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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

LSU Health Sciences Center at Dillard University - Recruitment and Information Session

The LSUHSC Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic & Multicultural Affairs Invites
Dillard University Students (faculty, staff, & alums are also welcome) to a Recruitment and Information Session


Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 6:00pm
Professional Schools & Sciences Building Room 135


Come learn about research opportunities, graduate school, medical school and a host of our health science programs:
• School of Allied Health
• School of Dentistry
• School of Graduate Studies
• School of Medicine
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health


Refreshments will be served!
Great door prizes will be distributed!
It’s not too late to apply for Fall 2012 Semester!
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans Stronger and Better!!!
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University of Michigan Best Practices and Tips


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Important Benefits Meeting: Dillard University Office of the Chief Operating Officer



Alert - Important Benefits Meeting - All Fulltime Faculty and Staff



On behalf of the Office of the President and the Dillard University Senior Cabinet, You are highly encouraged to attend the Benefits Presentation on “What’s New with DU Benefits” The presentation will focus on important medical plan changes to our current health insurance plans. Please be sure to attend this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, one of the two (2) sessions scheduled to ensure you have the opportunity to get and ask questions about this very important benefits information. Be sure to visit the “information tables” to pick up your Benefits Packet filled with very important information, when you attend one of the sessions.


When: Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 2011
Where: PSB Bldg., Rms 131 – 135
Times: 10:00am – 11:15am and 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Presenters: Eustis Benefits


To all Department Managers/Supervisors: We ask that you please make arrangements for proper staffing to ensure coverage in your areas/offices, as we do not wish to cause interruption to business operations or class scheduling, but we would like to ensure that all of your full-time employees have an opportunity and time to attend one of the sessions listed above, as this is very important benefits information. If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at (504) 816-4741.


Thanks,
Dillard University HR & Benefits Department
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Call for Papers, Panels & Posters: W. E. B. Du Bois 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference


W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta: A Commemorative Conference at Clark Atlanta University


The year 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. On his birthday in February of that year, it is fitting that Clark Atlanta University (CAU) celebrate his life and scholarship: Dr. Du Bois wrote his most influential works in the 23 years he spent as a professor at Atlanta University. Serving as faculty of the Departments of History and Economics, he taught at Atlanta University from 1897 to 1910, and then returned from 1934 to 1944 as chair of the Department of Sociology. Dr. Du Bois also had impact in the area of social work and as a novelist, poet and short story writer. The W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta Conference will serve as a meeting at the crossroads of various paths of Du Bois’s work. Conference participants will engage in an interdisciplinary and international introspection of the life, scholarship and activism of one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century.


In a four-day conference, beginning on February 20, 2013 and concluding on Du Bois’s birthday of February 23, Clark Atlanta University will host panels that highlight his countless contributions, especially those produced in the 23 years of his tenure. Central works to be discussed include the Phylon journal (founded in 1940) and the Atlanta University Publications (which he directed 1898-1914), where he covered topics including African Americans in higher education, art, the Black church, urbanization, health, business, economics, and race relations in Georgia. Books published while in Atlanta are also central to the CAU discussion: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Black Reconstruction (1935) and Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward and Autobiography of a Race Concept, the second of his three autobiographies (1940).


The Wings of Atlanta conference seeks to bring together local, national and international scholars to explore themes in Dr. Du Bois’s publications and collected papers in order to illuminate his experiences at Fisk University, Harvard University, University of Berlin, Atlanta University, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Ghana and other areas where Du Bois lived and worked. Especially welcome are panels addressing the multitude of Du Boisian intellectual legacies and implications of his myriad research agendas.


This conference will be held as a conclusion to the year-long W. E. B. Du Bois Major Works Seminar Series hosted by the Clark Atlanta University Office of the President, Office of the Provost, School of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of History. The W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta Conference, held on CAU’s campus, offers a uniquely significant locale from which to commemorate, interrogate, and celebrate the life and work of this exquisitely educated and distinctly complex man.


As interest is wide but space limited, individual conference papers will be considered, but panels of 4-6 papers will be given preference. Panel proposals should be no more than 4 pages long and individual paper proposals no more than 2 pages. Panel submissions must identify the panel chair, names, phone numbers, email addresses, and institutional affiliation information for the chair and all panelists.


One-page proposals for undergraduate and graduate student posters are also encouraged.

Send proposals to Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans at sevans@cau.edu  


For questions or additional information, call Dr. Evans at 404-880-6352.

Conference proposals will be accepted between January 1, 2012 and July 1, 2012.


Acceptance notification: August 15, 2012.


Excerpt from “Of the Wings of Atlanta,” chapter five in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a center of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.


CAU History Department Website: http://www.cau.edu/Academics_History_Main.aspx  


CFP PDF: http://www.cau.edu/CMFiles/Docs/CAU2013DuBoisConferenceCFP.pdf

CAU History Department Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/CAUHistoryDepartment

2012 W.E.B. Du Bois Major Works Seminar Series
In 2012, Clark Atlanta University will host a year-long reading seminar on the major works of W.E.B. Du Bois.


The CAU President, Provost, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Chair of the Department of History will engage in a sustained consideration of Du Boisian texts in preparation for the 2013 On the Wings of Atlanta Commemorative Conference. We encourage scholars of all levels to join the CAU campus, Atlanta University Center, and Atlanta-metro institutions in a nation-wide Sankofa sojourn into the writing of the most profound, relevant and complex scholar of our generation.


Spring 2012
Jan 20, 2012 SOUL OF DU BOIS: A CAU PERSPECTIVE
The Souls of Black Folk (1903); The Gift of Black Folk (1924)


February 24, 2012 RACE RESEARCH
The Study of the Negro Problems (1898); The Philadelphia Negro (1899); Bibliography of the
Negro American (1905); Select Discussion of Race Problems (1916)


March 23, 2012 CRIME & HEALTH
Some Notes on Negro Crime, Particularly in Georgia (1904); Health and Physique (1906)


April 27, 2012 LITERATURE & ART
The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911); Dark Princess: A Romance (1928); The Negro Artisan (1902


& 1912)


Fall 2012


July 13, 2012 AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Autobiographies: Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (1920), Dusk of Dawn: An Essay
Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940), and The Autobiography of W. E. Burghardt

Du Bois (International publishers, 1968)


August 31, 2012 AFRICA
The World and Africa, an Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (1946/
1965); Africa, Its Geography, People and Products: Its Place in Modern History (1930)


September 28, 2012 RECONSTRUCTION & RESISTANCE
John Brown: A Biography (1909); Black Reconstruction: An Essay toward a History of the Part
Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 (1935)


October 26, 2012 CHURCH, FAMILY & UPLIFT
Some Efforts of American Negroes for Their Own Social Betterment (1897 & 1909); Morals and
Manners (1914); The Negro Church (1903); The Family (1908)


November 23, 2012 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Negro in Business (1899); Business and Business Education (1947, Joseph Pierce Ed.);
Economic Cooperation (1907 & 1917)


January 23, 2013 EDUCATION
College Bred Negro (1900 & 1910); The Common School (1901 & 1911)


February 22, 2013 BLACK FOLK, THEN & NOW
The Negro (1915); Black Folk, Then and Now (1939)
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Dillard University Student Research Support Workshop: Research Analysis Techniques Using SPSS


November 16, 2011 (Wednesday)
10:00 a.m. – 12 noon
DUICEF, Rm. 101 1st Floor, Computer Lab
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The Office of Undergraduate Research is sponsoring a entitled “Research Analysis Techniques Using SPSS”. This workshop will focus on topics, tools, and techniques that can be used by students to enhance their ability to analyze research data.


Four consecutive sessions will be held, each covering specific topics. To maximize the benefits offered by this workshop, participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is free!


• Types of Data and Data Collection Techniques
• Fundamental Applications (Descriptive Statistics)
• Regression and ANOVA Using SPSS
• Application. This session will enable participants to use SPSS in examining their own research problem and data.


Workshops will be facilitated by Dr. Hong Dai, Mathematics, STEM and Dr. Willie Kirkland, Institutional Research Political Science, ALSS.


Students in all majors are encouraged to attend. The workshop will be of special interest to students who are currently engaged in research projects in the classroom, or are working on an independent research project under the guidance of faculty mentors. Students working with faculty mentors or participating in the LAMP/GALA and Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Competitions in April 2008 are especially encouraged to attend. Faculty and staff are also welcome. Seating will be on a first-come basis.


Lynn Y.R. Strong, MPA, CIM
Director, Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Enrichment Programs
Administrator, IRB/Manager, HSR
Dillard University
Professional Schools Bldg., Rm. 250
2601 Gentilly Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70122
Tel: 504-816-4446
Fax: 504-816-4313
lstrong@dillard.edu

Overview: Two one-hour sessions on the basic principles of data analysis using SPSS as a tool.


Title: “Research Analysis Techniques Using SPSS”

Workshop Facilitators:
Dr. Hong Dai, Mathematics, STEM
Dr. Willie Kirkland, Political Science, ALSS, and Office of Institutional Research


Who Should Attend:
Dillard students and faculty interested in the conduct, sponsorship, and oversight of research and research data analysis.


Location: Computer Lab DUICEF, Rm. 101 - 1st Floor Computer Laboratory Dillard University


Host: Undergraduate Research, Dillard University


Registration Information:
There is no fee for this workshop. Early registration is advised as enrollment is limited to 30. At-the-door registration is not guaranteed. A Registration Form is attached. Please indicate which section(s) you plan to attend.


Cancellation Policy:
Space is limited. In order to accommodate as many interested individuals as possible, if you are unable to attend a session, please notify the Undergraduate Research Office one day prior to November 16.


Program Contact:
Lynn Strong, Director
Undergraduate Research
PSB, 250
lstrong@dillard.edu
(504) 816-4446
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Campus Technology: 6 Easy Steps to Online Success

Against his better instincts, an educator at West Texas A&M University shares his school's recipe for developing a successful online learning program. MORE


By Richard Rose
10/24/11
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Campus Technology: Diving Into the Cloud



In a two-part series, CT provides IT administrators with an easy-to-understand primer to help them educate campus constituents about the cloud and what it can do for their institutions. MORE



By Rama Ramaswami, Dian Schaffhauser
10/31/11
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Kovacs Consulting: Web-based Continuing Education and Professional Training for Librarians and Other Information Professionals


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