator from The Pas, Manitoba. She taught high school history and geography on the adjacent Opaskwayak Cree Nation for 22 years, leaving in 2014 to focus her time on pedagogical writing. She has been involved in the creation of student learning materials and curricula at the provincial, national, and international level, and has contributed to a number of textbooks, teacher support guides, and school publications. She co-authored the grade 11 Canadian history textbook used in Manitoba schools. She was the instructional designer and co-writer of Manitoba's Treaty Education Initiative and continues to train the province's teachers and school leaders as Treaty Education Lead.
Further to teaching, teacher-training, and writing, Connie is vice-president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, is chair of the Geographical Names Board of Canada, and is a member of Elections Canada Circle of Educators.
Locally, Connie sits as a board member for the Kelsey Watershed District, the Sam Waller Museum, and The Pas Resource Centre.
Connie has written for the Globe and Mail, Canada's History, Canadian Geographic, and the Canadian Encyclopedia. She has received several awards including the 2014 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History and the 2017 Manitoba Metis Federation's Distinguished Leader in Education.
Connie holds a B.Ed, M.Ed. She lives in the Carrot Valley, west of The Pas, with her husband and two daughters.