Hands-On Learning at Trent On Display for Visitors from Canada Border Services Agency
Tina Namiesniowski executive vice‐president tours campus
Hands-on learning opportunities for Trent University students were on display on October 18 for special visitors to Trent University from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Ms. Tina Namiesniowski, executive vice-president; Ms. Linne Fournier, director of the strategic workforce management division; Mr. Stephen Braham ‘96, Trent alum and chief of staff; Ms. Katherine Gendreau, manager of the employee engagement and recognition team, and Mr. William Fifield, student ambassador coordinator were welcomed to the Symons campus.
Their visit to campus included a networking event with Trent students, a visit to Trent’s on-campus tipi, and a tour of Trent’s Crime Scene House, a two-storey farmhouse where casework comes to life for Forensic Science students. Starting in first-year, students have the chance to collect evidence, and process information from different mock crime scenes in this unique learning environment.
Ms. Namiesniowski is Canada’s federal deputy minister champion for Trent as part of the Deputy Minister University Champion initiative which seeks to strengthen linkages between the Government of Canada and Canadian universities and works to promote education and research, as well as to build awareness of career opportunities in the federal public service. Ms. Namiesniowski joined the federal government in 1989 and has been at the executive level for more than fifteen years. She brings extensive experience in policy development, program delivery, international relations, intergovernmental affairs and citizen engagement.