ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congratulations, CED!
The Department of Counseling and Educational Development has been named the #2 Graduate Counseling Program in the country by U.S. News and World Report for the second year in a row!
Linda Arnold Carlisle Distinguished Excellence Professorship in Women’s and Gender Studies
Deadline extended to 3/31
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites applications for a professorship in Women’s and Gender Studies. The professorship will be awarded for a period of four academic years beginning in August 2016. Candidates must be full professors at UNCG when they take up the appointment. Candidates whose promotion to full professor is pending must supply their letter from the UNCG Board of Trustees confirming their promotion. Final appointment to the professorship for candidates undergoing promotion review is contingent upon promotion approval at all levels (i.e., the UNC Board of Governors).
Recommendation of a candidate for the professorship will be made by the Dean, in consultation with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, to the Provost, who with the Chancellor will recommend appointment by the University’s Board of Trustees.
The successful candidate will normally be selected from faculty members who have contributed to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Candidates in all disciplines and departments are invited to apply.
Criteria to be used in recommending and appointing the candidate to the professorship include the following:
- the applicant’s scholarly or creative achievement related to women or gender issues
- importance of the work
- potential to enhance the interdisciplinary field of women’s and gender studies, specifically the WGS program at UNCG and its place in the community
The professor is expected to engage both with the WGS program and the broader community through activities such as symposia, programs, community-engaged scholarship or public exhibitions or performances. A public presentation by the professor must be an integral part of each year’s work (e.g., colloquium, lecture, presentation of essays or creative work in progress). The professor will also be asked, as funds are available, to invite annually to campus a nationally recognized speaker whose work relates to the professor’s scholarly or creative activity. This visiting scholar is expected to participate in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program through lectures, seminars, performances or other similar activities.
The professor will receive a salary supplement of $5000 annually, and research support of $12,000 per year will be made available to support the professor’s work. Candidates are asked to specify a two-year budget that has been approved by the appropriate department head or dean as part of the application process. At the end of two years a budget for the final two years will be required. The budget may include such items as release time, research assistance, books, equipment and supplies, and travel. Application forms are available on line at http://wgs.uncg.edu.
The deadline for receipt of completed applications is Wednesday, March 31, 2016. Please send your application to Isabell Moore and Sarah Hamrick, Women’s and Gender Studies Program Administrators (wgs@uncg.edu). Questions may be addressed to Karen L. Kilcup, Committee Chair (klkilcup@uncg.edu).
UNCG Young Writers’ Camp
Registration deadline: June 1, 2016
Registration before April 1, 2016 is $225.00
Registration on or after April 1, 2016 is $250.00.
We will celebrate students’ published work at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro on the evening of Friday, July 22.
Tuition includes all materials, snacks, drinks, and a camp T-shirt.
For more information and registration form, please visit www.youngwriterscampuncg.com
New CED Summer Elective: CED 688: Social Justice Advocacy in the Community
In case your summer plans are changing and you’d like to consider joining us, we have some great learning experiences planned! We will be partnering with an immigrant serving community agency in order to observe their functions and gather information from clients and staff as part of a culturally-informed needs assessment. We will also have guest speakers and written/video narratives in order to immerse ourselves in the experiences of newcomers to our country and consider what advocacy skills we could learn in order to be of assistance. We’d love to include you – feel free to ask any of us if you have questions!
UPCOMING EVENTS
“Understanding Muslim Communities at Colleges in Greensboro through Photovoice” Exhibit and Dinner
Friday, March 18 at 5 p.m.
Peace/Salaam,
We hope this finds you well,
We want to invite you as our professors, administrators, staff, mentors, student organization leaders, or fellow PhD students to a special photo exhibit titled “Understanding Muslim communities at Colleges in Greensboro through Photovoice” and dinner on Friday, March 18th. The event will be at: Intercultural Engagement Office, and Meditation, Sharpe, and Joyner rooms at the Elliott University Center (EUC) at UNCG. This exhibit will feature submissions to a photovoice research project submitted by Muslim community, with majority being from UNCG, on college campuses in Greensboro, responding to prompts related to their experience of supports and barriers on campuses. This event is free! We have also invited many administrators, faculty, student organization leaders, media, and the Greensboro Muslim community. We are hoping that these photos provide a starting point for a larger conversation around the needs of Muslim community on the campuses.
Several UNCG doctoral students, at the School of Education, have been involved in this project, including Kelly Spencer, Jaimie Stickl, Hallie Sylvestro, and Ahmet Tanhan; and Master’s Program student Abdullah Almulim from Public Health Department. We have also worked very closely with our professors at the Public Health (Drs. Strack and Orsini) and Counseling Departments, the UNCG Muslim Student Association (MSA) board members, the Muslim Research Association (MRA) board members, many offices at UNCG, and many other volunteers from UNCG, local Muslim communities, and Zakat Foundation for the event.
You are welcome to bring a guest of your choosing. Please consider coming, and RSVP to Ahmet Tanhan (tanhanahmet3@gmail.com or a_tanhan@uncg.edu) by Wednesday March 15th. The event is open to invited ones and will be free!! We will not have any formal speeches; we want to create a space where we have a conversation to make campuses for more meaningful experiences for all!!
We will provide chicken biryani, rice, lentil soup, and dates for the dinner.
More information about the event if you wish to learn more:
The program is:
5:00 Muslims who want to pray Asr/Afternoon prayer and the ones who want to observe the prayer can meet in the Meditation room (Elliott University Center, UNCG)
5:15-6:15 Dinner
5:15-7:45 Photovoice exhibit
7:45: Muslims who want to pray Magrib/Evening prayer and the ones who want to observe the prayer can meet in the Meditation room.
We will not have any formal speeches. We want to create a space to see conversations around the photos and captions.
At this Photovoice event/project, you will be able to (1) taste some traditional delicious food (chicken biryani, lentil soup, rice, dates); (2) learn/share/hear what Muslim community experience both strengths and barriers through Photovoice that we used as a method. You will be able see and read about 200 photos and their captions/stories by Muslim communities at colleges in Greensboro, with most of the photos and caption being from UNCG; (3) create a space that we all as people (e.g., administrators, professors, students, counselors, community leaders) acknowledge the strengths and concerns of Muslim community so that we all together can strive for a more meaningful campus experience for all.
If you are interested in the design of our study: https://uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9tSehnCKyuGJ0Lb
The photos (Photovoice study) of the participants will be shared, after the event, on the following pages and groups:
1. https://www.facebook.com/WHAT-can-counselingcounselors-do-WITHFOR-Muslim-community-at-UNCG-HOW-1637544849852604/?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser
2. https://www.facebook.com/msauncg/
3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1630401400505244/
On behalf of the team, again, thanks a lot for your time and consideration,
Ahmet Tanhan
Counseling and Educational Department, UNCG
Yopp Distinguished Speaker Series in Mathematics Education: Dr. Paola Sztajn
Monday, March 21
The TEHE Mathematics Education Faculty are delighted to welcome Dr. Paola Sztajn to UNCG on Monday, March 21, 2016. She will give two talks as part of the Yopp Distinguished Speaker Series in Mathematics Education — a research talk (11 am – 12:30 pm) and a connecting-research-and-practice talk (5 – 6:30 pm). The afternoon talk is intended for the broader community so please invite interested educators from the community. Details about the talks are included in the flyer.
We hope that you will be able to join us for these events!
Vicki Jacobs, Kerri Richardson, and Holt Wilson
UNCG Global Engagement Faculty Learning Group
Tuesday, March 22 from 3-4 p.m. in the Faculty Center
Refreshments will be provided
Presentations:
Global Literacies in the 21st-Century U. S. Classroom
Professor Christian Moraru, UNCG, Dept. of English
Christian Moraru is Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in contemporary American fiction, critical theory, as well as comparative literature with emphasis on history of ideas, postmodernism, and the relations between globalism and culture. He is the author and editor of a number of books. His recent publications are the monographs Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (University of Michigan Press, 2011) and Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and essay collections such as Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (Columbia University Press / EEM Series, 2009) and The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (Northwestern University Press, 2015, with Amy J. Elias).
The Teaching of Literature in Post-Cold War Romania: Globalization and Its Challenges
Professor Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga Univ., Sibiu, Romania
Andrei Terian is a professor of Romanian literature in the Department of Romance Studies of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and a senior researcher with the G. Călinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy. His specialties are twentieth- and twenty-first century Romanian literature, cultural theory, the history of modern criticism, and comparative and world literature. He has published numerous essays in Romanian and international journals such as Slovo, CLCWeb – Comparative Literature and Culture, World Literature Studies, Interlitteraria, ALEA: Estudos Neolatinos, Primerjalna književnost, and Transylvania. His latest books include the monographs G. Călinescu: The Fifth Essence (2009) and Exporting Criticism: Theories, Contexts, Ideologies (2013), as well as the coedited reference series General Dictionary of the Romanian Literature (7 volumes, 2004-2009) and Chronology of Romanian Literary Life: 1944-1964 (10 volumes, 2010- 2013).
2016 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, April 5 at 9 a.m.
Please join us for the 2016 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards Ceremony to be held Tuesday, April 5th, at 9 a.m. in the EUC Auditorium. The ceremony will reflect the creativity, innovation and achievements of UNCG’s talented faculty and staff. Award recipients will be highlighted in short videos created by our own UNCG students.
University Service Awards recipients with 30, 35 and 40 years of service also will be recognized, and the following awards will be presented:
- UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Mary Settle Sharp Award for Teaching Excellence
- James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence
- Anna Maria Gove Award for Teaching Excellence
- Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards
- Holshouser Award for Public Service
- O. Max Gardner Award
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
- Research Excellence Awards
- Staff Excellence Awards
- Student Learning Enhancement Awards
- Thomas Undergraduate Research Award
To see past years’ recipients and videos, visit: http://web.uncg.edu/hrs/Employee_Recognition/Excellence_Awards
Please don’t miss this opportunity to recognize and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our colleagues. Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony.
SOE Research Awards
April 22 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. in SOEB 120
The Research Awards Ceremony this spring will be held on April 22, from 9-12 p.m. in Room 120 SOEB. The format will be similar to that of last year’s ceremony. We will have a video of people out in the community talking about the impact SOE researchers have made, three-minute thesis talks from the top graduate researcher from each department, as well as short presentations by last year’s faculty research award recipients, Dr. Laura Gonzales, Dr. Wayne Journell and Dr. Dale Schunk. The ceremony will conclude with the handing out of research awards for this year’s recipients.
Triad Teacher Researcher Conference
April 27 from 5:30-9 p.m.
For more information, visit our website: http://triadteacherresearcher.weebly.com/
2016 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
June 2-4
AAUW Greensboro is offering three scholarships to attend this year’s National Conference for College Women Student Leaders in June at the University of Maryland.
Please see the attached flyer for information about the scholarship and application process.
Also, here are two short videos about the conference:
Here’s one about lessons learned from the 2015 NCCWSL Women of Distinction:
TECHNOLOGY
WebEx Transition
UNC Greensboro has officially transitioned from the SLMS (video conferencing) Blackboard Collaborate to WebEx. You have the option to use Blackboard Collaborate until July 2016, but it is in the process of being phased out to WebEx. For more information about this transition, please read the UNCG ITS official announcement on their blog:
https://itsnews.uncg.edu/2016/03/14/webex-now-available-to-faculty-and-staff/
Upcoming Technology Training
- There are new times and sign ups for SOE Instructional Technology and Canvas Training for Spring 2016: http://goo.gl/forms/QGMEcwwo87
- This link has been added to the SOE Instructional Technology webpage under Training, Guides and Tutorials: http://intech.uncg.edu/guides-tutorials/
- A Google Calendar of workshop dates has been added to this page for convenience.
- One new session on Canvas Communication has been added, while we are also offering the same advanced Canvas sessions on Visuals and Multimedia, Assessment, Quizzes, SoftChalk, and Instructional Technology Tools. For an overview of Canvas, please email Samantha Harlow or sign up for individual training through this form. The form gives you options for workshops, individual tutorials, and/or self directed training.
6-Tech Tips: Protect Yourself Against Phishing
http://itsnews.uncg.edu/2013/12/16/6-tech-tips-protect-yourself-against-phishing/
Classroom Technology Support
Contact classroom technical support at 334-5207 for technical and training assistance in UNCG classrooms and conference rooms.
Easier Now to Schedule and Reserve a “Meet Me” Conference Line
http://itsnews.uncg.edu/2015/11/16/easier-now-to-schedule-and-reserve-a-meet-me-conference-line/
STUDENT/ALUMNI/FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Journal for Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs has published the first issue in its second volume, and it features an article by Anna Patton, a doctoral student in the Educational Studies, Cultural Foundations program within the Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Department. Anna’s article brings together ideas related to the field of student affairs, critical theory use, and academic capitalism. The article can be cited: Patton, A. L. (2015). From individual difference to political analysis: An emerging application of critical theory in student affairs. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 2(1), 48-61, and the full-text can be accessed online.
The list of “The Badass Ladies of Greensboro” – described as “powerful, groundbreaking, ambitious North Carolina women” – includes a CED alum, Laurelyn Dossett. Congrats, Laurelyn! So well deserved! We are so proud and so appreciate your talents and contributions!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/cancangso/the-badass-ladies-of-greensboro-21pkz
DEVELOPMENT UPDATES
We would like to thank the Sara Smith Self Foundation (Mr. Smith Self, Mr. Robert Shelton and Mr. Robert Edwards) for their gift of $50,000 in support of the SELF Design Studio. This is the second payment of a $250,000 pledge. We would also like to thank the Sara Smith Self Foundation for their gift of $25,000 to support the Luther Winborne Self Fellowship fund. This fund was established in 1997 and is awarded to doctoral students with need to complete their dissertation and course work.