Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice
Thurs, Sept 16, 10:30am-12:00pm
Persimmon Room IMU
In this workshop for graduate students, Katie Kearns and Tyler Christensen share strategies to reflect on teaching as well as information about the qualities of effective statements of teaching philosophy. Participants read and analyze several statements and receive reflection guides for getting started.
Registration is not required. Direct any questions about this event to teaching@indiana.edu or 855-9023. More information about our services and events can be seen at http://www.iub.edu/~teaching.
Friday, September 10, 2010
GPSO "Even Exchange" Course Change Proposal Now In Action
For graduate students needing to change a course in the second week of classes, life just got easier.
A proposal initiated by the Graduate and Professional Students Organization, dubbed the “even exchange” policy, was endorsed by the Bloomington Faculty Council in April, 2009, and approved by the Provost and VPCFO. After a challenging modification to the SIS tuition calculation program, the more generous course change policy is now in place.
Stating it in its most simplified form, it permits a graduate student (not in a program with a flat fee) to exchange one class for another of equal credit hours without any net tuition charge as long as the dropped and added classes are submitted in the same transaction during the second week of classes. Students will be charged the standard $23 Late Schedule Change Fee, and the dropped course will still carry a W in the academic record. This is a modification to financial policy only. As with most of our policies, however, there are a few little requirements that need to be met.
Read the full policy: http://bursar.indiana.edu/drop_add.php#even
A proposal initiated by the Graduate and Professional Students Organization, dubbed the “even exchange” policy, was endorsed by the Bloomington Faculty Council in April, 2009, and approved by the Provost and VPCFO. After a challenging modification to the SIS tuition calculation program, the more generous course change policy is now in place.
Stating it in its most simplified form, it permits a graduate student (not in a program with a flat fee) to exchange one class for another of equal credit hours without any net tuition charge as long as the dropped and added classes are submitted in the same transaction during the second week of classes. Students will be charged the standard $23 Late Schedule Change Fee, and the dropped course will still carry a W in the academic record. This is a modification to financial policy only. As with most of our policies, however, there are a few little requirements that need to be met.
Read the full policy: http://bursar.indiana.edu/drop_add.php#even
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Message from the Grad Mental Health Working Group
Greetings IU Graduate Students,
I hope each of you are well rested from the summer break as a new semester is upon us. I want to bring to your attention an opportunity to join a working group that addresses mental health issues amongst our graduate student population at IU. Although still in the early stages of its development, the Mental Health Working Group has a well-rounded agenda aimed at:
We hope you are enthusiastic about improving graduate student mental health at Indiana University and encourage all interested students to respond.
Time: 5:00-6:30
Place: SISR 100
Contact Information: latouche.ray@gmail.com
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Rachel La Touche
Chair - Mental Health Working Group
I hope each of you are well rested from the summer break as a new semester is upon us. I want to bring to your attention an opportunity to join a working group that addresses mental health issues amongst our graduate student population at IU. Although still in the early stages of its development, the Mental Health Working Group has a well-rounded agenda aimed at:
- Cataloguing current mental health resources that target graduate students' needs at IU and in Bloomington as a whole
- Identifying limitations and brainstorming solutions/strategies for rectifying these deficiencies
- Polling graduate students about what mental health needs are most pressing at IU
We hope you are enthusiastic about improving graduate student mental health at Indiana University and encourage all interested students to respond.
Mental Health Working Group Meeting
Date: September 23, 2010Time: 5:00-6:30
Place: SISR 100
Contact Information: latouche.ray@gmail.com
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Rachel La Touche
Chair - Mental Health Working Group
The Graduate Student Information Fair: Orienting new students to IU
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| New graduate students have the opportunity to find out more about academic, student life and community resources through the "Get Oriented" Graduate Student Information Fair. |
On August 26, 2010, new graduate students were invited to the Graduate Student Information Fair at the Main Library -- an event to bring together campus resources and communities of interest.
“It’s the heart of orientation week,” said Peter Thoresen, Operations Coordinator for the Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO), “because it begins community building right away.”
“Graduate school can be isolating. It’s important for graduate students to meet students in other departments, not only for interdisciplinary networking, but also to engaging students in the greater IUB commmunity,” Thoresen said.
The GPSO also offers to visit departmental orientations and present on community graduate resources. The program began two years ago, Thorenson said, and more than 50 departments took them up on the offer this year.
“Orientation activities provide a great annual opportunity for departments to partner with UGS, the GPSO, and the university libraries.”
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
IU Represented at NASA Education Stakeholders' Summit
Assistant Dean for the University Graduate School, Dr. Yolanda Treviño, will be representing IU as a panelist and a regional specialist at the NASA Education Stakeholders' Summit, “An Innovative Solution To Support the STEM Workforce of Tomorrow,” Sept 13-15, 2010, in Chantilly, VA.
She is one of four speakers on the Institutional Solutions: Maximizing Access to Available Human and Fiscal Resources Panel. This panel will present perspectives from NASA, other Federal Agencies, Industry, Non-Profits and Academia on strategies to maximize access to human and fiscal resources to attract, retain and prepare STEM Talent from college to career. The other three panelists are from the National Science Foundation, MIT and Southern Florida.
She is a Regional Specialist for the Institute for Broadening Participation "Building the STEM Workforce: Pathways for Recruitment, Retention, and Career Development" project supports NASA's OSSI initiative. Through this project, IBP leads a series of recruitment and retention efforts with a national network of colleges and universities along with three additional organizations with similar projects. The OSSI initiative involves streamlining the application and selection process for NASA funded educational opportunities such as scholarships, internships, and fellowships, with an overall goal of strengthening the STEM workforce and increasing the number of students successfully pursuing degrees and careers in the sciences. For more information, visit: http://www.ibparticipation.org/projects.asp?sort=NASAREG
She is the director for the IU Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (a National Science Foundation grant program which develops and implements innovative programs that promote the academic success of graduate students, with a special interest in activities designed to advance under-represented minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics degree programs); is responsible for diversity-building fellowships; and, serves as the ombudsperson for the Graduate and Professional Student Organization, the official graduate student government for IU.
She is one of four speakers on the Institutional Solutions: Maximizing Access to Available Human and Fiscal Resources Panel. This panel will present perspectives from NASA, other Federal Agencies, Industry, Non-Profits and Academia on strategies to maximize access to human and fiscal resources to attract, retain and prepare STEM Talent from college to career. The other three panelists are from the National Science Foundation, MIT and Southern Florida.
She is a Regional Specialist for the Institute for Broadening Participation "Building the STEM Workforce: Pathways for Recruitment, Retention, and Career Development" project supports NASA's OSSI initiative. Through this project, IBP leads a series of recruitment and retention efforts with a national network of colleges and universities along with three additional organizations with similar projects. The OSSI initiative involves streamlining the application and selection process for NASA funded educational opportunities such as scholarships, internships, and fellowships, with an overall goal of strengthening the STEM workforce and increasing the number of students successfully pursuing degrees and careers in the sciences. For more information, visit: http://www.ibparticipation.org/projects.asp?sort=NASAREG
She is the director for the IU Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (a National Science Foundation grant program which develops and implements innovative programs that promote the academic success of graduate students, with a special interest in activities designed to advance under-represented minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics degree programs); is responsible for diversity-building fellowships; and, serves as the ombudsperson for the Graduate and Professional Student Organization, the official graduate student government for IU.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Teaching Strategies of Award-Winning Associate Instructors
Teaching Strategies of Award-Winning Associate Instructors
Thurs, Sept 2, 10:30am-12:00pm
Persimmon Room IMU
Graduate students from sciences, social sciences, and languages who have been recognized for their teaching will share their instructional strategies and lessons they learned in their instructional roles. They will also field participant questions about classroom management, lesson planning, and course design.
Registration is not required. Questions about this event: email teaching@indiana.edu or call 812/855-9023.
Thurs, Sept 2, 10:30am-12:00pm
Persimmon Room IMU
Graduate students from sciences, social sciences, and languages who have been recognized for their teaching will share their instructional strategies and lessons they learned in their instructional roles. They will also field participant questions about classroom management, lesson planning, and course design.
Registration is not required. Questions about this event: email teaching@indiana.edu or call 812/855-9023.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale
Hoosier to Hoosier is a partnership between the United Way of Monroe County, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, the City of Bloomington, IU Athletics, the IU Office of Sustainability, and IU Residential Programs and Services.
The sale is a reuse program that aims to 1) to divert reusable items generated during the student move-out from the landfill, 2) to prevent additional resource consumption by selling collected items to students and community members in order to 3) raise funds for local charities and other organizations.
The program allows students to donate reusable items, and also help out their neighbors in need at the same time. Aside from a small percentage that will be set aside for administrative costs associated with the second H2H next year, all proceeds from the sale will benefit United Way and Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County.
• H2H website: www.indiana.edu/~h2h
• Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-Indiana/Indiana-University-Hoosier-to-Hoosier/318795747483
• Press release: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15230.html?emailID=15230
• Volunteer link: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2zmif994e4d9050
The sale is a reuse program that aims to 1) to divert reusable items generated during the student move-out from the landfill, 2) to prevent additional resource consumption by selling collected items to students and community members in order to 3) raise funds for local charities and other organizations.
The program allows students to donate reusable items, and also help out their neighbors in need at the same time. Aside from a small percentage that will be set aside for administrative costs associated with the second H2H next year, all proceeds from the sale will benefit United Way and Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County.
• H2H website: www.indiana.edu/~h2h
• Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-Indiana/Indiana-University-Hoosier-to-Hoosier/318795747483
• Press release: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15230.html?emailID=15230
• Volunteer link: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2zmif994e4d9050
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