Category: Of Interest
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Friendsgiving Potluck and Food Drive Nov 18
We invite you to join us November 18th 11:00-1:00pm for our second annual SEHD Friendsgiving Potluck. All are welcome. We will have yummy soups, tasty desserts, and opportunities for connection at the LSC 7th floor Student Commons. You are welcome to bring a treat to share, but not required. We are also still running our…
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Lewis-Burke Associates LLC Education and Workforce Policy Newsletter – November 2024
A View from Washington: While we are only days away from the 2024 election, we may not have immediate knowledge this Wednesday of the political shifts in Congress or even the White House with election results and counts anticipated to take days or longer. For education and workforce issues, a return to a Trump Administration…
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Calendly Available
After much process and procedure, we have approval to purchase Calendly licenses. We are looking at a bulk purchase and need to know who needs it and has the funds to purchase it. We are not funding these centrally, but if you would like to use operational, program, or PD funds, it costs $100 / seat /…
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EdPrepLab World Café | Designing Student-Centered Teacher Education: Content and Pedagogy
Educator Preparation Laboratory invites you to our 2024 – 2025 World Café Series Preparing Teachers for Transformative Education Hosted by Educator Preparatory Laboratory (an initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and Bank Street College of Education) Designing Student-Centered Teacher Education: Content and Pedagogy Tuesday, November 12 Session 1: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST (18:00 UTC) Session 2: 7:00…
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ED Review (10/25/24)
ANNOUNCEMENTS IN ATLANTA On October 17, Secretary Cardona traveled to Metro Atlanta, where he held a press conference at Atlanta City Hall to announce a significant milestone for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program and participated in a roundtable discussion at Five Forks Middle School in Gwinnett County to uplift additional mental health supports…
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SEHD Faculty Development Grant, Deadline October 29, 2024
Dean Marvin Lynn has approved funds for the SEHD Faculty Development Grant. Applications are now open for Fall 2024 SEHD Faculty Development Grant. Note, there will be another application call in Spring 2025 if the budget permits. Grants are available to full time faculty (T/TT, IRC/CT, TPT, Sr. Instructor & Instructor). The maximum amount of the award is $1000 dollars per year. To be eligible…
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HURRICANES HELENE AND MILTON Under President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ direction, the Administration continues to mobilize a robust, intensive, and whole-of-government response to the impacts of Hurricane Helene. As life-saving response efforts continue in heavily impacted areas, the Administration is also working to ensure communities across the Southeast have prompt access to federal resources to…
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Software, Classrooms, & AI (oh my!)
Software Upvote Thank you for upvoting on software needs, feel free to peruse the trendy winners here. We’ll use this input to lobby for software approvals from the mother ship, and consider fiscal investments into school level licensing. Most recent: Dedoose is under negotiation and discussion for campus or system licensing. Campus (Downtown and AMC) is most…
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ED Review (09/27/24)
IMPROVING THE FAFSA EXPERIENCE On September 23, Secretary Cardona sent a letter and white paper regarding the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) to leadership at all institutions of higher education, updating them on the progress that has been made — with the help of partners in the field — in the past year and detailing…
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SPSS Updates
TLDR: SPSS is now available for purchase / renewal via OnTheHub. Why & How: SPSS licenses are managed for the entire CU system via CU Boulder Office of Information Technology (OIT). CU Boulder and IBM were delayed in negotiating an SPSS license renewal this year, thus licenses expired and were not available to renew until now. …