For years, one of the highlights each fall in Toronto has been the Toronto International Film Festival, popularly known as TIFF. After a two year online hiatus, this fall TIFF is back live and in person. As part of that, on two weekends in early September there is an opportunity for members of the incoming Rotman class to volunteer to help raise funds for a group that sponsors refugees to come to Canada. Among the volunteers who volunteered for this in 2019 were some incoming students in the Rotman class of 2021 and today three Rotman alum are members of the organizing committee for this initiative. 

In 2015, members of the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto formed the St. Andrew’s Refugee Sponsorship Committee (STARs) that has helped support refugees from Syria, Rwanda and Afghanistan. A major hub for TIFF is Roy Thomson Hall, directly across the street from St. Andrew’s. On the opening weekend of TIFF from Friday September 9 to Sunday September 11, the street in front of Roy Thomson Hall will be closed and STARs volunteers will be selling cookies to support its work in sponsoring refugees. When it did this in 2019, volunteers commented on the overwhelmingly positive response from passersby and it raised over $7500. 

This year STARs needs help on two weekends: 

Saturday Sept 3 and Sunday Sept 4 on the Labour Day weekend when they’ll be packaging cookies 

The weekend of September 9, 10, or 11 when they’ll be selling cookies 

Below are the times that help is needed. If you’re able to volunteer at one of the times below or have any questions, please send an email indicating when you can help to Sameer Pinto (a 2019 Rotman grad who works at RBC) at sameer.pinto88@gmail.com.

Note that St. Andrew’s is located at the corner of King Street West and Simcoe (one block from the St. Andrew’s subway station.) 

We are pleased to introduce the University’s centralized, online course evaluations system Blue. Student feedback is essential to the teaching and learning experience at the Rotman School of Management. We appreciate you taking the time to provide insight on what you liked about the course, what you’ve learned and what parts could use improvement.  Your thoughtful feedback helps professors identify what is working and how they can restructure and refine future iterations of the course.

WHY?

Student feedback is essential to the teaching and learning experience at the Rotman School of Management. We appreciate you taking the time to provide insight on what you liked about the course, what you’ve learned and what parts could use improvement.  Your thoughtful feedback helps professors identify what is working and how they can restructure and refine future iterations of the course.

Course evaluations represent both students’ right to have their voice heard and their responsibility to the university and their peers. Taking the time to fill out evaluations is important because it

• Helps you: provides an opportunity to reflect on learnings
• Helps instructors: provides feedback on what is working and what could use improvement
• Helps fellow students: provides feedback that improves courses and can assist peers in making decisions when selecting courses
• Helps the university: provides data used to support and inform summative review purposes such as annual merit, tenure, and promotion review

HOW?

The Blue system will open on the last day of class starting at midnight and will be open for 72 hours, but your instructor should be providing time during the class as well to complete the evaluation.

During the course evaluation period, you can access them in two ways:

1. Via the personalized email link that you’ll receive from course.evaluations@utoronto.ca.
2. Via Quercus. Log-in to Quercus and access the Course Evals page. All of your active course evaluation tasks will be displayed in the Complete Your Evaluations section.

You will get these notifications for each course you are enrolled, so do remember to participate in all invitations!

QUESTIONS?

If you are unable to access your evaluations, please contact course.evaluations@utoronto.ca.

Thank you for your help in the continuous improvement of Rotman courses. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office (ro@rotman.utoronto.ca).  

The Blue system will open on the last day of class starting at midnight and will be open for 72 hours, but your instructor should be providing time during the class as well to complete the evaluation.

Welcome! The staff of the Milt Harris Library (5th floor of the South building) are here to help you with your research during your time at Rotman. Some highlights are: 

• Shortcuts to key business databases are available here. They work off-campus. Includes Investext, IBISWorld, SimplyAnalytics, Factiva and Business Source Premier.
• Shortcuts to online newspapers/magazine access including national newspapers, Harvard Business Review and the Economist. 
• Career prep materials include Case In Print, Case Interview Secrets, Ace the Data Science Interview. Search the catalogue for more!

Librarians are available virtually for research consultations between 9-4, Monday – Friday. You can e-mail Holly Inglis holly.inglis@rotman.utoronto.ca or Sean Forbes forbes@rotman.utoronto.ca directly, or contact bicstaff@rotman.utoronto.ca.

We’re happy to help you explore our resources including company profiles, industry reports, market research, and more. We will also help you with any questions about citing materials properly, though we do not check your citations.