Law and Policy for Colleges and Universities (LPCU) Conference

Posted on October 1, 2018August 9, 2019

We hope this email finds you well. As you may know, our Center is preparing to host the Law and Policy for Colleges and Universities (LPCU) Conference on Friday, October 26, 2018 at USC. While the conference is designed for higher education and student affairs professionals and leaders, we have been able to create partial scholarships for students who may be interested in attending.

Since EdD students are also working professionals, we think this information will be particularly interesting for your students. We hope that you can pass along the following information to your students (pasted below our signature).

Thank you for your continued support!

Best,

Alex Atashi and Bo Lee

Project Specialists

Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice

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The Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice is excited to announce partial student scholarships for their upcoming Law and Policy for Colleges and Universities (LPCU) Conference. The conference is scheduled to take place on Friday, October 26, 2018 at USC from approximately 8:30am-6pm. Keynote speakers include Tarana Burke, founder of the ‘me too.’ Movement.

Visit bit.ly/usclpcustudentscholarship for full details and information to apply by Monday, October 8.

Please contact Alex Atashi and Bo Lee at socialjustice@usc.edu with any questions.

Scholars of Color Research Lecture Series

Posted on September 28, 2018August 9, 2019

CRESST conference

Posted on September 28, 2018August 9, 2019

Conference schedule may be viewed at https://cresstcon.org/schedule-page/

Conference Overview:

Please join us for CRESSTCON’18, October 1-2 at UCLA’s Luskin Center for a conference unlike any other. This year’s conference theme is Learning Together: Building Partnerships to Accelerate Excellence and Equity. CRESSTCON unites educators, researchers, and developers from around the world with a common vision of sharing our best practices and improving the academic outcomes of every student.

At CRESSTCON’18 you will engage with an unparalleled group of leaders in the fields of educational technology, policy, and economics and participate in discussions on the latest global trends and opportunities in education. Our keynote speakers this year are Bror Saxberg, Vice President, Learning Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, the Wasserman Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Our renowned speakers will share their experiences of overcoming roadblocks, building bridges, and working with other practitioners to accelerate excellence and equity. Please see our schedule of events for more details.

Fall Book Club at USC Rossier

Posted on September 28, 2018August 9, 2019

Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,

I’m happy to announce the next book in our USC Rossier Book Club: There There, by Tommy Orange.

Our school-wide discussion will take place in the Radisson Ballroom on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, from noon until 2 pm. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by Oct. 12.

Books can be picked up in WPH 1100 beginning Tuesday, Sept. 25, 10 am–noon or 2 pm–4 pm, Tues–Fri, until Fri., Oct. 12. Please note that your acceptance of the book indicates your commitment to read it and participate in our discussion!

We also welcome remote participants to take part in the discussion. Please provide a mailing address if you will need the book shipped to you. A link to the virtual classroom will be provided closer to the date of the Book Club.

Part of the Rossier Way

We launched our book club last spring as part of a new initiative, “The Rossier Way,” which is designed to cultivate a culture of caring and support among faculty, staff and students. I am hosting the book clubs in partnership with Darline Robles, our Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion.

Our goal is to select a work of fiction that helps us explore themes relevant to our mission to advance educational equity. This book was among the many thoughtful suggestions submitted by faculty and staff at our August Kick-Off.

There There is, according to its publisher, Knopf Doubleday, “a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.”

Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, Calif., and currently lives in Angels Camp, Calif.

We look forward to a lively discussion in November.

Sincerely,

Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D.

Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean

USC Rossier School of Education

Waite Phillips Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031

Asst: hardison@usc.edu

213.740.5756 (office)

213.821.2158 (fax)

Research Info Sessions

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

Greetings EdL students!

Please see information below regarding upcoming library research info sessions and a call for participants from some of USC’S librarians.

Library Crash Course 2.0: Midterm Edition

Do you have a research paper coming up? Don’t know how to print, borrow a laptop, or find a book in the library? Have no clue what librarians can help you with?

Come learn – as a refresher or for the first time – how the Libraries can support you in your midterm work. This workshop will have two stations: resources, and spaces and services. Come to one or both!

Meet in the Doheny Memorial Library lobby. Open to everyone!

Call for Participants – Perceptions of Reference Services (Focus Groups)

Three librarians are recruiting participants for a research study on perceptions of reference services. This IRB approved study aims to gather feedback, in the form of qualitative data, about research help from current undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at USC in order to evaluate and possibly revise the current models used by USC Libraries’ to connect students with research help. Feedback data will be gathered via focus groups, and used to improve reference services. Each participant will receive a $25 Amazon gift card and the focus group sessions will be conducted in late October and early November.

We would like to speak with current undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in on-campus and online programs.
Interested students can fill out this form: bit.ly/RefServices

Thank you,

Elizabeth Galoozis

Melissa Miller

Melanee Vicedo

USC Rossier’s first Centennial Lecture on November 14, 2018

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,

I am delighted to announced that John King, president and CEO of The Education Trust, will deliver USC Rossier’s first Centennial Lecture this fall.

A former social studies teacher and middle school principal who was born into a family of educators, Dr. King has had a remarkably distinguished career. He was the first African American and Puerto Rican to serve as New York State Education Commissioner. He later went to Washington, D.C., to serve in President Barack Obama’s administration first as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education and then as U.S. Secretary of Education.

Dr. King’s personal and professional experiences reflect many of the core principles that are fundamental to USC Rossier’s mission, including an emphasis on equity, innovation and civic engagement in PreK-12 settings and beyond.

It is a privilege to welcome Dr. King to USC for our first Centennial Lecture on November 14, at noon, in Bovard Auditorium. This event is part of USC Rossier’s year-long commemoration of our 100^th anniversary as a school of education, during which we will celebrate the achievements of the past and look ahead to the challenges and opportunities the future holds. To learn more and get involved, please visit http://rossier100.usc.edu.

An invitation and link to RSVP will be sent out next week. I hope you’ll be able to join us for an enlightening and inspiring lecture and discussion.

Sincerely,

Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D.

Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean

USC Rossier School of Education

Waite Phillips Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031

Asst: hardison@usc.edu

213.740.5756 (office)

213.821.2158 (fax)

Continuing the Dialogue on Engaging Equity at Rossier.

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

Dear USC Rossier Community,

I’m pleased to share information on two sessions offered exclusively to the USC Rossier community by the USC Race and Equity Center as part of a program called “Continuing the Dialogue on Engaging Equity at Rossier.”

USC Rossier Session 1:
Monday, Oct. 8, 2018

Vijay Pendakur, EdD
SOS B49
2:30 PM–3:30 PM

USC Rossier Session 2:
Monday, Nov. 5, 2018

Minh Tran, PhD
WPH 201
2:30 PM–3:30 PM

RSVP: USC Rossier: Continuing the Dialogue on Engaging Equity

If you are unable to attend in person, we will be streaming the audio conversation for remote participants.

We would also like to invite you to consider attending the sessions that take place prior to these Rossier discussions. Below are the two sessions that form the center’s Engaging Equity LIVE! program. Participants will include faculty, staff and students from the entire USC community. You are welcome to attend either or both sessions from each of the two dates offered.

Engaging Equity LIVE!

Sponsored by the USC Race and Equity Center, Engaging Equity LIVE! is led by expert faculty from the USC Equity Institutes. Take a dive into some of the most pressing racial equity issues in higher education today and gain skills, tools and strategies to enhance and embolden your practice—whether you identify as a staff member, administrator, faculty member or student!

Understanding Campus Unrest and Responding to Student Protest: How do staff, administrators and faculty effectively and meaningfully engage with student protest? How do we reframe student activism and protests as productive learning processes? Join us for a hands-on talk by a national expert to grapple with case studies and build practical skills and knowledge!

Monday, Oct. 8, 2018: Vijay Pendakur, Ed.D.

Noon–2 PM (Light lunch provided)

Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) 340

RSVP requested: http://bit.ly/RECStudentProtest

Navigating Invisible Racism in the Classroom: What are the academic and psychological consequences of classroom microaggressions and stereotype threat? Crafting a learning environment in which all learners can thrive is a skill. This interactive talk will prepare faculty and other attendees to identify and combat racial stereotype threat and microaggressions in the classroom.

Monday, Nov, 5, 2018: Minh Tran, Ph.D

Noon–2 PM (Light lunch provided)

MRF 340
RSVP requested: http://bit.ly/RECInvisibleRacism

Unfortunately, the center is unable to share these two sessions online; participation is limited to in-person attendance. For more information, contact Sumun L. Pendakur, EdD, at pendakur@usc.edu or visit race.usc.edu.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D.

Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean

USC Rossier School of Education

Waite Phillips Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031

Asst: hardison@usc.edu

213.740.5756 (office)

213.821.2158 (fax)

Join us as we kick off the Jacobson Family Sustainable Impact Lecture Series!

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

Join us as we kick off the Jacobson Family Sustainable Impact Lecture Series with a conversation about mental health, society, and how radically affordable technologies can make mental health treatment more scalable and successful.

Wednesday, Sept. 5
12:30–2 p.m.
The Forum, TCC 450

Panelists:

Rich Pierson
Headspace Co-founder, CEO
Headspace launched its now-popular meditation app in 2012 and was named among the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company in 2017. With nearly 30 million users in 190 countries, Headspace is delivering on its mission to improve happiness and health around the world.
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Cristina Poindexter
Maslo Co-founder, Head of Product
Maslo builds personified AI technology that interacts with playfulness and empathy. The voice-journaling digital companion finds smart patterns in what users share and reflects insights back to them for personal growth.
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Ramsay Brown
Boundless Mind Co-founder, COO
Boundless Mind is a behavioral and persuasive tech company disrupting America’s addiction to technology. By combining AI, neuroscience and machine learning, Boundless Mind makes apps and software more habit-forming to promote education, health and social welfare.

RSVP: techforsociety.eventbrite.com

You’re invited to Student Conversations at the University Park Campus

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

August 27, 2018

Dear USC Students,

Welcome to the University of Southern California. Whether this is your first year at USC or you are returning, we are delighted to count you among the Trojan Family.

The purpose of this letter is to invite USC students to attend one of our “Student Conversations”. Please join me and my colleagues in Student Health Services and the Division of Student Affairs for a town hall-style forum. The forum is intended for students and administrators to share important updates, discuss concerns, and ask questions on a broad range of topics important to students.

Student Conversations at the University Park Campus

Thursday, August 30^th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM in Tutor Campus Center room 227
Wednesday, September 5^th from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM in Tutor Campus Center room 227
Tuesday, September 11^th from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in Tutor Campus Center Ballroom A

Student Conversations at the Health Sciences Campus

Tuesday, September 4^th from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Mayer Auditorium

Your feedback is important to us. I hope you can join us. These discussions are intended for USC students only.

Sincerely,

Ainsley Carry, Ed. D., MBA

Vice President for Student Affairs

Fall 2018 USC Safe Ride Program presented by Lyft

Posted on August 28, 2018August 28, 2018

Welcome back, USC students! As the Fall semester gets started, we’re happy again to partner with Lyft to provide the USC Safe Ride program. Program parameters remain the same as last year – if a pre-registered student uses the Lyft app to travel within USC Safe Ride boundaries between the hours of 7:00pm and 2:00am, seven nights a week, then USC will pay for that ride.

Specific details and reminders for the Fall 2018 program appear below:

Invites will be sent from this email address to each student this Thursday, August 16^th. Do not share your invite – it is unique for each user and can only be activated once!
Program resumes on Saturday, August 18^th at 7:00pm
How it works

o Activate your account through the link in the invite

o Take a SHARED ride in USC Safe Ride boundaries between the hours of 7:00pm-2:00am

o If your ride qualifies it will say FREE

o Program works with credits that apply to your ride and you’ll get a 0.00 receipt. Credits cover you and the extra charge for 1 friend.

NOTE: Credits don’t cover high primetime fares, cancellations, or tips! These charges will be the student’s responsibility.

o Hours may change for special events, such as football games; watch for notifications or check our website (www.usc.edu/parking) for announcements

o A flyer detailing the program is attached, along with a map of the approved pick-up and drop-off Rideshare Zones. Please note pick-ups and drop-offs are not allowed at any time along the length of 34^th Street within campus, nor at the Pardee Entrance (Entrance 2) off Exposition Blvd.

Please review the attachments, and look for our program invite email on August 16^th. Please let us know if you have any questions.