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Dillard to Host Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Oral Arguments on Feb. 6 in Ortique Mock Trial Center
Dillard
to Host Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
Oral
Arguments on Feb. 6 in Ortique Mock Trial Center
(New
Orleans) In honor of Black History Month, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
will hold court at Dillard University to hear oral arguments on five pending
cases. The session is part of an ongoing effort to educate students and the
public about the work of the appellate court. The session will convene at 10
a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the Justice Revius O. Ortique Jr. Mock Trial
Center. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judges Dennis Bagneris, Terri Love and
Madeleine Landrieu will hear the oral arguments.
“Justice
Ortique was a judicial trailblazer, civil rights activist, and mentor to many
judges, and we are honored to hold oral arguments at a location that recognizes
him and his contributions to Louisiana law and public service,” Love said.
The late
Ortique was the first African-American elected to serve on the Louisiana
Supreme Court. As an attorney and judge, he engaged in many landmark decisions.
The Justice Revius O. Ortique Jr. Mock Trial Center grew out of Dillard
University’s commitment to undergraduate students who seek careers in law,
government service, criminal justice, social work, public policy, and
environmental justice.
In advance
of the oral arguments, Love and attorney Adria Kimbrough, wife of Dillard
President Walter Kimbrough, hosted an information session on Jan. 31 at noon in
the West Wing of Kearny Hall. The information session provided an
overview of the appellate court process to students and the public and gave
them an opportunity to ask questions about the process. Students and the public
are invited to attend the oral arguments on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal previously held court at Dillard University in
February 2011.
2013 POD Conference: Invitation to Review Proposals
Greetings!
Would you be willing to serve
as a proposal reviewer for the 2013 POD Conference in Pittsburgh? The
success of the conference is due in large part to the POD community
volunteering its time and energy to diligently, thoughtfully, and fairly review
its membership’s work. Because of the important and time-sensitive
nature of the review process, please consider carefully the following points
before volunteering:
- The proposal review period is two weeks long, running from March 9th to March 24th. All reviews must be completed by this deadline.
- Depending on the total number of reviewers, you will be assigned no more than 6 proposals. We will take care to assign you only proposals which match your areas of interest and expertise.
The questionnaire simply asks
you to provide your current contact information and to identify topic areas of
interest to you. This information will help us match your strengths
and expertise to the most appropriate proposals.
If you have any questions about
this process, please feel free to contact Program Co-Chairs Allison Boye (allison.p.boye@ttu.edu) and Jake Glover (jiglover@fhsu.edu). We would be happy to help
you with the survey or any questions you might have about the review process.
Thank you!
Campus Technology Article...Research: Traditional Outreach Still Has Impact in College Recruiting
Research: Traditional Outreach Still Has Impact in
College Recruiting
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By Dian Schaffhauser
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01/17/13
Money talk and institutional reputation dominates student
choice in deciding which colleges and universities would make a good fit for
them. According to recent research done by two companies that offer marketing
and recruiting services to institutions, the top three characteristics students
think about are schools that have "good scholarship and financial aid
packages," solid academic reputations behind the majors they're interested
in, and affordable tuition and fees.
"The
Super Investigator: Understanding Today's 'Always On' Prospective Student,"
available for download with registration, also examines the impact of online
marketing channels on school-related decision-making. While mechanisms that
might be referred to as "traditional"--direct marketing through email
and mail, guidance counselor advice, friends, college Web sites, campus tours,
and search engines--still dominate the college search process, social media is
playing an evolving role as well. For example, 40 percent of students reported
that they use Facebook to learn more about college choices, 21 percent use
YouTube, 17 percent use Google+, and nine percent use Twitter. Just over a
third of respondents (37 percent) said they have used social media to
"engage" with a college.
According to one teen respondent, "We are constantly
on the computer and nosing around in other people's business, so maybe we could
add nosing into the college's business. I would give the quick facts about the
school online with easy access. A lot of time you have to search through a
college's Web site to find that information and if it is not easy to find, I
give up." Another student suggested that the reverse should not be
true--that schools shouldn't use social media to learn more about prospects:
"We have a new tradition at our high school. When we hit senior year, we
all change our Facebook names so colleges can't spy on us."
Mobile access to information is coming to the forefront
too. Forty-five percent of students reported visiting a college Web site on a
mobile device. One in 10 had downloaded an app from a college to their device.
The research was performed by Lipman Hearne,
a marketing and communications company that focuses on higher education, and Cappex.com, which runs a Web
site to introduce students to prospective colleges based on their interests and
profiles. The companies collected responses from 11,244 students who had
previously registered on Cappex. Those included college-bound sophomores,
juniors, and seniors from the United States and other countries, as well as a
small number of enrolled college students thinking about transferring and adult
learners.
One interesting finding in the research was the sizable
number of "stealth applicants," students who research schools and
even visit campuses, but without revealing who they are until they submit an
application. Nearly a quarter of respondents fall into this category. Said
Lipman Hearne Chairman Tom Abrahamson, "Stealth applicants apply to colleges
under the radar of admissions teams. Their behavior is important because their
unexpected applications can complicate schools' admissions planning and
projections."
Another group of students were classified as "super
investigators," digital natives who are quite aggressive in their
self-directed research. Fifty-five percent of graduating seniors belong to this
camp, doing daily research using a multitude of resources, both online and
print.
Noted Lipman Hearne Senior Vice President Mark Nelson,
"The truly social aspect of the search--word of mouth and advice from
friends, parents, and other influencers--is...incredibly effective at driving
students to explore a college further. Parents represent an untapped marketing
opportunity for colleges. And while social media doesn't seem to drive students
to action, it can't be overlooked. More than half the students use it to learn
about colleges, and it's where they are talking to their friends. Schools need
to monitor comments made online and make sure the buzz is positive."
Those informational efforts need to include shifting from
"providing basic information about colleges to more personalized offerings
and engagement opportunities for students," added Chris Long, Cappex
president.
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and
business for a number of publications. Contact her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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Tomorrow's Professor: Optimizing Your Writing Process: Write Nonlinearly
Perfectionists tend to see their projects as long strings
of words?and there?s a natural tendency, when you have that viewpoint, to want
to start at the beginning of a piece and write straight through till ?The
End".
And now you can use a visualization tool I call the
?writercopter,? a mental helicopter that can transport you to any place in your
piece. The moment you feel you?ve taken a particular patch of writing as far as
you can, hop onto your copter and take it to another section that looks
enticing. Work there until you run dry, and then reboard and hop to another
part.
What if no part looks appealing? Try writing about the
piece, since your alienation from it is probably rooted in the fact that you
either need to think it through more or are trying to force it in the wrong
direction (see Section 5.9). In the unlikely event that doesn?t help, set the
piece aside and let it marinate while you work on something else.
Writing might sometimes be difficult, but it should never
be unpleasant; if it is unpleasant?if you?re feeling frustrated, bored or
stuck?that?s not an indication of any deficiency on your part, but simply the
signal to move to another part of the project, or another project. While it?s
okay to practice ?writing past the wall,? i.e., sticking with a difficult
section a bit longer than comfortable, don?t perfectionistically dig in your
heels and become an antagonist to yourself and your process.
The writercopter technique is similar to that used by the
late, great, and famously prolific author Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited
more than 500 books:
?What if you get a writer?s block?? (That?s a favorite
question.) I say, ?I don?t ever get one precisely because I switch from one
task to another at will. If I?m tired of one project, I just switch to
something else which, at the moment, interests me more.? [From his memoir, In
Joy Still Felt.]
Note Asimov?s absolute sense of freedom and dominion
(authority!) over his work?expressed not in grandiose terms, but the simple
ability to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. And, of course, the total
lack of blame, shame, compulsion, and perfectionism.
Nonlinear writing obviously goes hand in hand with
freewriting; using the techniques together should powerfully speed your
writing. What?s more, the process is accelerative, since the more easy parts of
your project you finish, the easier the hard parts will get. (By writing
?around? the hard parts, you?re illuminating them and solving problems related
to them.)
You can combine nonlinear writing with Anee Lamott?s
famous ?one-inch picture frame? technique from Bird by Bird to get through even
the toughest piece of writing. To combat overwhelm, Lamott reminds herself
that:
All I have to do is to write down as much as I can see
through a one-inch picture frame ? All I?m going to do right now, for example,
is write that one paragraph that sets the story in my hometown, in the late
fifties, when the trains were still running.
I myself have gotten through very tough patches of
writing (meaning, sections where I felt a lot of resistance to the
writing?because the patches themselves are neither easy nor hard, but just
writing) by switching back and forth between the difficult patch and an easier
one, doing ?one-inch picture frame?-sized pieces of the tough section and
longer stretches of the easy one. The easy patches actually become a reward, in
this context, which is in itself a lovely development: writing not as chore,
but reward.
Take these techniques to their limit, as I assume Asimov
did, and you develop a very light touch around your work. You?re hopping
everywhere in the writercopter, not in a distracted way but in a focused,
effective way?and the writing is almost never a struggle, and the words just
pile up.
The alternative is you struggle with grim determination
to write the piece linearly. And so you write a page or two and ? wham! You?re
at a hard part and you stop dead. And because you don?t know what else to do,
you just keep throwing yourself against that wall?until procrastination steps
in to ?save? you from your predicament.
Tales of Space and Time
Besides seeing projects as complex in space, the prolific
also see them as complex in time. While novice writers see writing as ?just
writing,? the prolific see it as a process consisting of these or similar
stages:
1. Conceptualization (a.k.a. note-taking or ?noodling
around?)
2. Planning and outlining (a little more structured than
above)
3. Research
4. First Draft
5. Revision(s)
6. Final Draft
7. Submission(s)
8. Cash the Check (for freelance and other writers who
get paid)
Note how the stage most people think comes first?First
Draft?actually appears halfway down. A major cause of unproductivity and blocks
is that the writer omits, or skimps on, the earlier stages?which means she is
trying to write something she doesn?t sufficiently comprehend.
Trying to write a first draft without first spending
adequate time on stages 1-3 is like planting a garden without preparing the
soil, or building a house atop a shaky foundation: a risky proposition at best.
Sure, once in a while a piece will just seem to write itself. But that?s
usually because we?ve either thought about it a lot or figured out a link
between it and other topics we?ve thought a lot about. So the early stages
were, in fact, done, only perhaps at a different time. (Also, the confidence that
comes from writing something familiar helps us resist perfectionism.)
Obviously, the stages differ from project to project, and
writer to writer. Some projects demand extensive research, others only a
little. Some writers create detailed outlines, while others work from the seat
of their pants (the famous ?plotters? versus ?pantsers? divide). And some
writers do the stages mostly linearly, while others jazzily intermingle them.
Whatever system works for you, and the particular project you?re working on, is
the right one.
It?s helpful to remember that most of us enjoy working on
some stages more than others, and those are the stages we tend to get stuck on
if we?re prone to procrastination. That?s procrastination as a toxic mimic of
productive work (Section 1.8), and it happens especially with first draft,
research, and revision.
Conversely, many writers dislike, or are afraid of,
certain stages and try to avoid them. These are, typically, the first draft and
submission, as well as marketing and other business ?chores.?
You probably know if you?re overworking or underworking a
stage due to procrastination, but if you?re unsure, ask your mentors. If the
diagnosis is, indeed, procrastination, use timed exercises (Section 2.14) to
overcome your fears.
Armed with the knowledge of the stages of a writing
project, you can now use your writercopter to move not just through space (the
landscape of your project), but time: more specifically, back to a prior stage
whenever you?re stuck. I recommend moving back to conceptualization, planning,
outlining, or drafting, but not research because it is a frequent vehicle for
procrastination.
Another important productivity technique is to identify
the easiest parts of your project so that, when all else fails, you can work on
them. When, during the writing of this book, I was severely distracted or
demotivated, I worked on the bibliography. Why not? It had to get done, and
doing it empowered me and helped me get re-motivated as soon as possible.
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