Become a College Fellow
Trent’s collegiate community offers a unique opportunity for the creation of engaging and meaningful experiences for our staff and faculty.
What are the benefits to joining a college?
Trent’s colleges offer an opportunity to find somewhere to belong, discover, and innovate amongst a community of peers. Colleges work together to develop social and academic events, foster connections between students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and uphold longstanding traditions that facilitate a sense of belonging.
Find a place to belong at Trent
Choosing a college means joining a community with an illustrious history, filled with meaningful traditions and accompanied by some of the most innovative minds in Canada.
Collaborate and socialize together
Working at Trent is made even more meaningful when staff and faculty are able to gather together, with each other and with students. Colleges are the perfect spaces to collaborate and socialize.
Ready to take the next step?
Everyone has a next step. Discover everything there is to love about the Colleges at Trent and then dive on in!
Meet Trent's Colleges
Discover what makes the Colleges of Trent University unique by hearing from each college principal.
Otonabee College
At Otonabee College, we agree with the timeless saying that you cannot step into the same river twice – because it is always changing. OC students are known to lead change with heart. Their passion exemplifies the name of our river and our college – “the Otonabee” – an Ojibwe word meaning “the river that beats like a heart.” We honour the steady beat of the river and its impact on surrounding life with our vision for developing a strong sense of belonging and innovation.
Peter Gzowski College
Gzowski College is named after the distinguished Canadian broadcaster and former Trent Chancellor, Peter Gzowski. Adored by Canadians, he listened and welcomed conversation and diverse opinions. That makes it fitting that Gzowski College is housed within Trent's Enwayaang building, an Anishinaabek word meaning "the way we speak together." Indigenous knowledge is central to our spirit and influences our programming. Home to young and vibrant change makers, the college balances traditional knowledge with modern ideas: we take intellectual risks for great rewards.
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Champlain College
At Champlain, the oldest college on the Symons Campus, we balance academic excellence with proud spirit. Champlainers are known for an abundance of tradition and heart, together with values emphasizing inclusivity, active living and global perspectives. Here we welcome Discovery, Adventure, Reflection, and Engagement in all aspects of university life. DARE to be Champlain!
Lady Eaton College
At Lady Eaton College, tradition meets youthful passion in a welcoming energetic community that bursts with “LEC” pride and the spirit of Gemütlich (feeling comfortably at home, welcomed by friends). Our namesake is a brilliant and inspiring Canadian, Lady Flora McCrea Eaton, who challenged us to “Have an open mind, trust, learn every day, and keep doing it as long as you live.” Creative, curious, warm – members of Lady Eaton College are known for their welcoming nature, their dedication to their studies, and their artistic flair.
Catharine Parr Traill College
TraillWow! One of Trent’s original colleges and the only college located in downtown Peterborough, Traill is a community of forward-thinking and creative “Traillblazers.” Named after nineteenth-century author and naturalist Catharine Parr Traill, our College is a student oasis situated five minutes away from the centre of Peterborough. The College feels like a small university within the larger university and that’s the point. Here, students may lose themselves in their books, but they will never be lost in the crowd. A downtown hub, Traill is a place where students of all years of study congregate together to create an environment where diversity and blending of ideas thrive.
More Questions?
Here’s a little more information to help you make your choice.
Although the process was discontinued, new staff/faculty were once assigned to a college when they began at Trent. Since that time, you may have moved locations and/or switched your affiliation but the system may not have caught up with you. You can change your affiliation now, by following the affiliation process on myTrent.
This is a new system that helps us to keep an up-to-date list of college fellows. While each college is working on inputting their confirmed fellows through this process, we may not have reached you yet. Feel free to confirm/re-confirm your affiliation on myTrent now, to help us keep track.
Fellowship can only be held in one college, although some faculty and staff continue to hold office space, and or/receive email updates, in more than one college community.
Some faculty and staff consider themselves fellows in one college, and friends of multiple colleges. Some of you will receive updates based on your department’s location within a collegiate building, but you may choose to be a fellow in in a different college from where your office/department is housed.
If your office is at Traill College, you are automatically a fellow of Traill College. At the Symons campus, you may have an office in one college while choosing to hold fellowship in a different college. In this case, you may receive housekeeping updates from the college that your office is in while receiving more specific collegiate news from the college where you are a fellow.
Not necessarily. If your academic department is in a college building, they are considered affiliated with that college and will receive college updates, but your individual fellowship can be different from where your department is. This is because Trent University’s collegiate system was founded on an interdisciplinary model and not all faculty offices for a program are necessarily found in the same building(s). Our students do not pick their college based on their academic discipline and we encourage the same interdisciplinary for faculty and staff.
Trent is a collegiate university and we welcome and encourage all staff and faculty to become a fellow of one of Trent’s colleges. Every student at Trent is affiliated with a college which provides them with a close-knit and supportive community where they are given many opportunities to get involved. These opportunities are even richer and more meaningful when the experiences and opportunities include opportunities to interact with faculty and staff.
Ready to make it official?
Are you ready to make your final choice? Head to myTrent through the button below and make it official.