Dillard University CTLAT Blog

Thursday, March 8, 2012

LALINC Spring 2012 Deans/Directors Meeting Agenda

I am writing to remind you of the annual spring meeting for LALINC which is important for Library Deans and Directors to attend. The meeting will be held March 16 in Alexandria http://www.lsua.edu/About/Campus The Live Oak Room is in the Student Center.
We will be reviewing committee reports, discussing LOUIS funding, and electing new officers. Attached is a draft of the agenda. (LOUIS will be providing lunch.)

Suzanne Martin
Head Librarian
Fletcher Technical Community College
310 St. Charles Street
Houma, LA. 70360
985-858-5744
suzanne.martin@ftcc.edu

LALINC Spring Membership Meeting
Live Oak Conference Room, Louisiana State University at Alexandria
Alexandria, LA
Friday, March 16, 2012
9:00-9:30 Registration. Meeting begins at 9:30 a.m.

AGENDA
March 16, 2012 LSU-Alexandria
9am

1. Call to order-Suzanne Martin, Chair
2. Adoption of Agenda
3. Approval of Fall 2011 Membership Meeting Minutes and Quorum (call the count)-Denise Repman
4. Introductions
5. LOUIS report-Sara Zimmerman
6. Committee Reports
a. Research and Development-Chair, Lora Amsberryaugier
b. Information Literacy-Chair, Jessica Hutchings
c. Collection and E-Resources-Chair, Anthony Fonseca
7. Election of new officers
a. Vice-chair/chair-elect
b. Members-at-large
8. Old Business
a. Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement
9. New Business
a. Vote for change in bylaws regarding change of name to LALINC Board from LALINC Executive Committee
b. OCLC Report-Debbie Johnson-Houston
c. Emerging issues
10. Schedule next meeting
11. Adjournment

Council for Higher Education Accreditation 2012 Summer Workshop

Council for Higher Education Accreditation

One Dupont Circle NW

Suite 510

Washington, DC 20036

(tel) 202-955-6126

(fax) 202-955-6129

chea@chea.org

Mark Your Calendar!

CHEA 2012 Summer Workshop

June 21 - 22, 2012

Washington Marriott Hotel

1221 22nd Street NW

Washington, DC

Program and Registration Information

Coming Soon

A national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. For more information, visit CHEA's Website at www.chea.org

Dillard University Writing Proficiency Examination Grades Spring 2012

Students,

The Writing Proficiency Examination Grades are now available via Campus Web. Please be reminded: "P" means you passed the exam. "NC" means you failed the exam. Students who registered for ENG 199 but did not take the exam, "failed" the exam.

Have a safe break.

Best,

Chandra Tyler Mountain, PhD

Associate Professor of English
College of Arts and Sciences
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122
office: Cook 149D
phone: 504.816.4707
fax: 504.816.4381
alt. email: prof.mountain@gmail.com

CPRC Columbia University New York Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2012

http://www.slideshare.net/ccharles/cprc-columbia-university-new-york-fragile-families-summer-data-workshop-2012

Columbia University is accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held July 11-13, 2012, in New York City. The workshop, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). The FFCWS is an ongoing national survey, which follows a birth cohort of urban children and their (mostly) unmarried parents, providing information about the predictors of healthy child development, including parental capabilities, circumstances, and relationships, as well as environmental and public policy factors.

The workshop is targeted toward young scholars from various biomedical and social science disciplines, including advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, residents whose work involves secondary data analysis, and junior faculty. Applicants must possess basic quantitative data analysis skills. Ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. About 25-30 applicants will be selected. Travel costs for out-of-town participants will be reimbursed up to $750, including hotel which will be booked directly by Columbia.

Additional information about the Fragile Families study is available at http://www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/index.asp.

The online application and further information about the workshop are available at http://conferences.cdrs.columbia.edu/cprc.

Application deadline is March 18, 2012.

Sincerely,
M.K. Babcock
Program Manager
Columbia Population Research Center
(212) 851-2384
mkb2109@columbia.edu

DILLARD UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE FACULTY GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARCH 7, 2012

EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE FACULTY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

4:00 P.M.

PSB 131-135

Lovell Agwaramgbo, Ph.D., President of the Senate

Presiding

1. Call to order (1 minute)

2. Invocation: Rev. Gail E. Bowman (2 minutes)

3. Adoption of the Agenda (1 minute)

4. Office of the President: Dr. James Lyons: Status of the University Budget

5. Faculty Handbook: Dr. Darwish: Comments &Discussions on the Faculty Handbook

6. Adjournment

Dillard University & ACLU: A Conference on Race & Reproductive Justice March 21, 2012

http://www.slideshare.net/ccharles/du-aclu-a-conference-on-race-reproductive-justice-march-21-2012

Dillard University Academic Regalia Spring 2012

Faculty who need to purchase or rent academic regalia for Honors Convocation and Commencement Exercises are to pay Ms. Lucy in the Campus Bookstore.

Thank you.

Cynthia M. Carter

Administrative Specialist
Office of Academic Affairs
Dillard University
504.816.4662 (ph)
504.816.4144 (fax)
ccarter@dillard.edu
www.dillard.edu

Fisk University News: Harlem Renaissance and Other Historic Photographs Being Preserved with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/LYRASIS Grants

http://www.fisk.edu/newsandevents/news/12-03-02/Harlem_Renaissance_and_Other_Historic_Photographs_Being_Preserved_with_Andrew_W_Mellon_Foundation_LYRASIS_Grants.aspx

March 2, 2012

Over 2,600 images in the Carl Van Vechten, Archival and Manuscript and Photograph Collections at Fisk University’s John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library are being preserved with a $61,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Photographic Preservation Project. Awarded by LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals, this grant will be used for the treatment, restoration and preservation of photographs including Aaron Douglas, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S. Johnson and Arna Bontemps, all key figures in the Harlem Renaissance.

Since 2008, LYRASIS has granted more than $128,000 from the Mellon Foundation to the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. In addition to the restoration work of Harlem Renaissance photographs, historically-significant portraits of notable black musicians and entertainers including Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith and Marian Anderson taken by Carl Van Vechten, Fisk’s early buildings, early graduating classes, W.E.B. DuBois, 19th century photo albums of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and more will be restored. Many items had never previously been treated, preserved or restored.

“Our photographs document important aspects of African American history and culture, with emphasis on Fisk,” said Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, Dean of the Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. “Funding for this significant project has been used to engage consultants to advise and train staff to handle, stabilize, treat and properly store many of the at-risk photographs and documents in Special Collections and Archives. This ensures these materials are available to researchers. We know the importance of preservation and welcome an opportunity to be a part of this growing national trend.”

For more information or a complete list of items being restored and preserved, please contact the Office of Communications and Public Relations at 615-329-8767.

FREE UB Web Seminar Series: Is room-based lecture capture better for 21st century learning?

Is room-based lecture capture better for 21st century learning?
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 1pm, ET

In 2009, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business opened the doors to a new era of learning designed to enhance the digital culture that defines student life. Every room in the state-of-the-art 27,000 square foot building – from the large auditoriums to the intimate collaborative spaces – was equipped to support the most seamless use of integrated technologies while becoming a model of student learning efficiencies.

Now integral in every function of the school, room-based lecture capture technology is used not only for recording traditional classroom instruction, but also webcasting interviews with The New York Times, faculty panels and even recruitment with prospective students.

Join Sean Brown, vice president of education at Sonic Foundry, and his guest Edward Adams, chief technology officer at University of Michigan Ross School of Business, for an inside look at the decision-making process that helped the school get more faculty, classes and programs online faster with room-based video streaming.

The presenters will take your questions live, and discuss:

How to determine if a room-based webcasting solution for streaming video production and distribution is right for you?
Why now is the time to embrace digital media, recording everything from lecture capture and team projects to special events and panel discussions?
Ways to best support your school's internal processes by integrating lecture capture with existing technology infrastructure.
Why room-based lecture capture proves easier to use for faculty and other academic staff, and scales faster as a result?
What should a streamlined quickstart interface look like, what features should it include for faculty choice and control, and what impact does it have on AV support, staffing and training?

Who will benefit:
Chief information and technology officers, academic deans and department heads, IT directors, facility managers, instructional technologists. Anyone may attend.

Critical Insights. Timely Information. Free Registration
University Business produces web seminars on topics of special interest to higher education leaders. Moderated by UB's Web Seminar Editor, JD Solomon, each web seminar features presentations by higher education leaders and industry experts. These online events are underwritten by our sponsors so that you may view them for free.

Speakers:

Edward Adams - Chief Technology Officer, University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Sean Brown - Vice President of Education, Sonic Foundry.

Free Trees for Entergy Customers!

Dear Community Partner,

As a part of our continued commitment to the environment, Entergy has teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation to provide free trees to Entergy residential customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Orleans and Texas. These trees will help customers save up to 20% on summer energy bills while also helping to save the environment by providing air quality improvements, storm water reduction and carbon sequestration.

Entergy customers can reserve up to three free trees by visiting www.entergy.com/arborday. The simple online process allows you to:

1.       Map your house
2.       Show you the right trees for your area
3.       Help you find the best place to plant them
4.       Tell you how much you can expect to save
5.       Reserve up to three 2-4 foot trees to be delivered to your house, compliments of Entergy

Please help us get the word out about this exciting opportunity by passing on this information to all of your contacts, including volunteers, supporters, stakeholders etc. With your help, we can engage individuals in this tree-planting initiative and demonstrate that small actions can have a profound impact on the environment and our wallets.

Thank you,

Amanda Mills
Associate Analyst, Corporate Social Responsibility
Entergy Services, Inc.
(504) 576-3374

Welcome to the Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology Blog!

The Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology (DUCTLAT) http://www.ductlat.blogspot.com/ is essential in helping faculty effectively manage technology on and off campus. An important aspect of this initiative is achieved by bringing groups of faculty members together to learn the technology necessary to develop electronic resources for their courses and themselves, while planning and beginning the development of shared curricular materials. Cultivating faculty success at all levels reinforces the University's commitment to build premier faculty learning communities. All faculty, deans and academic administrators play a critical role in creating competitive and productive academic units in which expectations for faculty performance are clearly articulated and professional achievements are recognized and rewarded.