Music Graduate Student Resources at the University of Alberta

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Short and memorable link for this page:
https://bit.ly/mgsr-ua (music grad student resources - uofa)

This is a temporary page, providing information to supplement the official Music Department Graduate Student Resources page
Please use it until the official page [1] can be properly updated. 

Note: the Fine Arts Building is different from the Old Arts Building.  Music has facilities in both.  Please see this Google map for details.


Grad student orientation

Graduate Student Orientation session for 2021-22

Our meeting took place Monday, August 30, 10 am. Please find all relevant materials below.

Orientation Agenda (contains lots of useful links!)

Program Overview (Google slide presentation; more links)




Note: you won't get access to Google Drive and other documents unless you're logged into Google using your UofA CCID! So if you're not getting in, please check that first.

Additional resources

Urgent Situations? Here's a summary of Graduate student support for a range of issues (personal, financial, academic...)

FGSR's support links and numbers

Advising

Your primary sources for advising are:

  1. your (interim) supervisor and
  2. the Graduate Advisor for Music.

The GSA and FGSR offer virtual advising; graduate students can chat with a live agent from either office:

Finances: banking and SIN

Please remember to set yourself up for automatic deposit in BearTracks. If you have difficulty, please try again in a few days. Once HR sets you up, it should work. Alternatively you may send the Electronic Banking/Direct Deposit form to the Graduate Advisor.

Instructions and link to the direct deposit form

Setting up a Bank Account

Getting a Social Insurance Number (SIN)

General references (Orientation, Programs, Funding, Library)

Orientation overviews

Programs

Funding: awards, scholarships, assistantships

(These pages certainly overlap, but hopefully don't contradict each other! :)

Other financial support (bursaries...)

Library

COVID updates

Please note this COVID checklist. Note that masking indoors is mandatory when physical distancing cannot be assured (as in this Orientation) and that anyone on campus must either be fully vaccinated or else undergo regular testing[2]

The policy response to COVID is evolving rapidly. We will continue to update this site as information comes in.

Student Health and Counseling Services

  • 24/7 Distress Line (780-482-4357) - provides support at any time of the day to those in distress or considering suicide. Also online crisis support.
  • Graduate Student Assistance Program: https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resource-services/index.html: 780-428-7587 - provides a wide variety of free services such as counselling and advice, crisis support, legal services, financial services, lifestyle services (personal trainer, nutritional counselling, smoking cessation). Students will need to specify they are a graduate student at the U of A and provide their One Card # to receive free services.
  • Counselling and Clinical Services: https://www.ualberta.ca/current-students/counselling/index.html provides high quality, accessible and compassionate psychological and psychiatric services to students to improve their personal, social, and academic well-being. Call-in and in-person drop by may be suspended, but here are the coordinates: telephone 780-492-5205, or drop by at 2-600 SUB for an initial consultation (M, R, F 8am-4:30pm and T, W 8am-7pm). Their website also has excellent resources (https://www.ualberta.ca/current-students/counselling/resources)
  • The University Health Centre: https://www.ualberta.ca/services/health-centre/index.html provides a wide range of professional, friendly and compassionate medical services to students and staff, including doctor appointments. They offer walk-in service and are located in 2-200 SUB

Safety Basics

https://www.ualberta.ca/protective-services/information-safety/basics-for-students

Smoke or Fire: Evacuate the area, direct your students to evacuate the building, activate the fire alarm, evacuate the building using the stairs, and proceed to your building muster point. If you have anyone in the class who cannot evacuate, call 780-492-5050 (Muster points can be found here: http://goo.gl/QmpMxP)

Fire Alarms: Evacuate the area, direct your students to evacuate the building using the stairs and proceed to your building muster point. If you have anyone in the class who cannot evacuate call 780-492-5050.

Medical Emergency: Render first aid assistance if trained, call 911 and follow instructions. Any situation that involves respiratory distress or arrest, cardiac arrest, large amount of blood loss, a casualty who cannot be moved, or any loss or change of consciousness should be considered a 911 emergency

Severe Weather: Direct your students to stay indoors, stay away from the windows, and check local media for instructions.

Water, Power or Heat emergencies: Edmonton Campuses: Call Facilities and Operations at 780-492-4855. Augustana Campus: Call Facilities and Operations at 780-679-1523.

Large Hazardous Materials Release or Spill: Evacuate the area, call 911, direct your students to evacuate the building using the stairs and proceed to your building muster point. If you have anyone in the class who cannot evacuate call 780-492-5050.

Suspicious Person, Package, or Unusual Activity: Be alert, avoid confrontation, call Protective Services at 780-492-5050, and follow their instructions.

Miscellaneous

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