SAIT Update
Keep up to date with important announcements and news, get connected to the support and resources you need, and make the most of your time here at SAIT.
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Be sure to check your email at the beginning of each week for important reminders, events and need-to-know information.
Upcoming dates and deadlines
- Friday, May 16 | Tuition payment deadline (continuing students)
- Friday, May 16 | Final day to apply for transfer credit or PLAR
- Friday, May 16 | Add/drop period ends for most full-time programs
- Friday, May 16 | Final day to opt out or add family to Saitsa health and dental benefits
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🏃♀️ Get active this spring
Trojans Athletics and Recreation is offering exciting free recreation opportunities and classes for students in Spring 2025! Register for a a co-ed or women's-only intramurals team in soccer, ultimate frisbee, volleyball and more, and compete against other students in weekly games.
Sign up for a flow yoga or Zumba class, led by accredited instructors, on select dates in May and June. Spaces are limited, so register soon!
📝 Master the skills of academic success
What's the key to being more academically successful? It starts by harnessing learning strategies and getting support when you need it. The Lamb Learner Success Centre's Learn to Learn Seminar Series can teach you about:
- sentence structure and flow
- anti-plagiarism
- how to write academic essays.
The seminars run from Tuesday, May 13 until Thursday, June 12.
⭐ Volunteer for Celebrate SAIT Day
Volunteer for Celebrate SAIT Day, institution's annual employee celebration, on Wednesday, May 28! Gain volunteer experience and get to know the SAIT community by supporting check-in, helping workshop hosts or supporting headshot photography.
Sign up by Thursday, May 22 to help make the event a success.
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🥗 Grab lunch for just $2.99
Treat yourself to something tasty, affordable and budget-friendly. You can grab a meal for just $2.99 at Market Express, located in the Stan Grad Food Court.
💖 Build resilience and mental well-being habits
On Monday, May 13, from 8 am – 5 pm, join us for the Mental Health Symposium on our main campus. By participating in workshops, break-out sessions and other practices, you can learn about supports available to you as a student on campus and ways you can build healthy habits.
Most sessions run between 30 minutes and an hour — so read more and find what you need for your mental wellness.
👗 Red Dress Day at SAIT
Today is Red Dress Day. Red Dress Day is a time to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+). Last week, Elder Floranda Kootenay offered a moment of reflection with a prayer, smudging ceremony and teachings from the Stoney Nakoda Nation. Red dresses on campus stands as a visual commemoration and a call to action — to remember, to honour and to advocate for justice for MMIWG2S+.
SAIT will march in the Sisters in Spirit Vigil in October. Details to join will be included in the SAIT Truth and Reconciliation Event Series this fall. Learn about Natoysopoyiis, SAIT's Indigenous learner support centre.
An independent, national, toll-free murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls support call line is available to support anyone who requires assistance at 1.844.413.6649. It's free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
💡 Measles outbreak awareness
The Government of Alberta has indicated a measles outbreak in Alberta. Measles is a preventable disease and vaccines are provided free of charge for eligible populations through Alberta Health Services. Learn more about the outbreak here.
If you experience measles symptoms, please help limit the spread — stay home and call 811 to report symptoms. Vaccines are available for free at SAIT’s Health Clinic. Please call 403.284.8666 to book a vaccination appointment with the clinic — no walk-ins are accepted.
🚗 Parking rate adjustments
Effective immediately, daily maximum rates have increased by $1 in select campus parking lots.
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What else you should know
ICYMI
- A section of 10 Street NW (north of 3 Ave NW and south of 5 Ave NW) will be closed from until Sunday, April 6 as part of the Gladstone connect project. Follow detour signage and plan your route accordingly.
- Elevator modernization in the Senator Burns building is underway. Learn about the Elevator and Escalator Modernization project and check the status of outages on campus.
Further testing following the City of Calgary’s intensive water testing protocols has revealed elevated inorganic substances in 10 point-of-use locations out of the 106 locations tested.
Eight of these points of use locations are in the Senator Burns building, one in the Thomas Riley building and one at the Mayland Heights campus. Testing was completed on all drinking fountains, water bottle filling stations, office kitchen sinks and commercial kitchens in legacy buildings on campus.
Learn about the impacted areas as well as protective and corrective actions being taken.
Student news
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.