5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION
INTE 2014
Paris – FRANCE
INTE 2014
Paris – FRANCE
25-27 June 2014
Month: December 2013
We are pleased to post the Community of Practice Developer position to start mid-January 2014 with UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT). This is a 12-20 hour/week position (adaptable to the successful candidate’s schedule), open to all graduate students at UBC. Please see attached job description for more details. CoP_JobDescription_Jan2014
The posting is open until noon Friday, Jan. 3rd, 2014. Graduate students interested in the position are asked to forward their applications to Linda Turner <linda.turner@ubc.ca>, Department Secretary, CTLT.
We are seeking as wide a pool of candidates as possible.Please forward this email to any graduate students you know who may be interested, particularly those with experience as facilitators, community developers, program planners, and/or experience working in the context of teaching and learning in higher education.
Best,
Jessica.
Dear Graduate Students,
Did you know that Graduate students make up 20% of the student body at UBC, numbering just over 10,000 graduate students at UBC Vancouver alone?
There’s a more than 50% chance that you agree or strongly agree that funding/financial issues cause you as a UBC graduate student stress or anxiety on a regular basis. Time to Completion for graduate studies programs is continually increasing at UBC and across Canada.
The GSS wants you to come out in support of our efforts to change these aspects of the graduate student experience at UBC. While we have been a priority for this UBC administration for a number of years, little has changed across the institution.
Come out on January 10th at 11am to Graduate Student Society’s Thea Koerner House on 225-6371 Crescent Rd. Let’s show the UBC Administration that Less Money and More Time isn’t a good or sustainable way to treat it’s hardworking and talented graduate student body. Stand and be counted! (Save the Date!)
GSS Elections:
– The Call for Nominations for the 2014-2015 GSS Executive Team is Now Open and will remain so until January 15th of 2014! Interested in making a difference in graduate student life at UBC as a GSS Executive? Find out more [here]!
GSS Social & Recreational:
– Class is in Session! Learn French, and “Fall in love” in our January GSS Art Class.
– Sign Up for your January Fitness Class! GSS is offering Bellydance, Pilates, Zumba and Yoga classes in January! Remember, it’s not a New Year’s Resolution if you commit before New Year’s (We nonetheless offer love and acceptance to Resolution makers) 
– Wheee!! let’s go Ski on Jan 19!
– The January Orientation Schedule is out and we need a few volunteers and welcoming folks to help! There are tickets in it for you for the New Term Party on January 24th! (save the date!)
Happy Holidays from us at the GSS! Here’s a holiday giggle with Jimmy Fallon! See you in 2014!!
Ngwatilo
Dear Students,
Three HMED search candidates have been shortlisted and they will be coming to UBC for presentations and interviews in late January. Dates are as follows:
Jan 21 (Tues) 8:15 to 3:30 pm and 22 (Wed) 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Roula Hawa
Jan 23 (Thu) 1 – 2 hours in the afternoon and 24 (Fri) 8:45 am and 3:30 pm Jacqui Gingras
Jan 27 (Mon) 1 – 2 hours in the afternoon and 28 (Tue) 8:45 am and 3:30 pm Kerry Renwick
They will all be staying in West Coast Suites. We look for three volunteer student hosts, one for each candidate.
Please let us know if you can help by sending your message to myself (Basia) with a copy to: samson.nashon@ubc.ca, and anna.ip@ubc.ca.
Student hosts will pick up the assigned candidate from West Coast Suites, walk them to Scarfe Building and take them to the various meeting places, chair the graduate student meeting and assist the candidates throughout the day. The student hosts will be invited to join lunch.
“Education for Revolution,” a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days and Cultural Logic has just been launched. Works & Days, published by the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, explores problems of cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, especially as they are impacted by the global economic crisis (http://www.worksanddays.net). Cultural Logic, which has connections to the Radical Caucus of MLA and the Marxist Literary Group, has been online since 1997 and is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal publishing essays, interviews, poetry, and reviews by writers working within the Marxist tradition (http://clogic.eserver.org). This is the second collaboration between the two journals.
Cultural Logic will be publishing an expanded, open access, version of this issue in the coming months. The expanded edition of the issue will include new articles addressing education for revolution in Greece, Turkey, and India.
Read Works & Days editor David B. Downing’s “Foreword to the Revolution” here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/ross/files/2013/12/WD-Front-pages.pdf
Works & Days + Cultural Logic
Education for Revolution
E. Wayne Ross & Rich Gibson (Editors)
Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships
Deadline: Monday, 3 February 2014
Amount: $9,000 – $11,000 (subject to change)
The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The value has recently been approximately $9,000 but is subject to change.
The Traveling Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in the United States or the United Kingdom in the areas of international relations or industrial relations (including the international or industrial relations aspects of law, history, politics and economics). Recently four scholarships of $11,000 each have been awarded annually, but the number and the amount is subject to change.
Further information is available on our website at
http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/mackenzie-king-memorial-scholarships
Dear Graduate Students,
The OGPR is pleased to announce the availability of the 2013-2014 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant funding initiative. The grant is not designed to be a salary grant. The principal goal of this initiative is to reimburse UBCV Faculty of Education graduate students for the financial costs of conducting research projects necessary for the completion of their degree and is designed to cover your research or project expenses only. The award values are up to $1,000 to successful graduate students (Magistral and Doctoral).
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
Graduate students cannot receive this award more than once during a given degree program.
Over the past 3 years there have been an average number of 37 applications to this initiative and an average of 12 were funded. These awards were successful based on the following: a) a strong student statement regarding their Research Proposal and a fully justified Budget; b) the student C.V. and, c) a high grade point average.
Also, please note that although the signature of your Supervisor is not required on the application form, they are still required to read and check off that they fully support your application to this grant.
For more information, as well as the Application Form, the Terms of Reference & Instructions, Graduate Student CV, a Sample Graduate Student CV as well as the General UBC Policies on Reimbursement and Payment for Work and other related materials, please go to the following website: http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/grad/funding/opportunities/
Application Deadline to OGPR: 4:00pm, Monday, February 17, 2014.
Christine Wallsworth
UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #651
December 13, 2013
The Office of Graduate Programs and Research | Faculty of Education | UBC Vancouver
For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971. Please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash for all new and current NewsFlash items. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca.
Working the Ruins of Educational Policy: Post-Structuralism for a Complex World
Referencing the groundbreaking and continually relevant Working the Ruins: Feminist Poststructural Theory and Methods in Education (1999, St. Pierre & Pillow, Eds.), this Public Lecture/panel discussion will explore the ways in which education policy can be viewed through poststructural policy analysis. Detailed information can be found at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/poststructural/public-lecture Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:00-4:00p.m. Followed by Dean's Reception Fairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College <http://stjohns.ubc.ca/> 2111 Lower Mall, at the corner of University Blvd and Lower Mall
Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop February 8, 15, 16, 2014. Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW.
The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation. It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence. It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience. Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.
This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the February 8, 15, 16 ISW, please go to:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:30 - 7:30 pm Barber Learning Centre <http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat13D516> Room 182 1961 East Mall Anniversary Lecture by Dr. Joerg Roche, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany Intercultural Language Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Featuring a screening of the CILS Twentieth Anniversary multimedia presentation, and refreshments. Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:00 - 4:30 pm Barber Learning Centre<http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat13D516> Dodson Room 1961 East Mall Anniversary Roundtable Discussion moderated by Alden Habacon, Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, UBC. The Future of Intercultural Engagement in Canadian Higher Education. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CILS-20thAnniversaryEvents Event details can be found on the CILS website in the NEAR future: http://cils.educ.ubc.ca/ More information contact: ken.reeder@ubc.ca
Established in 1994, CILS is a cross-campus centre for research, outreach, and collaboration on issues broadly connected to language, culture, and education. CILS is sponsored by the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts, and Continuing Studies.
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CILS-20thAnniversaryEvents
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Room 182
1961 East Mall
Anniversary Lecture by Dr. Joerg Roche, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany
“Intercultural Language Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward.”
Featuring a screening of the CILS Twentieth Anniversary multimedia presentation, and refreshments.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Dodson Room
1961 East Mall
Anniversary Roundtable Discussion moderated by Alden Habacon, Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, UBC.
“The Future of Intercultural Engagement in Canadian Higher Education.”
Event details can be found on the CILS website in the NEAR future: http://cils.educ.ubc.ca/
More information contact: ken.reeder@ubc.ca
Dear Graduate Students,
Did you take any particularly good pictures around campus while it snowed these last couple of days? Please share them with us on our Facebook Group, Facebook Page or tag us on Twitter @ubcGSS!
GSS Social & Recreational Events:
– Come to the Last Coffee’ll Fix It for 2013! It’s this Thursday December 12th at the GSS Penthouse from 3-6pm (it’s where Seedlings cafe runs from). We’d prefer it if you were wearing an ugly Christmas sweater, because we will. We’ll also provide the tea, coffee, eggnog and festive treats! For enquiries, email the GSS at aa@gss.ubc.ca
– Please plan to pass by the GSS with something to the GSS Food Bin. We will offer your donations to families in need during these winter holidays. Our bin is at the Graduate Student Centre (#225-6371 Crescent Rd). Do your bit to help by dropping off either canned or non-perishable food. Thanks!
GSS Opportunities:
– Did you know that UBC hosts the largest student-led conference in North America? It’s called the Student Leadership Conference and it’s happening on Saturday January 11th 2014. New this year: workshops run by and for grad students looking for ways to expand their leadership skills. Learn about how students, staff, faculty, alumni, community partners, are coming together from around the world to “be infinite” at slc.ubc.ca.
– Job Opportunity: Student Health Report Coordinator: Are you interested in filling this short term position? The deadline to apply is today! It would be especially relevant to you if you’re into health related research.
For those of you still doing exams or grading them, the end is coming! Enjoy the break as you get to it. Love your loved ones.
Ngwatilo
GSS Communications Coordinator
Dear Graduate Students, As part of OGPR's activities in the frame of the Year of Teacher Education, I am developing a brochure on teacher education and teacher research, and one of the sections I would like to include is a brief summary of any teacher education research projects currently being undertaken by our graduate students. Please email me the following if your research contributes perspectives to the field of teacher education or teacher research: Name of student Title of project Department Funding agency Abstract of the project Thank you! Adriana Briseno-Garzon, PhD Project Coordinator, Research and Graduate Programs Office of Graduate Programs and Research Faculty of Education Phone: 604 822 2733 Email: adriana.briseno@ubc.ca
3MT 2014: heat organizer packages are ready. If you are interested in hosting a heat, please e-mail graduate.pathways@ubc.ca to receive the information package.
3MT coaching sessions have been scheduled for January 21th and February 12th, see http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca/schedule/ .
Please alert your incoming graduate students of New Graduate Student Orientation. The complete schedule is available at http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/january-2014/
Important dates:
Dec 11th and 12th: Pre-arrival webinars (accommodation/neighbourhoods/banking/cell phone etc)
Jan 6th: International graduate student welcome (Graduate Student Centre Ballroom)
Jan 9th: Main orientation for all new graduate students (Graduate Student Resources, How to be Successful and Financial information)
(Register for January 9th’s event at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2e67 )
Jan 10th: Graduate Student Society open house and club social (open to new and current graduate students)
January’s GPS workshops include Managing Projects, Communicating with the Media, Time Management, Preparing for your Doctoral Exam (including via webinar), Thesis Submission (including via webinar), Copyright for your Thesis and Business & Professional Effectiveness. For complete details visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .