Teams from the Odette School of Business swept through student competition at the Enactus Regional Exposition, March 11 in Mississauga, securing a spot in May’s national exposition in every category.

Members of the student entrepreneur advocacy group’s Windsor chapter won plaudits in four team challenges:

• The Cookstart Inc. consulting program, which helps entrepreneurs build their own food businesses, topped the TD Entrepreneurship Challenge.
• CityThrive, which teaches valuable financial literacy and business skills to individuals on social assistance, won the Capital One Financial Literacy Challenge.
• The curriculum-based program, Youthrive 2.0, which seeks to empower high school students by teaching them business, presentation, and entrepreneurship skills, secured honours in the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge.
• An eight-week program encouraging grade 7 students to create their own environmentally-oriented businesses won the Scotiabank Eco-Living Green Challenge.

The UWindsor teams—comprising 50 students from the Odette School of Business—beat out 70 others from schools across the region to represent Central Canada at the national exposition, May 2 to 4 in Toronto.

Lawyers will give career advice based on their years of experience in politics during a panel discussion Monday, March 21, in the law building’s Moot Court.

The event, “Alternative Legal Careers: Lawyers in Politics,” will feature several Windsor Law alumni:

• Sarmite Bulte (LLB 1978), Liberal Member of Parliament for Parkdale-High Park from 1997 to 2006;
• Joe Comartin (LLB 1971), New Democrat Member of Parliament for Windsor-Tecumseh from 2000 to 2015;
• Robert Sheldon (JD 2012), formerly with the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman and a staffer to then-education minster Kathleen Wynne;
• Joanna Sweet (LLB 2005), coordinator of the MA internship for the UWindsor political science department;

and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan state legislature, now community partnerships and development director for the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice.

The discussion will run noon to 1:30 p.m. RSVP on Symplicity and find more information, including more detailed biographies of the panelists, on the Facebook event page.

Because interdisciplinarity has become so thoroughly integrated across campus, the University no longer needs dedicated body to administer inter-faculty programs, provost Douglas Kneale said Thursday in announcing that programs currently housed in the Centre for Inter-Faculty Programs will be administered by the faculties of education; science; and arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The programs themselves will continue in their present form, Dr. Kneale wrote in a message to the campus community, but effective May 1:

• Anthrozoology, Arts and Science, Digital Journalism, and the new PhD in Argumentation will move to FAHSS;
• Organizational Learning and Teaching will move to Education; and
• Environmental Studies and Forensics will move to Science.

“The Centre for Inter-Faculty Programs was created in 2003 to house programs that lacked a parent faculty,” Kneale said. “In the decade and more since then, a lot has changed, and now that faculties are bringing the above programs into their tents, the main reason for running the centre no longer exists.”

Lydia Miljan will continue as assistant provost during the transition.

A new service of the Campus Bookstore offers e-mail notices about its sales and promotions, as well as any coupons available for use in the store, located on the lower level of the CAW Student Centre.

Interested individuals can sign up at a special-purpose kiosk in the bookstore, on its website or on its Facebook page.