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Dear Graduate Students,
Welcome back to UBC and the Faculty of Education! We would like to celebrate your return to the Faculty and also welcome new graduate students to the Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR).
Please drop by and see us at our WELCOME BACK OPEN HOUSE!
Date: October 9th
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Location: Room 309, Scarfe Bldg.
This event is open to all graduate students in the Faculty of Education . We look forward to seeing you.
Cheers,
OGPR Team
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Office of Graduate Programs and Research
UBC Faculty of Education
T: 604.822.5512 |E: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca<mailto:educ.ogpr@ubc.ca>
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The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic invites proposals for funding from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for the year 2014-15. Please find attached a memo from Dr. Anna Kindler, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic. Please ensure that this information is made available to all faculty and students in your unit.
The deadline for units to submit applications to the Office of the Provost and VP Academic is Wednesday, November 21, 2013 at 4:30pm. Application forms can be downloaded from the TLEF website at http://tlef.ubc.ca/.
Applicants are asked to carefully review the TLEF Criteria (http://tlef.ubc.ca/tlef-criteria/) and the Application Procedures (http://tlef.ubc.ca/application-process/) as there have been some important changes added for this year.
A workshop for Standard TLEF funding applicants will be held on Monday, October 7th, 12:00-2:00p.m., in Room 2.22 (CTLT) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Applicants should click here to register. There is also assistance for Flexible-Learning TLEF funding applicants as noted in Dr. Kindler’s memo.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Selina Fast at selina.fast@ubc.ca.
It’s a well known fact that the average grad student manages to de-forest a small country, not to mention lose litres of blood due to paper cuts, from the paper they generate during the grad school process. It is possible to manage much of it with technology; different software and apps can help streamline the process of collecting, sorting, and reading literature, and make writing a less stressful process. This workshop is a chance to share tips and tricks, learn about some of these tools, and test out some of the ways you can tame your literature pile into a more manageable beast.
Reminder to send your Welcome Back Barbecue RSVP to kalie.fong@ubc.ca by Friday October 7th, 2013!
Also, please let her know if you are vegetarian.
This is a great opportunity to meet the EDCP faculty and your fellow students.
Coffee’ll Fix It! Socials
In addition to providing a much needed tea and coffee break, the Coffee’ll Fix It! social will run every Thursday afternoon from 3pm and include activities such as information sessions, guest speakers, forums, speed dating, and games days.
This week’s topic:
Meet the GSS President and Vice-President Services
Do you have questions about what the Graduate Student Society (GSS) has to offer graduate students? Would you like to become involved? Are you interested in some of our upcoming events including the Halloween Party, Spanish or Zumba classes, or perhaps you would like to find out how to became the representative for your department?
GSS President, Christopher Roach and Vice-President Services, Yuanyuan Liu will be available to answer any questions you may have, or just to say hello!
Please join us:
Thursday, from 3 pm
Seedlings Café, GSS Penthouse
Thea Koerner House 6371 Crescent Road
For enquiries, please contact aa@gss.ubc.ca
As part of Celebrate Learning Week and Year of Teacher Education Join us for Celebrate Science 2013 Making Science Fun! at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. October 26, 2013 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. For teachers, librarians, writers, parents and teens. Come hear Dr. Andrew Trites, UBC scientist who was part of the team that brought the blue whale skeleton to the Beaty. Special tribute to Gordon Gore founder of the Big Little Science Centre in Kamloops. Also learn from science writers for kids and teens as they talk about their books--featuring Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone, Carol McDougall, E. Paul Zehr, and Claire Eamer to mention a few. Free admission and tour of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum! Register: Go to CelebrateScience.eventbrite.com
Dr. Sharon P. Holland, Sept. 23, 4-5pm, UBC. This is one of very exciting events that we are co-sponsoring this year. Hope to see many of you there! (tea, coffee and snacks available from 3:30pm) Note: We will be starting on time, so that those of us doing a Theory Double-Bill can make it to the Vogue Theater for Bruno Latour later that evening ------------- SOCIAL JUSTICE @ UBC NOTED SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES 2013-2014 The Intimate Public Sphere: Thinking Through the Skin Sept. 23, 4-5pm Liu Institute Multipurpose Room (tea, coffee and snacks available from 3:30pm)
The Erotic Life of Racism Dr. Sharon P. Holland Associate Professor, English and African & African American Studies, Duke University This talk builds upon The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012) a project that specifically interrogates the relationship among African Americanist, Queer studies and Critical Race theorists. It makes a major contribution to these fields by tracing the very thorny question of the place of race at the table of ideas in what has become to be known as queer theory. The book is a wholly theoretical project that invests itself in articulating where and when queer theory borrows from critical race theory and how this borrowing also intersects with queer theory's roots in feminist studies. What I want to think through in this lecture is the how, why and when of the project by speaking specifically to the various theoretical and experiential roads that led me to the work. Dr. Sharon P. Holland is the author of Raising The Dead: Readings Of Death And (Black) Subjectivity (Duke UP, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA 2002). She is also co-author of Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006) and author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com/ Co-sponsored by Jane Rule Endowment, CSIS, and the Global Queer Research Group, Liu Institute
Danny Bakan
University of British Columbia
“Song and Social Justice: Music and Activism”
Thursday, September 26th, 2013
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forum, Allard Hall, Faculty of Law (1822 East Mall)
You are cordially invited to a Welcome Back Barbecue on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Venue is the garden at the west entrance of the Scarfe Building.
For catering purposes, please RSVP to Kalie at kalie.fong@ubc.ca by Friday, October 7th, 2013.
We hope to see you all on October 17th, 2013!
Welcome back to a new academic year!
For the past three years, members of EDCP have made homemade soup and either baked or purchased bread for Thursday shared lunch. This has offered everyone an enjoyable social moment in a busy day, where we pause to eat something delicious and talk with our colleagues. Sharing a meal is a wonderful way to build community — and we all work better after a nutritious lunch.
Those who want to participate, please sign up to contribute soup or bread once in the September-to-April academic year. Ideally, we will have two people each week bringing a pot of soup, and we aim to have at least one vegetarian option. We supply a bread machine and two large crock pots to warm the soup, and try to have everything hot and ready to eat at 12:00 noon.
To sign up for a particular Thursday, contact Saroj Chand <saroj.chand@ubc.ca>.
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses:
Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record. Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.
Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.
Full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses:
Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record. Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.
Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.
Registration is now open for:
GPS/CSI&C Session: Resume Clinic
Wednesday, Sept 25th, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10593-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic
To register, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b03
Re-orientation
Wednesday, Sept 25th, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Did you miss new graduate student orientation? Re-orientation includes a presentation on “Being Successful as a Graduate Student” as well as “Navigating Funding at UBC”.
To register, visit http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b04 .
Registration continues for this week’s GPS events:
Copyright for your Thesis, Tuesday, September 17th, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM:
Register at http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2ae7.
Doctoral Exam Preparation Tuesday, September 17th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Submitting your Thesis Tuesday, September 17th, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
To register for one or both of the above sessions, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2aee
Doctoral Exam Preparation (via webinar), Thursday, Sept 19th 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Thesis Submission (via webinar)Thursday, Sept 19th , 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
To register for one or both of the above sessions, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2af0
NOTES:
Interested in pursuing a career in project management? UBC Continuing Studies Award of Achievement: Project Management for Tomorrow’s Leaders can help you develop job-ready skills.
Fall 2013 Program dates: Oct 21-Nov 28
Six in-class Thursday sessions (Oct 24, 31, and Nov 7, 14, 21 & 28)
For more information, visit http://cstudies.ubc.ca/project-management/award-of-achievement-in-project-management-tomorrow-leaders/index.html . Early bird registration ends Sept 23rd.
For upcoming GPS events, see www.grad.ubc.ca/gps .