Friday, October 29, 2010

EPE Spring Course Offerings

Attention students: Registration for the Spring 2011 term will begin Monday, November 1st. The Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation has a number of courses available to choose from. Below are just a few of the courses we have to offer.

EPE 570-001 Gathering, Analyzing, & Using Educational Data II
The course covers applications of statistical and graphical methods. Topics to be covered include descriptive statistics, correlation, normal distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, ANOVA, and power. General goals of this course include: developing an understanding of statistical concepts, improving reasoning and critical thinking skills, and to prepare students for more advanced quantitative courses. Students will gain valuable statistical computing skills utilizing MINITAB Statistical Software.  This class may be used as an introductory statistics course, as a follow-up course to 557 for those that feel they may need an additional course before moving on to 660, or as a final quantitative course for those that need an introduction to anova/regression as their highest level of statistics.  Check out course materials at www.uky.edu/~kdbrad2 EPE 570-001 meets Thursdays from 9:30- Noon in Room 246 Taylor Education Building.  Dr. Kelly Bradley will leading this course.  Contact Dr. Bradley with additional questions at kdbrad2@uky.edu.

EPE 632-401 Student Services
This course focuses on students services (broadly defined) and those who work with college and university students outside of the academic arena. The course not only surveys the history of student services but critically examines its theoretical bases and current practices with special attention paid to the relationship between students services and other segments of campus.
EPE 632-401 meets Mondays from 6:30-9 PM in Room 113 of the Patterson Office Tower.  This course will be taught by Dr. Judy Jackson, Vice President of UK's Office for Institutional Diversity.

EPE 640-001 Philosophy of Education
"I believe more than ever in the importance of philosophy of education (see my retirement statement in the readings for the ProSeminar*).  Philosophy examines people's beliefs for what they assume about the nature of knowledge, reality and value.  Philosophy can enable educators to better understand positions that challenge their own, and find grounds for for common agreement among them."
EPE 640-001 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 203 Dickey Hall.  This class will be led by Dr. Clinton Collins, Emeritus Faculty in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation.
*For a copy of Dr. Collins retirement statment, contact Amberly at aaburk00@uky.edu

EPE 525/773-001 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "On Display:  Collections, Exhibitions and Politics"
Why would a student of education take an interest in museums and collections? Because reflection this broad topic promises to enlarge your imagination about education and its history. The readings for the course (as well as our weekly discussions) will be organized around two basic texts: Steven Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 (Chicago,1998) and Andrew McClellan, The Art Museum: From Boulee to Bilbao (California, 2008). Three field trips to different types of museums in Cincinnati are also planned. A 20 page paper on a topic of your choosing will be due at the end of the course.
EPE 525/773-001 meets Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 129 Dickey Hall.  This course will be co-taught by Dr. Richard Angelo and Dr. Wallace Miller of UK's College of Design.  It is also cross listed with ARC 512 and A-H 528. 

EPE 525/773-002 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "History of Education in Kentucky"
This is a seminar in the classical sense: the emphasis is on conducting research. Open to advanced as well as beginning graduate students, it represents an opportunity to work on a local history topic of your choosing in a systematic way. Consistent with that aim, common readings will be kept to a minimum (e.g., Ronald Butchart, Local Schools: Exploring their History (Alta Mira Pres, 1986)
EPE 525/773-002 meets Thursdays from 12:30-3 PM in Room 127 Dickey Hall.  This course will be led by Dr. Richard Angelo.

EPE 773-003 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Introduction to Rasch Measurement"
The purpose of the course is to introduce participants to the theory and applications of Rasch measurement and provide hands-on experience using Winsteps. Students will become effective consumers of research employing Rasch measurement and the foundation to solve practical measurement problems.
EPE 773-003 meets Thursdays from 12:30-3 PM in Room 140 Taylor Education Building.  Dr. Kelly Bradley will be instructing this course. 

EPE 773-004 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Applied Structural Equation Modeling- With an application in latent growth curve modeling (LGM)"
Applied structural equation modeling (SEM): With an application in latent growth curve modeling (LGM)) covers a variety of topics in SEM where a smaller number of latent variables are assumed to exist that explain covariances and correlations between observed/manifest variables: Observed data from dozens of personality test items purport to indirectly measure a handful of such latent personality traits as extroversion and introversion. Topics in this course include the following: review of basic concepts (mean, correlation, covariance, etc.), path analysis of observed measures, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), general structural equation models incorporating measurement and structural models, etc. Both single-group analysis and multiple-group comparison will be covered. This course will also provide an introduction of analyzing longitudinal data from the SEM perspective, or latent growth curve modeling.
EPE 773-004 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 140 Taylor Education Building.  Dr. Hongwei (Patrick) Yang will be teaching this course.  Please email Amberly at aaburk00@uky.edu for a detailed copy of the syllabus of this course.  If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Yang at hya222@uky.edu

EPE 773-401 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Global Education and Popular Culture" meets Mondays from 7-9:30 PM in Room 122 Taylor Education Building.  This course will be taught by Dr. Karen Tice.

EPE 798-001 Seminar in Higher Education "Legal Issues in Student Affairs"
This course will offer a focused inquiry into legal issues in higher education in relation to common legal issues encountered by student affairs professionals, especially in regards to their work with students. The course will cover topics that include student liability, privacy issues (especially in relation to FERPA), student speech rights, and student conduct. While there is not any pre-requisite for the course, it will be helpful to have had an introductory higher education law course. For those students not having had such a course, they should be prepared to engage in additional reading and preparation so that they will find the materials in the course meaningful.
EPE 798-001 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 in Room 127 Dickey Hall.  Dr. Neal Hutchens leads this course. 

EPE 798-002 Seminar in Higher Education "Post Secondary Transitions"
This course is designed as a survey of the stages of post-secondary transition common to most college students. The format of the class is a series of seven modules which trace student progress from high school through college graduation. We will focus on the following transitions: secondary enrichment and acceleration programs (e.g. dual enrollment); summer bridge programs; first year orientation programming; general education; community college transfer to the four year; transition into the discipline/major; and senior capstone activities. In each module, we will review current models of practice, their conceptual rationales, and methods of assessment and evaluation. Students will select four of the seven topics to develop in-depth white papers demonstrating a critical analysis of a problem of practice in those areas.
EPE 798-002 meets Tuesdays from 9:30 AM- Noon in Room 127 Dickey Hall.  Dr. Jane Jensen will be instructing this course. For more information about the course, contact Dr. Jane Jensen jjensen@uky.edu.

EPE 798-401 Seminar in Higher Education "Sociology of Education:  Education & Inequality"
We will examine, from a sociological perspective, the myriad of ways in which formal education systems affect and are affected by inequality in industrial and post-industrial societies. With a focus on the role of education, we will survey established and emerging sociological explanations of inequality. We will also evaluate a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological studies of inequality in education and inequality produced or maintained by education.
EPE 798-401 meets Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM in Room 127 Dickey Hall.  Dr. Eric Reed teaches this course.

UK Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series 2010-2011

UK Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series 2010-2011
Presents
Dr. John Sherry
Director of User Experience Design
Intel Corporation
"The Evolving Role of Ethnographic Research in Industry"
Friday, November 5, 2010
4:00 pm
18th Floor Patterson Office Tower
West Boardroom

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Anime festival at UK Library

Kazuko Hioki, Conservation Librarian in UK Libraries, 
has organized
an "Anime Film Festival" 
to be held in Young Library 
on Nov. 10th and Nov. 11th. 
The event includes three Japanese animation films:

November 10    7 pm       Paprika
November 11    6:30 pm    Spirited away
               8:45 pm    Panel discussion by UK students
               9: 15 pm   Ghost in the Shell 2.0

In addition, she is installing a "Manga Corner" atYoung Library 
to display  newly acquired Japanese graphic novels. 
For more information about the animation
films and manga, visit the "East Asian Library Resource" 
https://kentuckyasia.wordpress.com/.

The Anime event is a part of ArtsAsia Festival. 
For more information about the ArtsAsia:
http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/EmbraceAsia/schedule-2010.php

Spring Opening for Assistantship in the Study

(Please go to the UK jobs site for information and application for a new assistantship opportunity:   http://ukjobs.uky.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=222734.)

Located in The Study, Academic Enhancement (AE) is a centralized resource available to all UK students, staff, and faculty, across all colleges and majors. AE houses a number of academic initiatives, including the Peer Tutoring Program, Individual Academic Consultations, Study Smarter Seminars, EPE 174, Study Strategy Presentations, GRE/GMAT Prep Courses, ACT Prep Courses, and others. AE endeavors to enhance the academic experience of both students and faculty at the University of Kentucky. Staff at The Study strive to achieve this goal by working closely with students and faculty to develop student-responsive programs that best serve the entire campus community.

Academic Enhancement is currently anticipating openings for Graduate or Teaching Assistants for the spring 2011 semester. Responsibilities may include some of the following:

  • As a member of the AE senior staff team, contribute to the overall mission and academic life of the department, participate in regular meetings and discussions, and continually work to improve all programs and services.
  • Teach one section EPE 174: Theories of College Student Success.
  • Teach and coordinate all aspects of Study Smarter Seminars, including recruitment, promotion, registration, and assessment.
  • Teach and coordinate all aspects of GRE/GMAT Prep Courses, including recruitment, promotion, registration, and assessment.
  • Teach and coordinate all aspects of ACT Prep Courses, including recruitment, promotion, registration, and assessment.
  • Provide individual academic consultations as an opportunity for individual students.
  • Provide presentations on a number of topics including time management, test anxiety, note-taking, critical reading, exam prep, etc., across campus and in multiple settings including classrooms, residence halls, student organization meetings, and others.
  • Manage financial accounting responsibilities in close coordination with AE professional staff.
  • Work with AE professional staff to develop a cyclical plan of assessment encompassing all departmental programs and services.
  • Create, maintain, and improve departmental website and online resources (using HTML, PHP, and some Java, as well as Dreamweaver).
  • Provide desktop support to AE staff at all levels.
  • Participate in other projects or initiatives within the department as assigned by AE professional staff.
  • Other duties as assigned.

A complete application includes the following: completing the online application, submitting your resume with references, a letter of interest, and a copy of your unofficial transcript (PDF version from myUK is acceptable). Please upload all documents online during the application process.

REQUIRED: Enthusiastic about working with undergraduate students; excellent verbal and written communication skills; individuals who work well in a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive environment/as part of a team; ability to work autonomously; comfortable speaking in front of large groups; excellent public speaking skills; willing to learn; innovative; creative; professional.

PREFERRED: Familiarity with all Microsoft Office programs; experience with design, marketing, statistical analysis, curriculum design, teaching experience, or formative assessment a plus.

BACKGROUND: Pursuing doctoral or masters degree in higher education, educational psychology, education, psychology, social sciences, or related field.

additional panel member needed for Careers in Student Affairs Conference on Saturday at 11 am

The Careers in Student Affairs Conference will be hosted at the UK College of Education this Saturday. And we find ourselves needing to add a current EPE student or two to join a panel at 11 am that will be geared towards undergraduate students considering programs in higher education or student affairs.

If you would be available to help out with this on Saturday, please contact Neal Hutchens (neal.hutchens@uky.edu).  Besides helping out with a worthy event, lunch will also be provided :-)

Thank you. 

Monday, October 25, 2010

TODAY

"Puentes: Cultivating Andean-Appalachian Dialogue & Solidarity"
Featuring Jack Herranen & Special Guests
Monday, October 25, 2010

There are three parts to the event. Feel free to attend one or all of
the following:

11:30am-- Film Screening: Caminando Nuestros Caminos de Siempre:
Afirmando Nuestros Saberes (Walking Ancient Paths: Affirming Our
Wisdoms) in the Taylor Education Bldg Auditorium

Noon-1pm—Lunchtime Concert & Dialogue in the Taylor Education Bldg Auditorium

6pm—Concernt & Dialogue, Niles Gallery in the John Jacob Niles Center

This event is free and open to the public.

About Jack Herranen:
Jack Herranen lives in Bolivia with his Bolivian wife and family and
they began a group called Puentes--a grassroots organization working
to *bridge* Andean and Appalachian rural communities and issues to
foster inter-American solidarity. They made a documentary about their
community work/indigenous rights activism in Cochabamba called
"Caminando Nuestros Caminos de Siempre: Affirmando Nuestros Saberes."
(AFFIRMING OUR WISDOMS). The screening will be followed by music and a
Q&A on Bolivia, Puentes, indigenous activism in the Andes, mining
industry, agriculture, comsovision, language, agrarian revivals, and
post-coloniality.

The event is sponsored by: Presented by UK's Appalachian Research
Community and co-sponsoredby Latin American Studies, Appalachian
Studies, Education Policy & Evaluation, Geography Via Film,
Appalachian Center, Sustainable Agriculture Program, and Political
Ecology Working Group.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the following EPE students for their recent success at the MWERA Conference:

Travis McDearmon
Nikki Knutson
Dana Malone
Leslie Sweeney
DeShana Collett
Letao Sun
Kim Chaffer
Kate Shirley Akers

Additional congratulations are in order for EPE alumni, Jessica Cunningham and Madison Gates. Dr. Bradley and Dr. Hutchens represented the department's faculty. Conference papers may be viewed at http://uky.edu/~kdbrad2 (under current projects, MWERA 2010)

Global KY

Global KY- The most recent issue of UK's quarterly newsletter on international activities is now available at:
http://www.uky.edu/IntlAffairs/globalky/newsletter/Fall2010.pdf

Summer Course Announcement

EDP 605- Special Counseling Techniques

Special section for students who are NOT counseling psych majors (less professional certification discussion and more general methods of counseling). Recommended for students interested in student and academic affairs in higher education.

This course will be offered during the last four weeks of the Summer 2 (8wk) session.  For further details, refer to MyUK when the Summer 2 course offering becomes available, or contact Dr. Sharon Rostosky at s.rostosky@uky.edu

Gender & Women’s Studies Department Spring 2011 Course Offerings

GWS 595-001 (same as AAS 400-001): Hard Bodies and Weak Bodies in the New World:
Construction of Masculinity in Caribbean Literature/Discourse: “The harder they come, the
harder they fall one and all.” This course examines how Caribbean literature/discourse uses
sexual imagery of "hard and weak" bodies to affirm a West-Indian national identity in the face of
cultural imperialism. Students will explore the masculinist literary treatment that contemporary
male authors from the Caribbean have devised to respond to the Western feminization of their
countries. Often, their writings underline the masculine and the heterosexual characteristic of their
national identity. Students will study this construction of masculinity in various former colonies of
England, Spain and France. Colonialism and postcolonialism, cultural movements such as
Negritude, Antillanité and Créolité as well as the appropriation of Victorian discourses of
manhood and nationhood, will also be discussed. Instructor: Jacqueline Couti, MW 5:00-
6:15pm. This course will count toward requirements for the Graduate Certificate and other
degrees as appropriate.

GWS 595-401 Issues in GWS: Women and Film-Motherhood: Motherhood is not just the
second oldest profession (in the words of the genius Erma Bombeck); culturally speaking, it is the
culmination of all female experience and a major consideration in movies by and about women.
Films under consideration for our study include: Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945), Imitation of
Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988),
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, 1991),
Indochine (Regis Wargnier, 1992), The Joy Luck Club (Ang Lee, 1993), Juno (Jason Reitman,
2007), The Secret Life of Bees (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008), and The Kids Are All Right (Lisa
Cholodenko, 2010). Students will write two papers, one shorter (5-6 pages) and one longer (10-
12 pages). In addition, a short presentation, class participation, and peer review will figure
prominently in the course. Instructor: Jan Oaks, W 5:30-8:00pm. This course will count
toward requirements for the Graduate Certificate and other degrees as appropriate.

GWS 650-401 Feminist Theory: In this course, we explore the complex and contradictory
discourses that fall within the broad category of “feminist theory.” This is an advanced readings
course in Gender & Women's Studies, aimed at familiarizing you with feminist analyses: feminist
conceptualizations of the notion of gender and the construction of the feminine, the salience of
political / social structures in understanding inequities, and the ways in which frameworks like law,
science, sex and popular culture help one think through these debates. Mainly, we will be reading
a selection of core theoretical essays, examining the historical development of theories, their
political connotations, and their analytical strengths and weaknesses. Alongside this, we will also
evaluate the theories by exploring some ethnographic and journalistic and film texts. The
objectives are for you to become comfortable with identifying and applying these theoretical
approaches to a wide range of materials, to recognize the diversity among feminist theorists, to
critique and reformulate these arguments thoroughly, and to develop an understanding of the
ways in which this work can be useful to your particular research interests. Instructor: Srimati
Basu, M 5:30-8:00pm. This course will count toward requirements for the Graduate
Certificate and other degrees as appropriate.

GWS 690-001 Graduate Research in Gender and Women’s Studies: Independent Study:
This course requires students to work out a project with GWS affiliated faculty and fill out the
necessary independent study contract. Prior to enrollment in the course, the student and faculty
need to sign the contract and submit it to the GWS office. Contracts can be obtained on the GWS
webpage (www.as.uky.edu/gws) or at the GWS office, 112 Breckinridge Hall. Instructor: Patricia
Cooper. This course will count toward requirements for the Graduate Certificate and other
degrees as appropriate.

GRADUATE ELECTIVES

EPE 773 Global Education and Popular Culture: This seminar will consider the convergence of
popular culture, mass media, consumerism, globalization, education, and neo-liberal pedagogies
for makeover, self-governance, assimilation, mobility, and self-enterprise. We will examine how
popular culture and media pedagogies help to shape gendered identities, otherness, collectivities,
and desires. It will also explore the impacts of these forces on formal educational and practices,
self-help and informal educational spaces, teaching and life-long learning and peer cultures. This
course will highlight the production, consumption, and diffusion of various forms of popular culture
including films, television programming including Reality TV shows, magazines, toys, and the
internet. We will analyze the ways these forms of popular culture mediate femininities,
masculinities, class, ethnicities, race, sexualities, distinction, citizenship and belonging,
embodiment, empowerment, self-enterprise and makeover, consumerism, and celebrity. The
objectives of this course include enhancing our understandings of transnational patterns of
gendered education, normalization, cultural flows and diffusion, and technologies of
governmentality, as well as the consumption and reception of popular culture and media
pedagogies. Multidisciplinary readings will draw from education, cultural studies, gender studies,
media studies, and other fields of inquiry. Instructor: Karen Tice, M 7:00-9:30. This course will
count toward requirements for the Graduate Certificate and other degrees as appropriate.

GEO 712: International Political Economy and Ethnographic Imagination: Fetishization
represents an identification with commodities and commoditization – including the body and
social relations – as a reflection of exchange relations that erase and social relations of distinction
attached to gender, race, and class. This course will depart from Marx’s bemusement at
fetishism's ‘social hieroglyphics’ to examine performativity, alienation, and other social processes
that play a role in the shaping of subjectivities. After a review of political economy classics
including Marx's Capital, Foucault's Birth of the Clinic, and Benjamin's Paris, we will explore
fetishization, alienation, and difference via ethnographic readings such as Karaoke Fascism
(Monique Skidmore), Secretaries Talk (Rosemary Pringle), Fast Food, Fast Talk (Robin Leidner),
Fraternal Capital (Sharad Chari), and Companion Species (Donna Haraway) among others. As
the inclusion of Haraway indicates, a significant portion of the course will be given over to
readings on nature-society relations that will examine our embodied natures through the optics
noted above. Instructor: Tad Mutersbaugh, Meeting dates/times TBA. This course will
count toward requirements for the Graduate Certificate and other degrees as appropriate.

Student Affairs Opportunity

The University of Memphis invites applications for the position of Director, Student Affairs Learning and Assessment. The person in this position generates and supervises student learning objectives; oversees and executes research pertaining to division learning, assessment, and retention efforts; prepares formal reports and communicates findings; and consults with and advises the division on other assessment needs. The position has overall responsibility for all University commencements, the Honors Assembly, and New Student Convocation. This position is also responsible for identifying and developing professional development opportunities for Student Affairs staff. The person in this position serves on various committees and oversees projects as assigned. This position supervises the Coordinator of Commencement & Student Affairs Special Events along with an Administrative Assistant, and the position reports to the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs/Student Development.

The university is looking for a candidate who has a Master's degree and five years experience in higher education or an equivalent combination of related education and experience. The successful candidate will have the ability to design, implement and coordinate assessment efforts; demonstrate superior written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; be a resourceful problem solver; and have the ability to plan and execute large events. Applicants must apply online at https://workforum.memphis.edu/, and will be required to upload a resume, cover letter and a list of five references with names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Applications are being received through November 1, 2010.

The Memphis metropolitan area is a growing, vibrant community with many exciting opportunities and facets. The University is settled in an eastern residential area of the city, offering convenient accessibility and pleasant surroundings. Recently completed building projects include a new University Center, a new Living Learning Residence Hall, and the move of the Law School to downtown Memphis. The university has a diverse student body of nearly 23,000 students, housing 2,500 in residence halls.

For additional information about the position please contact the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at sblsdell@memphis.edu or 901-678-5426. For more information about the University of Memphis division of Student Affairs, please visit http://memphis.edu/studentaffairs.

The University of Memphis, a Tennessee Board of Regents Institution, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We urge all qualified applicants to apply for this position. Appointment will be based on qualifications as they relate to position requirements without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability or veteran status.

Edward F. Prichard Lecture

UK Libraries and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History would like to invite you to attend the 27th Edward F. Prichard Lecture with Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome, on Tuesday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m. in the auditorium, William T. Young Library. A reception will follow the program.

Professor Portelli is professor of American Literature at the University of Rome. His most recent book, They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History, is based on more than 30 years of interviews with 150 Harlan County men and women who tell the story of their region from pioneer times, through the dramatic mining strikes of the 1930s and 1970s, up to the present.

For further information, visit

CPAK Careers in Student Affair Conference--Oct. 30th (Saturday)

The College Personnel Association of Kentucky (CPAK) is hosting a Careers in Student Affairs Conference on October 30th (Saturday) here at UK.  
Registration information is available at: http://cpak.org/career/index.html

Because of some recent financial support, the cost of attending is now only $10, which will include a light breakfast and lunch as well.

The one-day event will be a great opportunity for undergraduate students to learn more about graduate programs in higher education and student affairs at institutions in Kentucky and around the region and country.

Graduate students interested in resume writing and placement interviews at conferences such as ACPA or interested in pursuing further study and wanting to learn more about doctoral programs will also find value in attending.

Student affairs and higher education professionals and faculty members will be there to present and answer questions and interact with attendees.  Please spread the word about the conference (feel free to share this announcement) and consider attending!

You may contact Neal Hutchens (neal.hutchens@uky.edu) if you have any questions.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Center for Poverty Research seminar 10/22

UK's Center for Poverty Research is pleased to welcome
 Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach 
Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Human Development and Faculty Fellow, with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
   
Friday, October 22, from 1-2:30 PM
Carol Martin Gatton Business and Economics Building 
Room 213



Friday, October 15, 2010

Kudos!

Congratulations to Travis McDearmon (SHED) on the recent publication of his article, "What's in it for me: A qualitative look into the mindset of young alumni non-donors," in the International Journal of Educational Advancement.  You can read it online here if you use your UK account to access the journal.

And good luck to all the EPEers heading to the Midwest AERA conference next week!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Dept. of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology presents...

Renowned Social Psychologist
Dr. Claude Steele
Provost, Columbia University, New York

Contact Tammy Arnold for further information, or to RSVP.

College of Ed Merchandise


The Dean's office is discontinuing the on-site sale of College of Education merchandise. Select quantities of discounted COE merchandise are available there for sale. Visit 103 Dickey Hall for more information.

Woodson Lecture Series


UK's African American Studies and Research Program
Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series
presents

"Your Average Nigga: A Performance"

October 21, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 PM
Lucille C. Little Black Box Theater
Fine Arts Building, Room 102

"Vershawn Ashanti Young is a performance artist and scholar. His one man show is adapted from his monograph, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Wayne State UP 2007). He is also Editor of From Bourgeois To Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (forthcoming, Wayne State 2011) and Co-Editor of Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance (forthcoming NCTE 2011). He is an Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky." 

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Le Datta Grimes at 257-0187 or aasrp@uky.edu

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Lecture on "Consumption Value of Postsecondary Education"

The Center for Poverty Research is pleased to welcome 
Brian Jacob (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bajacob/ ), 
Professor of Education Policy, Economics 
and Director of the Center on Local, State and Urban Policy 
at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 
Seminar Series speaker 
Friday, October 15,
1:30-3 p.m., in Gatton Business & Economics Room 313.

The paper he will present is titled The Consumption Value of Postsecondary
Education. The paper will be available early next week for download at
http://www.ukcpr.org/Seminars.aspx. Paper copies will be available in the Economics
Department mailroom (third floor of Gatton) by Wednesday, October 13. Copies will
also be available at the seminar.
 

Spring Teaching Position in EPE

EPE301 Teaching Assistant

Hard to believe we're thinking about Spring semester already!  There is an opening for a teaching assistant in EPE301 Education and American Culture this spring (pending continuation of funding).  If interested, please contact Dr. Reed for more information.

Islam in China

 
Islam in China:  Past and Present

Thursday, October 21, 2010

5:00 to 6:30 pm

UK Student Center Room 230

Speaker: Professor Yang Zhongdong

Professor Yang is from Xinjiang University's School of Humanities. He is currently a
visiting scholar at the University of Southern California (USC). Born in Urumqi, the
capital of the Xinjiang Province, Professor Yang is a Hui, a Muslim ethnic minority.
As a scholar in Hui Studies, Professor Yang emphasizes the importance of the
ethnological discipline in his research. His current research at USC involves
comparing how religion and ethnicity shape the identity of Muslim minorities in the
U.S. and China.

Free and open to the public

For more information email sdarrat@uky.edu or call 859-257-7037


Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Division of Russian and Eastern Studies
Islamic Studies Program
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center and the International Studies Program at UK

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Two Reminders--EPE Student Group Planning Lunch (Oct. 11th); Careers in Student Affairs Conference

The EPE Student Group will be having a lunch planning meeting on Oct. 11th (Monday) at 11:30 at Mellow Mushroom.  If you are able to attend, please respond to either Nikki Knutson (nmknut2@email.uky.edu) or Kate Akers (Kathryn.Akers@uky.edu) to let one of them know.
The College Personnel Association of Kentucky (CPAK) is sponsoring a Careers in Student Affairs Conference on Oct. 30th (Saturday) at UK.  If you know of undergraduate students who might be interested in the conference, please encourage them to attend.  Information about the conference can be found at the CPAK website:  http://cpak.org/career/index.html

Friday, October 8, 2010

Bale Boone Symposium on the Humanities


The Gaines Center for the Humanities presents the 2010 Bale Boone Symposium on the Humanities:

Art, Ownership & Cultural Policy

All events are free and open to the public.  Complete schedule posted at Kudos and at The Gaines Center for the Humanities.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer


The American Cancer Society's Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will take place on Sunday, October 24 on campus near Commonwealth Stadium with a rolling start 2pm-4pm. If you are interested in participating, please contact Amanda Dalton at amanda.dalton@uky.edu. There is no registration fee and no limit to the number of people that can join you! Please join the Lexington community make a difference, make history, and make strides in the fight against breast cancer.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Guest Speaker

Please join us for a lively discussion about the formation of the United Negro College Fund and other issues affecting Historically Black Colleges and Universities.


Guest Speaker: Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Higher Education Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund

Friday, October 8 12 noon- 1:00
Taylor Education Building Room 245

Dr. Gasman is an historian of higher education. Her work explores issues pertaining to philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving.

Dr. Gasman’s most recent book is Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). She has also written (with Patrick J. Gilpin) Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow (SUNY Press, 2003), (with Sibby Anderson-Thompkins) Supporting Alma Mater: Successful Strategies for Securing Funds from Black College Alumni (CASE Books, 2003), and (with Katherine Sedgwick) Uplifting a People: African American Philanthropy and Education (Peter Lang, 2005). In addition to these works, Dr. Gasman is the editor (with Benjamin Baez and Caroline Sotello Turner) of Understanding Minority Serving Institutions (SUNY Press, 2008) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos (Palgrave Press, 2009) with Christopher Tudico.

Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Workshop

UK's Martin School of Public Policy & Administration presents
Dr. Henry Braun
Lynch School of Education
Boston College
"The landscape of value-added analysis: A NRC report and some personal reflections"
October 13, 2010 from 3-4 PM
West End Board Room
18th floor of Patterson Office Tower

From the Graduate School

1) Summer Study Abroad Information Session
Wednesday, October 6th – 5-6 p.m.
Center Theater of the UK Student Center
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2) Boren Scholarship and Fellowship Information Session and Drop-in Q & A
Thursday, October 7

Boren Awards representative Michael Saffle will visit UK to discuss the Boren Scholarship and Fellowship opportunities with interested students.

11 am to Noon – Drop-in Q & A: Stop by to ask Mr. Saffle questions about the Boren Awards. You are welcome to drop in between 11 and noon if you cannot make it to the noon info session, or you are welcome to come to both.
Noon – 1 pm – Information Session: Mr. Saffle will give an informational presentation about the Boren awards, followed by a Q & A session.
Both events will take place in Room 205 of the UK Student Center.

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships support intensive study of languages and cultures deemed critical to U.S. national security. http://www.borenawards.org/ Students at every level (1st year through graduating senior and graduate students) in any discipline are eligible to apply; the scholarship is intended for those who are strongly interested in national security and there is a 1-year post-graduation service commitment for awardees (work at least 1 year for any FedGov department related to Nat’l security in some capacity). For a list of languages you may study using a Boren award, including when Spanish or French is a permissible language, see http://bit.ly/bWeImD.

The campus deadline for Boren Scholarship applications is January 18, 2011.
There is no campus deadline for Boren Fellowship applications. Fellowship applicants must observe the Boren Awards deadline of February 1, 2011.
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3) Graduate Student Workshops

Identifying and Helping Students in Difficulty
with Felito Aldarondo and Di Sobel, UK Counseling Center, and Lee Edgerton, Academic Ombud Office
Monday, Oct. 11, at 6:00 p.m. in Whitehall Classroom Building, Room 234 (note slight change in time)

Instructors frequently encounter students who are dealing with personal, academic, or social difficulties
and who may be candidates for intervention, both for their own good and the good of the learning environment. This workshop will help participants identify students in difficulty and will offer strategies for effectively engaging them and, if needed, referring them. The discussion will also include strategies for handling crisis situations of various kinds.
To register for this workshop, please click here: http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/Workshops/Fall10/WorkingSeries.html

College Pedagogy II: Reviewing Management Tools and Responding to Incivility
with Kathryn Cunningham, The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
Thursday, Oct. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in White Hall Classroom Building, Room 234
In this session, after a brief presentation about dealing with incivility in the classroom, attendees will report their management techniques implementation experiences to small groups (how did it go? what are insights to share?). The small groups will analyze why technique implementation went the way it did. (This is meant to be a companion workshop for "College Pedagogy I" on Oct. 4. However, if you missed Part I, you may still attend this session.)
To register for this workshop, please click here: http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/Workshops/Fall10/WorkingSeries.html
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4) Insights into UK Athletics forum featuring UK Men’s Basketball Coach John Calipari
Tuesday, October 12th, 3:30 p.m.
White Hall Classroom Building Room 106
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5) African American Studies and Research Program Fall Events


Fall 2010 Dialogues in Race Film Series: Sisters in the Struggle
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Martin Luther King Cultural Center (Student Center)
October 14: Audrey Grevious
November 18: Anne Braden
December 2: Sen. Georgia Powers
Sponsored by the African American Studies and Research Program present
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6) 2011 Nordic Research Opportunity
Deadline: Thursday, January 14, 2011

The NSF, the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), the Academy of Finland, the Danish National Research Foundation and the Swedish Research Council will support, on a competitive basis, research visits of 2-12 months or 3-12 months (country-specific) in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden (new this year).

Please read the announcement (Dear Colleague Letter) on the NSF Website at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10073/nsf10073.jsp?org=DUE (also available as a link on the GRFP page, www.nsf.gov/grfp). The 2011 Supplement Request Deadline is January 14, 2011. Announcement of supplement awards will be made in early April, 2011.
If you have any questions after reading the Dear Colleague Letter, please contact Gisele Muller-Parker, e-mail: gtmuller@nsf.gov