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EDCP Peer Mentor Program

What is the Peer Mentor Program?

The EDCP Peer Mentor Program is designed to ease your transition to graduate school and the UBC community. The Peer Mentor Program will match a new graduate student with an upper-year graduate student in the EDCP department. Your mentor is someone who can help you with questions about academic and social challenges, such as selecting courses, how to get involved in the department, UBC and Vancouver community, and how to get used to graduate school. This person can become your “go to” for questions, but remember it is an informal relationship and they are speaking from personal experience. Your mentor has probably experienced many of the challenges that you will face. Plus, it is always nice to have a friendly face on campus or someone you can grab coffee with!

I am new to UBC – how do I sign up to get a mentor?

Follow the link and fill out an online application. We will match you with a mentor as they become available.

Application: tinyurl.com/NewStudentApp

I am an upper-year student – how do I sign up to be a mentor?

Follow the link and fill out an online application.

Application: tinyurl.com/UpperYearApp

We will send you information and Frequently Asked Questions to help get you started. We will match you with a mentee as they identify they would like mentors.

Remember, you can also ask any questions to the Peer Advisors and we would be happy to help you as well!

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International Student Support

Please contact Espen (gisseduc@gmail.com) if you need support.

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Mark your calendar! Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (Oct 2)‏

You’re invited to the first gathering of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice! 
Date: Wednesday, October 2nd
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Place: Fraser River Room in the Centre for Teaching and Technology at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Registration:  http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2865

Description 

Please come join our first Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) meeting for the new academic year to meet new and old community members from across the disciplines and to plan the Community’s activities for the year. The session will include a brief presentation by Pam Kalas from the Department of Zoology sharing lessons learned from integrating the Truth and Reconciliation event on September 18 into her biology course (BIOL121) (Click here for a brief story on this initiative). Bring your colleagues, your ideas for interdisciplinary activities, and curiosity and enthusiasm for building interdisciplinarity into your courses!

What’s a Community of Practice?
Communities of practice are groups whose members “share a passion for something they know how to do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better” (Wenger 2006). The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology supports Communities of Practice on a range of topics.
The ICoP developed out of UBC Mix, a TLEF project that supports and facilitates classroom-level interdisciplinary learning activities and partnerships between instructors across disciplines. The ICoP meets 4-5 times a year, providing a regular time and space for interdisciplinary enthusiasts to discuss the practice and pedagogy of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
If you have a question you would like to address in future Interdisciplinary Community of Practice meetings, please be in touch with the co-facilitators: Hanae Tsukada (ctlt.prodev@ubc.ca) and/or Jacqueline Davis (Jad310@mail.harvard.edu).

If you have questions about other Communities of Practice, please contact Mali Bain, the Community of Practice developer (ctlt.copdeveloper@ubc.ca).

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Common Energy & Sort it Out

There are lots of ways for students to get involved in sustainability at UBC. There are two ways you can get involved immediately:

1. Volunteer with Sort It Out: UBC Campus Sustainability is looking for volunteers to help the campus transition to the new recycling stations. Volunteers will be at the recycling stations during peak morning and noon times, highlighting the benefits of sorting reusable materials and ensuring that people understand what goes into each bin.  The time required for each shift will be approximately 2 hours.Volunteers will receive a training session on Monday Sept. 9th from 5-6pm, a Sort it Out T-shirt, and a $20 gift card to the UBC Bookstore.

If you are interested in helping with Sort It Out, please reply sender to me to let me know, and I will put you in touch with the Campus Sustainability staff who are running this program.

2. Join Common Energy UBC: Common Energy is the largest and most active student sustainability organization on campus, and we are always looking for new members to help us incorporate sustainability into all aspects of the UBC community. I would like to invite you to come to one of our Welcome Events to meet the rest of the Common Energy exec and find out more. The events are happening on:

  • Monday, Sept. 17, 6-7:30pm
  • Tuesday, Sept. 18, 6-7:30pm
  • Wednesday, Sept. 26, 6-7:30pm

They are all happening in the Global Lounge at Marine Drive Building 1.

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NewsFlash #637, September 6, 2013‏

http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash/

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EDCP Lecture Series begins Sept 13 – Dr. Pinar on Ethical Engagements with Alterity

Date:             Friday, Sept 13th 2013

Venue:          Scarfe Room 310

Time:             12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Title:              Ethical Engagements with Alterity

Speaker:       Dr. William Pinar, Professor and CRC Chair in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

After briefly discussing the lecture series title, Pinar will discuss his study of curriculum studies in China, involving interviews as well online discussions among the scholar-participants in China and an International Panel composed of scholars from Estonia, Mexico, and the U.S. Pinar will review the process and report conclusions.

Light lunch served at noon.  The Lecture commences at 12:30 pm.  There is no need to RSVP.

 

This lecture is part of the 2013-2014 EDCP Lecture Series hosted by William E. Doll Jr., Donna Trueit and William Pinar.

 

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Call for Nominations: Killam Awards for Excellence in Mentoring

All continuing faculty with a clinical, tenure or grant tenure appointment at the UBC Vancouver Campus are eligible. The mid-career award recognizes faculty members with less than 12 years of university service and the senior award recognizes those with 12 or more years of university service.

Nomination Deadline

Departments may submit up to two nominations, one nomination per category. Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies must receive completed nomination packages by 4:00 PM on Friday, September 27, 2013.

Further Information

For evaluation criteria and nomination materials required, please visit:

http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/killam-awards-excellence-mentoring

If you have further inquiries regarding the competition, please contact:

Junnie Cheung

Killam, Development & Associate Deans’ Administrative Assistant | Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Phone 604 822 9683 | Fax 604 822 5802

junnie.cheung@ubc.ca |

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MURRAY ELLIOTT SERVICE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

This award honours full-time and sessional faculty, staff and other persons associated with the Faculty of Education who have made an outstanding contribution to the Teacher Education Program at UBC. The recipient will receive a plaque along with a Pendleton blanket.  In addition, the recipient’s name will be displayed in the Faculty alongside other recipients of the award.

The nomination package should include 3 letters of nomination that address the following criteria:

·         The recipient will have shown exceptional dedication, leadership skills, and commitment to the ongoing improvement of the UBC Teacher Education Program over an extended period of time.

·         A detailed overview of the nominee’s accomplishments and/or contribution to the Teacher Ed Program.

Nomination in one year does not restrict the individual from being nominated in subsequent years; however, an individual may only receive the award once.

Nominations must be submitted by Monday September 23, 2013 to:

Dr. Rita L. Irwin, Associate Dean of Teacher Education

Chair, Awards Committee (Murray Elliott Service Award)

Teacher Education Office

2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4

Nominators are encouraged to submit nominations much earlier in September if at all possible.

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HELP NEEDED – A teacher in New Zeland wants your letters!

Help needed.

I have a number of children at kindergarten who have a developing interest in mail, post, and the wider world. Can I get people to post us a postcard from your place in the world. We will endeavour to reply with a kiwi postcard to as many as we can.

Springlands Kindergarten
24 Murphys Road
Blenheim 7201
New Zealand

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TerreWEB Fall Seminar Schedule

Seminars will be held Thursdays from 2-3:30pm, most often in Room 154 in MacMillan (unless otherwise stated).  For clickable links (under speaker info) please visit the schedule on the website.

This email is also a reminder that we will start off the term with a small gathering, this coming Thursday, Sept 5th, at 2pm in MCML 350. Refreshments will be provided and we’ll have a round of introductions to welcome our new scholars. All TerreWEB scholars and faculty are welcome!

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RC25 Language & Society – Call for abstracts

International Sociological Association

XVIII World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, 2014 13-18 July (Japan)

Dear RC25 members and colleagues,
This a reminder of the call for abstracts by the RC25 Language and Society for the upcoming ISA XVIII World Congress of Sociology to be held in Yokohama.
Link for abstracts submission: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi.
To submit an abstract for the ISA World Congress, you must select a Research Committee and a Session. You can see below the list of sessions organized by RC 25 and a link to detailed descriptions of each session.
Abstracts are limited to 300 words. While RC 25 supports a wide variety of scholarship, please keep in mind that papers must look at language in interaction and in systems of representation. Please identify the theoretical/methodological approach that you will use in your papers.If you have questions about any specific session, please feel free to contact the Session Organizers or Program Coordinators for more information.

Please, remember the deadline for abstracts submission:  September 30, 2013 (24 GMT).

Best regards,

Amado Alarcón (Rovira & Virgili University) and Celine-Marie Pascale (American University), RC25 Program Coordinators

RC25 Program Theme: The Language of Inequality.

List of RC25 Sessions & Session Organizers:

– Migrations and Conditions of Belonging. Organizer: Erzsébet Barát, University of Szeged,   zsazsa@lit.u-szeged.hu

– Online interaction: The changing meanings of social context. Organizer: Anders Persson, Lund University,  anders.persson@soc.lu.se

– Popular & Sociological Discourses on Inequality. Organizer: Frédéric Moulène. University of Strasbourg,  frederic.moulene@voila.fr.

– Identity and institutional categorization.  Organizer: Frida Petersson, University of Gothenburg, frida.petersson@socwork.gu.se

– Activism, Media and Justice. Co-organized by Roberta Villalon, St. John’s University, villalor@stjohns.edu  and Natalie Byfield, St. John’s University,  byfieldn@stjohns.edu

– Old and new conditions of language endangerment. Organizer: Olga Kazakevich, Lomonosov Moscow State University, kazakevich.olga@gmail.com

– Producing Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge. Organizer: Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova, Trakia University,  nadyageorgieva@abv.bg

– The Language of Borders: Exclusion and Resistance. Organizer: Trinidad Valle, Fordham University, valle@fordham.edu

– Privilege and Stigma. Organizer: Thomas Horejes, Gallaudet University, Thomas.Horejes@gallaudet.edu

– Markets, Power and Language. Organizer: Laura García Landa. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  garlanster@gmail.com

– Current debates in Japanese Scholarship on Language & Society. Co-organized by: Amado Alacón , Rovira & Virgili University,  amado.alarcon@urv.cat, and Keiji Fujiyoshi, Koyasan University, fjosh524@hotmail.com

– Sociological Analyses of Language. Organizer: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA, pascal@amercian.edu

– Language and Work: Representations of Psychosocial Health at Work Joint Session: RC 25 and RC 30 Sociology of Work. Co-Organizers: Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Études en Habitat Durable,  stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be,  Adeline Gilson, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Sociologie du Travail, adeline.gilson@univ-amu.fr

– Naming Marriage as Gendered. Joint Round table session: RC32 Women in Society and RC25. Co-Organizers: Shobha Gurung,  Southern Utah University, gurung@suu.edu, and Melanie Heath, McMaster University, mheath@mcmaster.ca
Full description of the RC25 sessions: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC25

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Free Statistical Consultation — UBC Department of Statistics

Dear UBC Graduate Students and Faculty:
 
I am writing to let you know that, as in past years, free statistical consultation will be available this fall term, from graduate students enrolled in our practicum course STAT 551 (Statistical Consulting).
 
Students in this course have already completed STAT 550 (Techniques of Statistical Consulting), and will be carrying out this academic activity under my overall supervision.

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STAT 551, FALL Term of 2013-2014
 
Projects from all UBC-affiliated units and all levels of researchers, particularly including graduate students, are welcome.  Research projects requiring primarily advice on appropriate designs and methods of statistical analysis are ideally suited for STAT 551.  To allow each
551 student to be exposed to several projects, the total time spent on each project has to be limited.  Thus, smaller projects are particularly suitable.  Students will provide at most 2 to 4 hours of "face-to-face"
consultation on a given project but will also provide a written report containing detailed advice and recommendations.
 
Due to this time limitation, STAT 551 projects typically do not involve carrying out data analyses.  Our Statistical Consulting and Research Laboratory (SCARL) has fee-for-service options in cases where further work is desired -- check the CONSULTING link at www.stat.ubc.ca for more information.
 
To take advantage of this unique opportunity to receive free statistical advice, please submit your project description to me by e-mail (as an attached WORD document, to john at stat dot ubc dot ca), with a subject line clearly indicating STAT 551.
 
Your project description should consist of a concise description of your research problem in non-specialist language, with a clear indication of specific statistical issues on which advice is desired.  A description of at most one page is preferred.  Please only attach supplementary material if it is absolutely essential.  (For example, sending a grant proposal, together with a cover note saying you want advice on its statistical aspects without any attempt to describe the research problem in terms that can be understood by a Statistics graduate student or to clarify what specific statistical issues are of concern, is not an appropriate submission.)  A sample project description can be viewed at:
http://www.stat.ubc.ca/SCARL/HowSCARLHelp/Detail/stat551.php
 
As soon as your project is approved for STAT 551, your description will be added to the list from which students will select projects.  Thus it is to your advantage to submit a clear description as soon as possible.
Students will begin selecting projects immediately at the start of the fall term.  The clearer your description, the more likely students are to select your project sooner rather than later and the more productive the initial consultation session is likely to be.
 
Once your project has been selected, the student will contact you to arrange an appointment for an initial consultation session.  If, at any time prior to being contacted, you no longer require advice on your project, please let me know so the students do not spend time preparing for "inactive" projects.
 
Please note that a graduate student seeking advice via STAT 551 needs the permission of his/her supervisor.  An e-mail from the supervisor at the time of project submission suffices.
 
If you know others who might be interested in this opportunity, please pass on this information.
 
Thanks in advance for submitting interesting and challenging projects for the students enrolled in STAT 551 this term.
 
John Petkau
Professor
2013-14 STAT 551 Instructor
Department of Statistics, UBC
 
E-mail: john at stat dot ubc dot ca
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Grow veggies with children @ UBC Farm! Be a volunteer Farm Friend!‏

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT LAND, FOOD, AND COMMUNITY?

Do you want to share your passion with children?

The Intergenerational Landed Learning Project invites adults who care about land, food, and community to volunteer as “Farm Friends” and garden with school children at the UBC Farm. Farm Friend volunteers work in intergenerational teams of one elder, one younger, and 3-5 elementary students to sow, grow, harvest prepare, and eat food crops at the UBC Farm.

Farm Friends commit 12 mornings (Wednesday or Thursday, approximately every other week) from late September 2013-June 2014 to work and learn with their Farm Friend teams.  Seniors particularly sought!  On-call volunteers are also sought to fill in as needed.

“Farm Friends” may be asked to participate in an educational research study that is a part of this project.

Want to find out more?   

-Check out our website, http://m2.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/landedlearning/ for FAQs

-Contact Stacy at landed.learning@ubc.ca or 604-822-4842

-Come to an info session at the UBC Farm*:

  • Wednesday, September 4, 9:30-11am
  • Thursday, September 5, 9:30-11am
  • Wednesday, September 11. 9:30-11am
  • Thursday, September 12. 9:30-11am

*All info sessions will be held in the Children’s Learning Garden at the UBC Farm. RSVP landed.learning@ubc.ca or 604-822-4842.

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UBC’s Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment policy

This notice is being sent to HEADS-UP on behalf of Hubert Lai, Q.C, University Counsel. Please distribute this notice to all faculty members, staff, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in your units.

UBC is required to have policies and systems that comply with all granting agencies. In addition to meeting this basic requirement, UBC’s policies are designed to provide a high level of protection for the integrity of the University and its faculty and staff. To this end, UBC has had a policy on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment since 1992. The policy was substantially revised in 2006 and, for faculty members, the paper-based declarations were replaced with a web-based disclosure system. For staff members, paper-based declarations were replaced with e-mails. These changes, particularly the introduction of a simplified web-based disclosure system, enabled major improvements in conflict tracking, approval, and management.

The policy and web-based system underwent further review and upgrades in 2012. In order to ensure that all faculty members and staff members are aware of UBC’s current conflict of interest and conflict of commitment systems and standards, the Office of the University Counsel has prepared a summary of the material changes to UBC’s Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment policy. To review this summary, please click here:

http://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/files/2013/07/Summary-of-Significant-Changes.pdf

In addition, the Office of the University Counsel is offering information sessions throughout 2013 for every Faculty. Sessions are being held at Point Grey, Okanagan, and hospital-based locations. For information about information sessions that have already been scheduled, please click here:

http://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/upcoming-training/

You are welcome to come to info sessions that are not in your home Faculty. Also, if you would like to arrange an information session for your unit or management team, or if you have any questions about conflict of interest and conflict of commitment at UBC, please contact Christine Hjorleifson:

Christine Hjorleifson

Conflict of Interest Administrator

Office of the University Counsel

Tel: 604-822-8623

Email: christine.hjorleifson@ubc.ca

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Pre-Arrival Info Sessions for Newly Admitted International Students

As an international student, there’s a lot to think about when moving to a new country. You are invited to attend a series of virtual information session on a range of topics that will help you prepare for your arrival to UBC. During these sessions, UBC’s extremely knowledgeable International Student Advisors will provide you with important information on the topics listed below, after which you will have the opportunity to ask general questions.

Check out the link for more information.

http://students.ubc.ca/international-info-sessions

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