Structured Groups for the Writing Process, specifically for graduate students whose primary language is not English. The support group will review steps for the writing process, sentence skills and basic evaluation of student's writing.
More about:Writing Process Support Groups for Spring Semester
The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, and helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education.
More about:Sloan-C January/February Online Workshops Open for Registration
GSG Assembly elections are still several months away, but if your department is missing one or more of its representatives, you can do something about it now!
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"University officials are considering the possibility of third-party billing for the University Health Center that would allow students to finance their visits to the center through their private health insurance coverage, causing some to question how the proposal could impact insurance-less students." Read the full article over at the Diamondback.
More about:Students worry change in billing may hurt uninsured
"Two graduate students alleged a recent report arguing graduate assistants shouldn't be allowed to unionize was marred by an anti-labor bias and distorted the views of members of a committee created to resolve the issue." Read the full article at the DiamondbackMore about:Graduate students contend state report had anti-labor bias
"Tired of dealing with inaccessible buildings, overworked counselors and an administration disabled students say is too slow in addressing their grievances, students are banding together to create a group they say will advocate on behalf of the university's disabled population." Read the full article at the DiamondbackMore about:Disabled students form union for lobbying, social events
"In an effort to make the university more family-friendly, the University Senate overwhelmingly approved a plan to allow tenured and tenure-track faculty to assume part-time positions while raising young children at their meeting yesterday." Read the full article at the DiamondbackMore about:University Senate approves family-friendly policy
Renee Baird Snyder, PhD., the coordinator for Course Evaluations at the University of Maryland, talked with the Graduate Student Government about the online course evaluation review process.
More about:New Functionality in Course Evaluation Reporting
