Thursday, February 23, 2012
South Carolina State University News: SC State University Offers New Scholarship Opportunities While Enhancing Application Process
http://www.scsu.edu/
February 3, 2012
SC State University has announced new merit scholarship opportunities for current, transfer and newly enrolled students at the University. The general, presidential, transfer and achievers scholarships are designed to recognize leadership qualities, to reward exceptional academic performance, and to assist academically talented students financially.
One of the highlights of this year’s application process, according to Antonio Boyle, assistant vice president for Enrollment Management, is the convenient, online accessibility. “Students are now able to access the University’s website to apply for scholarships rather than having to visit the financial aid office,” says Boyle. “These scholarships allow us to attract high quality transfer students and recognize and reward academic excellence for current students to boost retention while improving the academic profile of the University.”
Benefits of the scholarships range from full tuition costs to room, board and book assistance. Additional benefits and specifications are outlined on the attached document. Below are general requirements for each scholarship:
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REMINDER CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 19th Annual HBCU Faculty Development Network Conference
Theme: Innovating
and Inspiring in a Global
World
We cordially invite you to
participate in the 19th Annual HBCU Faculty Development Network Conference to be held in
Orlando, Florida on October 18-20, 2012. With this year’s conference them: “Innovating
and Inspiring in a Global World,” we invite and challenge our HBCU Faculty
Development Network colleagues to develop new ideas and ways of thinking about
innovation in teaching and at the same time inspire our students to perform to
their optimal level of scholarship. For most of our students, the traditional
approaches of teaching and learning may be outdated. Although the role and
responsibility of the college professor remains the same, the classroom
environment, the students, and the tools needed to engender more impactful
teaching and learning outcomes have drastically changed. Indeed, when this
generation of students comes into the classroom, they seem to expect an
environment that mirrors their world.
54 Travel Grants - $1,000.00 each
Available to presenters at the
HBCUFDN 2012 Annual Conference
Submit proposal to be eligible
Additionally, because of the
exponential growth of knowledge and its availability anywhere and anytime, it
has become increasingly difficult for college faculty to facilitate the
motivation and inspire students to learn. Instructional faculty cannot afford
to remain passive with teaching modalities; innovative ways to inspire students
and prepare them for a global world must be found. This means that all who are
concerned about educating our students to function in a global society have a
responsibility to adapt teaching and learning to the needs of the students
rather than the students adapting to the needs of the instructional personnel.
Orlando is the ideal setting for this year’s conference. The City of Orlando,
Florida, is a vacation mecca for people from around the world. In fact, the
entire Orlando region is home to an incredible assortment of family
entertainment attractions, second to none. Among them are:
Jeton McClinton, Conference
Coordinator, (jeton.mcclinton@jsums.edu
Laurette Foster, Conference
Co-Chair (lbfoster@pvamu.edu)
Steve Rozman, Conference Co-Chair
and Executive Director (srozman@aol.com)
Eugene Hermitte, President (ehermitte@gmail.com)
Strands of the HBCU Faculty
Development Symposium
Collaborative
Models
Active
Learning and Engagement
Curriculum
Design and Revision
Diversity
and Globalization
Learning
Across the Curriculum & Learning Communities
Educational
Technology
Assessment
and Evaluation
Civic
Engagement and Social Justice
Special
Topics in Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences
NOTE: See
strands link on the HBCUFDN website for detailed descriptions:
General Information
All proposals are due on or
before Friday, March 16, 2012. Notifications of acceptance of proposal will be
sent by May 11th, 2012. All proposals should be submitted using the form provided
via the Call for Proposals link. Please submit your completed form online
beginning Tuesday, January 31st on the HBCUFDN website at http://www.HBCUFDN.org. The
deadline for receiving proposals will be midnight (Central) on Friday,
March 16, 2012.
Session Types
The Network welcomes
proposals for a variety of session types, including the following:
1. Pre-conference Workshops:*
3-hour
interactive workshops
2. Concurrent Sessions:
75-minute
interactive sessions
75-minute
roundtable discussions
poster
presentations
For all session types, proposals
should describe work that is systematically designed,
implemented, and assessed, and
make clear how participants might apply, extend, or
adapt the ideas they learned.
Specific information about the different session types
follows.
Pre-conference Workshops
Pre-conference workshops
emphasize learning-by-doing and provide participants the opportunity to explore
topics in depth through a combination of hands-on activities, reflection, and
discussion. As such, proposals should include a detailed outline describing the
types of learning activities and interaction you are planning. Additionally,
proposals should indicate the maximum number of participants and any special
room set-up you might need. Audio-visual equipment, including a LCD projector,
flipchart, and wireless internet access, may be requested. Computer
laboratories are not available and presenters must provide their own laptops.
The vast majority of pre-conference workshops are three hours in length. These
workshops will take place the morning of Thursday, October 18th. Pre-conference
workshops are advertised in the conference registration materials. We will
notify you of pre-registration numbers before the conference and request that
you be prepared for and accommodate on-site registrants as well.
Concurrent Sessions :
75-minute interactive
sessions:These sessions combine brief presentations or panel discussions with methods that engage all participants. We recommend that your sessions be interactive, collegial sessions—not of lecturing or reading papers to passive audiences. Session leaders are encouraged to incorporate meaningful activities as appropriate, selecting from a variety of methods such as presentation, demonstration, discussion, application, feedback, group and individual work, and role playing. We encourage you to creativity model exemplary teaching! Audio-visual equipment, including a LCD projector, flipchart, and wireless internet access, may be requested.
Roundtable discussions provide an opportunity for various kinds of interactions in a smaller group setting such as discussion of a concept, approach, program, issue, case study, or reading. This format is ideal for getting to know people who may be facing similar issues to you, for exploring new ideas, and sharing practices. It is contrary to the spirit of a roundtable discussion for the facilitator to make a formal presentation. No audio-visual equipment is available for roundtable discussions and none may be used by presenters in this format.
The poster session provides an ideal format for presenting your research, program, or work-in-progress in a context where you can engage in many one-on-one discussions with colleagues. Attractive posters using large, readable fonts and illustrative graphics will attract conference participants and invite conversation about your work. Each poster presenter will have a 4x8 foot poster board, a supply of thumbtacks, and a small presenter’s table. The poster board can easily accommodate large format posters or individual 8½”x11” sheets. The presenter’s table is ideal for displaying materials, handouts, business cards, etc. Note that the poster session site has no multi-media support, no guaranteed wireless internet connection, and no power outlets. Personal laptops may be used during the poster session, but we recommend bringing an additional battery, a backup laptop, and/ or paper handouts.
All are welcome to submit a proposal. Once a session is accepted, each presenter and co-presenter must agree to be a member of the HBCUFDN and be a paid registrant at the conference.
Each attendee may propose up to one pre-conference workshop as either the primary or co-presenter. Each attendee may also propose up to two concurrent sessions but he/she may be the primary presenter for only one of these sessions. For the second session, he/she must be listed as a co-presenter. Interactive sessions, roundtable discussions, posters presentations, and joint HBCUFDN sessions are included in this two-session limit.
presenter and a second concurrent
session proposal as co-presenter.
Example #2: An attendee may submit two concurrent session
proposals as co-presenter.
Example#3: An attendee may submit
one pre-conference workshop proposal as the
lead presenter, a concurrent
session proposal as lead presenter, and a second
concurrent session proposal as
co-presenter.
Sale of materials and the
solicitation of consulting work
To avoid the possibility of a
conflict of interest, the Network does not permit in any conference session the
sale of materials before or during the conference nor the solicitation of
presentation materials after the conference. Furthermore, The Network does not
allow presenters to solicit consulting work during any session listed in the
program. Session presenters are permitted to use materials they have created
and to refer to consulting work that they do, but neither materials nor
services may be offered for sale during the session. Pre-conference
workshops may receive permission to charge an additional fee for materials
(such as books), to be collected with the conference registration fee.Proposals may be submitted online beginning Tuesday, January 31st on the HBCUFDN website at http://www.HBCUFDN.org and will be due by midnight (Central) on Friday, March 16, 2012.
(Note: All proposals are blind-reviewed in accordance with the guidelines described
above.)
Contact
information
Session
title (no more than 10 words)
Session
abstract (no more than 100 words)
Designation
of the strand.
Please
select the type of session best suited for your proposal. Be sure that
there is a fit between what you
intend to accomplish and the type of session you
choose.
Session
description (no more than 500 words)
o State expected outcomes for
session participants.
o Outline the session activities
and plan for interaction (please model
exemplary teaching and learning
practices) For poster presentations,
focus on the manner in which you
plan to present your work rather than on
the type of interaction you anticipate.
This year, through the generous
support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, we will be able to offer more than
fifty travel grants of $1,000 each for the Annual Conference. Awards
will be competitive and based on the quality of proposals."
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