Heard it through the grapevine? Not with CCR

A new initiative from Memorial University's office of Student Affairs and Services is in the works. The Co-Curricular Record(CCR)reads like an academic transcript and documents a student’s involvement on campus throughout the year, accounting for various kinds of out-of-class learning. The service will be available to both undergraduate and graduate students, and will be extremely useful when applying for jobs, scholarships and awards, and building professional portfolios. Memorial is one of the first Canadian universities to implement the CCR; as Noreen Golfman, the Dean of Graduate Studies notes, it is an invaluable resource for grad students, many of whom participate in such activities as organizing conferences and running departmental societies, and until now, have not received 'credit' for these contributions to their university community. CCR is a formal method for communicating with potential employers and a launchpad for networking; it will be launched in fall 2010.