Alumni and Friends

Your affiliation with the University of Regina affords you many personal benefits. As an alumnus you can access valuable services offered exclusively to you by our affinity partners - Manulife, TD Home and Auto Insurance, and Degree frames from Milburn Universal Designs. The U of R offers many opportunities for alumni and friends to keep in touch, learn, and make new connections.

Learn about all the benefits of being a U of R alum!

Nominations are now open for the 2025 ACAAs!

Every year, the University of Regina celebrates the best and brightest among its more than 92,000 alumni with the Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards (ACAAs). Established in 1992, the ACAAs were created to honour our extraordinary alumni for their outstanding commitment to excellence, community engagement and leadership, and impact on the social, cultural, and economic well-being of our communities.

Since graduating from the U of R, Shawn Fraser BA’07 has made a career dedicated to caring for community. Following older siblings to Luther College from Carnduff Saskatchewan, Shawn found a built-in community of like-minded people that has helped him build a fulfilling life here in Regina. A career that has thus far included work with Regina’s Carmichael Outreach, the YMCA Regina, and a term on Regina City Council has led him to his current role as Chief Executive Officer of the John Howard Society Saskatchewan where he and a dedicated team work to help people who are at risk or involved in the criminal justice system. He talks to Degrees about what he loves about his work, the value of a smaller university experience, and what he’s looking forward to next.

 
As the University of Regina looks ahead to equipping the next generation of journalists and communicators with its new BA in Journalism, News Media and Communication, Degrees caught up with four School of Journalism alumni. Whether reporting from Washington,the Paris Games, or rewriting the narrative with Indigenous storytelling, Kerry Benjoe BA’00, MJ’20, Devin Heroux BJ’12, Kelly Malone BAJ’13, and Dani Wawryk BAJ ’09 are at the top of their game in an ever-changing industry.

Timothy Long BFA’86, BAHons’86, retiring head curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, chats with Degrees magazine about his extraordinary career, and Whispers from the Vault, the final exhibition Long curated before his retirement in fall 2024. The show, which runs until June 16, 2025, is drawn solely from the gallery’s Permanent Collection, on which Long has become the definitive expert over the 35 years he’s worked there. “People kept asking me if [the works in the show] are my favourite works from the vault. I said, ‘No. These are my favourite stories connected to works from the vault.’”