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☀️The perks of summer residencies! 🌊

📸Master of Arts in Leadership students soak up the sunshine between sessions during their two-week on-campus residency.

Ok Class of Spring 2024, we snapped some great shots of you. Here are ALL your stage-crossing, fist-pumping, no-YOU'RE-crying moments. 👉 http://rru.life/l2

Are headed to YYJ soon for your on-campus residency? We asked current Master of Arts in Professional Communication students to share their experience. It's the chance to come to campus, connect with classmates in-person, and meet your professors IRL.

Masters students share on-campus residency memories

We’re excited to see the City of Langford's Official Community Plan come to life. Our collaborative West Shore campus, set to open in Langford in 2025, is an integral part of our shared future.

Congratulations City of Langford on the launch of your Official Community Plan refresh. We're proud to be part of this growing community.

RRU President Philip Steenkamp is among those awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal, recognizing people who have made significant contributions to Canada and their home provinces.

RRU president receives Coronation Medal

Master of Business Administration students finish up their on-campus residency with client presentations to Mark Greenburg, VP of business development at Craftsman Collision.

The students were given a business challenge and were responsible for preparing a proposal with potential solutions.

⭐Fun Fact: Greenburg is also an MBA alum!

For Mel, the BBA program offered the perfect blend of academic rigour and practical application, tailored for mature students. Learn more about Mel’s experience in the program. http://rru.life/kZ

James Gatiti benefited from a student award when he needed it most. Now the MAIIC grad is paying it forward with a $15,000 award commitment over the next three years.

Order up: coffee with a side of community inspires grad to give | Royal Roads University

From on-campus residencies, course assignments and class discussions, to more solitary endeavours doing research papers and thesis writing, learning moments abound for our Master of Arts in Professional Communications students. 💻📚📝🎓

MAPC students share their favourite learning moments

🎨🏳️‍🌈 On this International Non-Binary day, we're sharing Michael V. Smith's presentation on his body-based creative work.

This Body Is a Gift explores ways in which art can (de)construct gender as a functional tool for undoing, unseeing, unbecoming.

* 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆.

Watch the event recording 👉http://rru.life/kX

The assignment? Pick an organization that you would like to introduce coaching to.

Then, create strategies to be used to expand coaching in that organization, ways to overcome barriers to coaching and determine what outcomes are important.

This was just one of the many exercises, facilitated by instructors Tammy McLennan and Carolynne Conlinn, that Master of Arts in Executive and Organizational Coaching students participating in while on campus for their residency.

Interested in learning more about this program? 👉 https://www.royalroads.ca/programs/master-arts-executive-and-organizational-coaching

Royal Roads University receives the largest gift in its history valued at $9.93 million, which includes two acreages on Salt Spring Island designated for expanded programming.

The gift to RRU includes waterfront gardens, an orchard of heritage fruit trees, an architecturally significant house, as well as $5.268 million for land maintenance and improvement, programs and events.

This donation was made possible through the generosity of the late Susan Bagley Bloom, an environmental philanthropist and long-time resident of Salt Spring Island. Her gift will benefit the Salt Spring Island community, RRU students, faculty and staff, and the broader academic community.

We're excited to partner with Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust and Salt Spring Island Conservancyto steward and care for the lands and collaborate with the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN peoples of Salt Spring Island to ensure their interests in the lands are recognized and valued.

Royal Roads receives largest gift in university’s history

Wade for it: MSc in Environment and Management student Margot Webster will jump into the Salmon River to anchor the floating wetlands she built to help prevent algal blooms from taking over. Find out how she had to take ethical materials into account for her research: https://www.royalroads.ca/news/seeking-simple-solutions-climate-concerns

"I wanted to explore other ways of thinking about governance — for myself and for my own governance practice," says Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies student Kyla Epstein.

🎯 Her goal? A fresh perspective on the topic.

"...the whole idea for me was that I wanted to think about governance outside of the...discipline it often lives in. So, that got me to the Interdisciplinary Studies department at Royal Roads." 💡

And it's offered new ways of looking at governance.

🌎 "For example, in the course Global Perspectives on Indigenous Ways of Knowing (INDS515), I looked at alternative ways of decision making for boards of directors that were based on different Indigenous ways of decision making."

Kyla Epstein reimagines governance

Check out our MA in Professional Communication students delivering keynotes and sharing feedback during their on-campus residency. Their dedication and passion shine as they prep for an imagined 'World Conference'.

Together, their instructors Juli Holloway and Corinne Thiessen won the 2022 Outstanding Associate Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in the MA programs. You can tell these bright students love working with them to learn strategic communications grounded in practical application.

Learn more about the MAPC: http://rru.life/kM

BBA students are making an ⚡impact through e-commerce. They're participating in an exciting venture challenge to learn about running an online business with proceeds from sales going to charity💙.

Customers can choose from fair-trade chocolate🍫, local coffee beans ☕, pet accessories🐶, outdoor gear 🌲 and stylish totes👜. Check out our student businesses 👉 https://www.royalroads.ca/news/bba-students-make-impact-through-e-commerce

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Do you spend time in the tranquility of the Japanese Gardens on campus? 🌸 Master of Arts in Leadership and Training alum Eve Martin did when she was a member of Royal Roads University's first-ever class in 1995.

Eve and her husband Paul donated $250,000 to support the addition of a teahouse to the Japanese garden.

Read more about what this gift means for RRU.

$250K donation supports building of Japanese Teahouse

🏳️‍🌈 We celebrated love, diversity and unity at our RRU Pride Social including not one, but TWO unforgettable performances by the one and only Hazel! The energy was electric, the outfits were on point and the cheers were endless. Happy Pride!

Thanks to Royal Roads University Student Services, the Diversity Action Group, and the Office of Human Rights and EDI for putting on a fabulous party, and to Hazel and Island Sexual Health for joining us!

RRU alum Stephen Camp has been advocating for the inclusion of a standalone hate crime section in Canada’s Criminal Code for nearly two decades.

Camp credits his time in RRU’s Master of Arts in Justice Studies program with helping his advocacy.

“The program allowed me to do a ton of research in the hate crime domain that I’ve always wanted to do and to build up arguments for frameworks or strategies to improve society’s response to hate crime,” he says.

His goal is a little closer to reality this spring with Bill 63, the Online Harms Act, receiving second reading in Parliament.

Justice grad stands against hate

“My relationships with these emerging scholars are the best part of my job,” writes Shauneen Pete, chair of the Emerging Indigenous Scholars Circle at Royal Roads University.

In her recent opinion piece for University Affairs / Affaires universitaires, Pete describes the impact of emerging Indigenous scholars when they are supported with mentorship and community.

Emerging Indigenous scholars advance resurgence and decolonization | Royal Roads University