Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the current campus and travel conditions. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO) and on 585 phone system voicemail. If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Tuesday January 27, 2026 @ 9:42 am)

Virtual Event | Acadia Alumni Book Club to feature Laura Churchill Duke novels



Laura Churchill Duke ('98) is the next featured author in our Acadia Alumni Book Club series. We invite you to read her work, Rooted in Deception and join the conversation on Monday, August 25, 7-8 p.m., during our next virtual Book Club meeting. If you are feeling ambitious and wish to read more, we will also be discussing her other work, Footprints in the Snow.

REGISTRATION: If you would like to participate, please e-mail Events Coordinator Victoria Hendrycks at: victoria.hendrycks@acadiau.ca.

We look forward to seeing you, and please keep in mind Book Club members do not have to be Acadia affiliates; the Club is open to everyone. You can register anytime and participate in the session of your choice.

So far, we’ve looked at the Honourable Donald Oliver’s (’50, ’07 HON) highly anticipated autobiography, A Matter of Equality:  The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver; Jim Prime’s (’69) and Ben Robicheau’s fictional comedy, Fish and Dicks: Case Files from Digby Neck and Islands Fish-Gutting Service and Detective Agency; Two Crows Sorrow, a work of creative fiction by Laura Churchill Duke (’98); Peter Cleveland’s (’72) Double Shot of Scotch; Deborah Hemming’s, Throw Down Your Shadows; Tony Thomson’s About Face: A Mystery; Andria Hill-Lehr’s Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, From Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe; Amanda Peters’s The Berry Pickers; Christy Ann Conlin’s Heave and most recently Shelley Thompson’s ROAR.